Beautiful Orchestrations
O.T. Fan | Springboro, Ohio USA | 04/08/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This lesser-known Dizzy Gillespie recordings is one of his greatest. Only recently available on CD, it's a must for all Dizzy fans. The orchestrations are superb, and most of the tunes won't leave your head for days, Highly recommended!"
The "New Wave" was the "Bossa Craze"
Jazzcat | Genoa, Italy Italy | 06/30/2009
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This album from Dizzy is recently been re released for the Japanese market, lucky dudes. It's splendid! I'm not japanese, but I'm a jazz connossoir enough to have bought this gem. The album is from the sixties, it's a Philips, and the New wave of the time was the bossa nova craze started by the collaboration between Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto. Dizzy, who has always been interested in exotic rhythmn catched the idea and started recording some stuff in the idiom,... here in the company of its camerade of the time, argentinean pianist Lalo Schifrin. The line up comprehend Bola Sete on guitar, Leo Wright on the alto, Charlie Ventura on tenor and the common rhythmn section plus percussions. The music is delicious bossa/bop ,... the program is wonderful wonderful wonderful and it opens with a fabolous tune I didn't know,... "In a shanty..." truly phenomenal bossa music. There's space for some bossa standards such as "manha de Carnaval", "No more blues", "One note samba" and a jazz standard "Gee babe". But all the album is truly WONDERFUL, a fantastic album from Dizzy at the top of his game. Buy it with confidence even if the ticket is the japanese price. You won't regret a single penny believe me. A stellar album!"
Track Listings (8) - Disc #1