Dizzy Gillespie - All Star Sessions (CD) (US Import)
Dizzy Gillespie - All Star Sessions (CD) (US Import)
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Imported from the USA
- Artist
- Dizzy Gillespie
- EAN/UPC
- 5022810198024
- Product Type
- CD
- Label
- Avid Entertainment
- Cat No
- AMSC 980
- Released
- 2009
- Pressing
- UK
- Studio
- Avid UK
- Music Genre
- Jazz
- Styles
- Bop
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Description
Dizzy Gillespie — Three Classic Albums Plus (All Star Sessions)
Format: CD • Label: Avid Entertainment (AMSC 980) • Released: 2009 • Pressing: UK • Genre: Bop
Tracklist:
1-1. Wheatleigh Hall
1-2. Sumphin'
1-3. Con Alma
1-4. Haute Mon'
1-5. Steeplechase
1-6. Tour De Force
1-7a. Ballad Medley
1-7b. The Nearness Of You
1-7c. Moonlight In Vermont
1-7d. Summertime
2-1. Dizzy Atmosphere
2-2a. Ballad Medley
2-2b. Without A Word Of Warning
2-2c. Sweet Lorraine
2-2d. Love Walked In
2-2e. September Song
2-3a. Ballad Medley
2-3b. Stompin' At The Savoy
2-3c. This Time The Dream's On Me
2-3d. Time After Time
2-3e. Gone With The Wind
2-4. The Way You Look Tonight
2-5. Rio Pakistan
2-6. It's Only A Paper Moon
2-7. Purple Sounds
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About the artist
American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer.
Born October 21, 1917, Cheraw, South Carolina, USA
Died January 6, 1993, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Together with Charlie Parker he was the predominant figure in the development of bebop (bop), the earliest form of modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Jon Faddis and Chuck Mangione.
He was also one of the founders of Afro-Cuban (or Latin) jazz, adding Chano Pozo's conga to his orchestra in 1947, and utilizing complex poly-rhythms early on.
Career Highlights:
Awarded New Star Award from Esquire Magazine (1944)
Performs at first integrated concert in public school, Cheraw, SC (1959)
First jazz musician appointed by US department of State to undertake cultural mission (1972)
Awarded Handel Medallion from the City of New York (1972)
Received Paul Robeson Award from Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies (1972)
Performs at White House for President Carter and the Shah of Iran (1977)
Performs "Salt Peanuts" with President Carter at White House Jazz Concert (1978)
Inducted into Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame (1982)
Received Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (1989)
Received National Medal of Arts from President Bush (1989)
Received Duke Ellington Award from the society og Composers, Authors, and Publishers (1989)
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1989)
Received Kennedy Center Honors Award (1990)
Received fourteen honorary degrees, including Ph.D. Rutgers University (1972), Ph.D. Chicago Conservatory of Music (1978)
Awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording
Source: Discogs