Gillespiana | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Dizzy Gillespie |
Border: | yes |
Released: | 1960 |
Recorded: | November 14, 15 & 16, 1960 New York City |
Genre: | Jazz |
Length: | 41:19 |
Label: | Verve MGV 8394 |
Producer: | Norman Granz |
Chronology: | Dizzy Gillespie |
Prev Title: | A Portrait of Duke Ellington |
Prev Year: | 1960 |
Next Title: | An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet |
Next Year: | 1961 |
Gillespiana is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie featuring compositions by Lalo Schifrin recorded in 1960 and released on the Verve label.[1] The album features Schifrin's suite written to feature Gillespie and his orchestra.[2]
The contemporaneous DownBeat reviewer awarded the album five stars and wrote: "Gillespiana is a distinguished work written expressly to exploit the trumpeter's remarkable talent."
All compositions by Lalo Schifrin