TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.4061
Dizzy Gillespie Album Rankings
1
This CD features Dizzy Gillespie's second great big band at the peak of its powers.
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2
This CD has Dizzy Gillespie's classic Musicraft sides (all except "A Handfulla Gimme"), some of the most famous recordings of his long career.
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3
Although the sheer scope of this double-CD roundup of all of Dizzy's Victor sessions places it most obviously within the evolution of bebop, it is absolutely essential to Latin jazz collections as wel
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4
Dizzy Gillespie's globetrotting big band of 1956-1957 was one of his finest groups, a very exciting orchestra that at various times had such players as trumpeters Gillespie,Joe Gordon, andLee Morgan,
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5
An old recording from 1951, this album has been re-released on Columbia from the old Savoy/Regent recordings.
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6
Dizzy Gillespie is the greatest post-war musician never to make a truly great album. Before bebop, of course, musicians did not make "albums", but merely 78 RPM singles.
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7
The populist Dizzy Gillespie gets full rein in this lively, happy collection of tunes exploring rhythms and idioms from the Caribbean.
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8
Although trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie was in his prime in the mid-'60s, this CD (which is a straight reissue of an Impulse! LP) is a disappointment.
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9
This 1992 CD reissue from Japanese Denon is certainly filled with classic music, but this is a so-so, lightweight reissue (a reproduction of a '50s LP but obviously in a smaller size), because there a
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10
Dizzy Gillespie, who was nearing 72 years old at the time of this concert, headed one of his finest big bands during his later years, The United Nation Orchestra.
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11
Dizzy joined by some '80s young Turks including Branford Marsalis and pianist Kenny Kirkland .
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13
It's easy and perhaps unfair to take any later jazz album by a trendy, "hot" trumpeter and compare it to a classic like Have Trumpet, Will Excite!.
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14
Pairing Dizzy Gillespie with Cuban arranger/composer Chico O'Farrill produced a stunning session which originally made up the first half of a Norgran LP.
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21
Of all the trumpeters influenced by Diz, Jon Faddis has come closest to reaching the master's vertiginous heights, and this is a rare opportunity to hear them together.
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29
Here we have a summit meeting late in the careers of the pioneering titans of Afro-Cuban jazz -- Dizzy Gillespie fronting the Machito orchestra on trumpet, with Mario Bauza as music director, alto sa
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30
A ragtag of sessions from 1945, 1946, 1952, and 1953.
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41
Classics #1102 focuses on the explosive years of 1947-1949 when Dizzy Gillespie created some of the most innovative big band recordings, combining bebop and Afro-Cuban rhythms (courtesy of percussion
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48
All-star blowing date including guests pianist Chick Corea , violinist Ray Nance and drummer Elvin Jones .
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54
The only jazz recording to be named after an Edmund Wilson book finds Diz with Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and a Finnish Rhythm section. Everything meshes without quite taking off.
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56
The 1945-1946 edition of Gillespie's Classics series finds the bop trumpeter in the kind of top-notch company he kept throughout most of the '40s.
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60
Reissued on CD in 1998, this was one of Dizzy Gillespie's finest sessions of the 1960s.
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