Dizzy Gillespie - The Chronological Classics: 5 Albums (1945-1954)

Trumpet virtuoso and bop revolutionary whose desire to innovate helped invent and define the musical vocabulary for an entire genre.

Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis' emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated. Somehow, Gillespie could make any "wrong" note fit, and harmonically he was ahead of everyone in the 1940s, including Charlie Parker. Unlike Bird, Dizzy was an enthusiastic teacher who wrote down his musical innovations and was eager to explain them to the next generation, thereby insuring that bebop would eventually become the foundation of jazz.

Dizzy Gillespie was also one of the key founders of Afro-Cuban (or Latin) jazz, adding Chano Pozo's conga to his orchestra in 1947, and utilizing complex poly-rhythms early on. The leader of two of the finest big bands in jazz history, Gillespie differed from many in the bop generation by being a masterful showman who could make his music seem both accessible and fun to the audience. With his puffed-out cheeks, bent trumpet (which occurred by accident in the early '50s when a dancer tripped over his horn), and quick wit, Dizzy was a colorful figure to watch. A natural comedian, Gillespie was also a superb scat singer and occasionally played Latin percussion for the fun of it, but it was his trumpet playing and leadership abilities that made him into a jazz giant.


Tracks:



Dizzy Gillespie - 1945 {CC, 888}

01. Something For You (2:32)
02. Worried Life Blues (2:54)
03. Empty Bed Blues - Part 1 (2:34)
04. Empty Bed Blues - Part 2 (2:35)
05. I Can't Get Started (3:07)
06. Good Bait (3:01)
07. Salted Peanuts (3:01)
08. Be-Bop (3:10)
09. What's The Matter Now (2:53)
10. I Want Every Bit Of It (3:12)
11. That's The Blues (2:58)
12. 4-F Blues (2:22)
13. Dream Of You (2:53)
14. Seventh Avenue (2:56)
15. Sorta Kinda (2:47)
16. Ooh, Ooh, My, My, Ooh, Ooh (2:47)
17. All Too Soon (2:57)
18. You're Only Happy When I'm Blue (3:14)
19. Ten Lessons With Timothy (2:42)
20. Groovin' High (1) (2:37)
21. Blue 'n Boogle (2:57)
22. Groovin' High (2) (2:42)
23. All The Things You Are (2:49)
24. Dizzy Atmoshpere (2:47)



Dizzy Gillespie - 1945-1946 {CC, 935}

01. Salt Peanuts (3:17)
02. Shaw 'Nuff (3:02)
03. Lover Man (3:26)
04. Hot House (3:13)
05. Night And Day (3:22)
06. Weeping Willie (3:17)
07. Everytime I Think Of You (2:37)
08. Baranco Boogie (3:08)
09. Diggin' Diz (2:52)
10. Confirmation (2:57)
11. Diggin' For Diz (2:54)
12. Dynamo A (3:01)
13. Dynamo B (3:00)
14. When I Grow Too Old To Dream (2:55)
15. 'Round About Midnight (2:52)
16. 52nd Street Theme (3:06)
17. Night In Tunisia (3:07)
18. Ol' Man Rebop (2:47)
19. Anthropology (2:39)
20. Who (2:54)
21. The Way You Look Tonight (2:45)
22. Why Do I Love You? (2:20)
23. All The Things You Are (2:15)



Dizzy Gillespie - 1946-1947 {CC, 986}

01. One Bass Hit - Part 1 (2:54)
02. Oop Bop Sh'Bam (3:02)
03. A Hand Fulla Gimme (3:02)
04. That's Earl Brother (2:42)
05. Our Delight (2:30)
06. Good Dues Blues (3:01)
07. One Bass Hit - Part 2 (2:55)
08. Ray's Idea (2:24)
09. Things To Come (2:49)
10. He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped (Alice Roberts vocal) (2:42)
11. He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped (Dizzy Gillespie vocal) (2:44)
12. For Hecklers Only (2:57)
13. Smokey Hollow Jump (3:01)
14. Boppin The Blues (3:06)
15. Moody Speaks (2:33)
16. I Waited For You (3:06)
17. Emanon (3:07)
18. Ow! (2:57)
19. Oopapada (3:13)
20. Two Bass Hit (2:48)
21. Stay On It (3:11)



Dizzy Gillespie - 1947-1949 {CC, 1102}

01. Algo Bueno (Woody 'n You) (3:02)
02. Cool Breeze (2:47)
03. Cubana Be (2:42)
04. Cubana Bop (3:16)
05. Manteca (3:08)
06. Good Bait (2:49)
07. Ool-Ya-Koo (2:53)
08. Minor Walk (2:46)
09. Guarachi Guaro (3:14)
10. Duff Capers (4:16)
11. Lover Come Back To Me (3:35)
12. I'm Be Boppin' Too (2:18)
13. Swedish Suite (2:58)
14. St. Louis Blues (3:11)
15. I Should Care (3:01)
16. That Old Black Magic (2:42)
17. Dizzier And Dizzier (Katy) (3:04)
18. Jump Did-Le-Ba (2:31)
19. Hey Pete, Let's Eat No' Meat (3:03)
20. Jumpin' With Symphony Sid (3:06)
21. If Love Is Trouble (3:47)
22. In The Land Of Oo-Bla-Dee (2:37)



Dizzy Gillespie - 1953-1954 (CC, 1424)

01. Impromptu (7:48)
02. Manteca Theme/Contraste/Jungla,Rhumba-Finale/6/8 (16:21)
03. Sugar Hips (5:16)
04. Hey Pete (5:08)
05. One Alone (3:02)
06. Money Honey (2:30)
07. Night in Tunisia (4:19)
08. Caravan (7:20)
09. Con Alma (5:05)
10. Blue Mood (3:29)
11. Rails (3:30)
12. Devil and the Fish (3:22)
13. Rumbola (3:25)