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Dizzy Gillespie Album Rankings

At Newport

3.6348

This CD features Dizzy Gillespie's second great big band at the peak of its powers. ...more about Dizzy Gillespie

Album from 10.35

(3) sellers

Shaw Nuff

3.3950

This CD has Dizzy Gillespie's classic Musicraft sides (all except "A Handfulla Gimme"), some of the most famous recordings of his long career. ...more about Dizzy Gillespie

Album from 7.69

(2) sellers

Birk's Works: Verve Big Band Sessions

3.2405

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, ...more about Dizzy Gillespie

Album from 15.72

(2) sellers

The Complete RCA Victor Recordings: 1937-1949

3.2405

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 ...more about Dizzy Gillespie

Album from 14.11

(3) sellers

School Days

2.8919

An old recording from 1951, this album has been re-released on Columbia from the old Savoy/Regent recordings. ...more about Dizzy Gillespie

Album from 8.30

(3) sellers

Career: 1937-1992

2.3933

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. ...more about Dizzy Gillespie

Album from 1.94

(3) sellers

Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac

1.8623

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. ...more about Dizzy Gillespie

12.61

Jambo Caribe

1.8623

The populist Dizzy Gillespie gets full rein in this lively, happy collection of tunes exploring rhythms and idioms from the Caribbean. ...more about Dizzy Gillespie

5.98

Groovin' High

0.9914

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 ...more about Dizzy Gillespie

Album from 1.99

(9) sellers

Live at the Royal Festival Hall

0.2853

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. ...more about Dizzy Gillespie

25.00

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