Gillespiana/Carnegie Hall Concert

Artist: Dizzy Gillespie Label: Polygram Records Category: Music Average customer rating: Format: Live Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 731451980923 EAN: 0731451980923 ASIN: B0000046R7 Release Date: 1993-10-19

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3. The Indispensable Mr. Gillespie
4. The 15 Best Albums Ever

Tracks:

1. Prelude
2. Blues
3. Panamerica
4. Africana
5. Toccata
6. Manteca
7. This is the Way
8. Ool Ya Koo
9. Kush
10. Tunisian Fantasy

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Customer Reviews:

I think this is too improvized.......2004-01-28

However, on this record, I think a lot was
totally improvized, and perhaps, politically
motivated, perhaps inspired by social or
political worries or pressures felt at the
time it was recorded, for example.

There's quite little jazz, in the jazz standards
sense of the term, and a lot more improvization,
not latino beats or even innovative Charlie Parker
or Dizzy-style creations, but bizarre, Austral
Africa beats and rhythms, that have nothing
to do with North America, Cuba or even Central
American beats. I don't object to a rabid passion
of African rhythms shown here, it's just that I didn't
expect standard jazz to improvize almost entirely, on
one album, on African beats alone. And I do mean
improvize ... and poorly, at that. Perhaps Dizzy at
the time, to strengthen African American civil rights
felt he needed to release an album underlining African
rhythms to bring attention to political motivations
or tensions.

But, essentially, this 2CD is boring, a bit embarassing,
and a waste from the failed improvization by the orchestra.

Gillespiana! with Lalo Schifrin arrangements.......2001-11-19

About five months after the suite was recorded, most of the band assembled again for a March '61 concert in Carnegie Hall. Most of the tunes are familiar parts of Dizzy's book, but Schifrin's arrangements again give the pieces a little special lustre.

Some other more recent reissues may have overshadowed this CD (reissued in '93), but it is no mere minor curiosity. It's some of the best music I've heard by Diz, and should be part of any representative collection of his work.

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