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Boxset / Compilation · 2004

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By DIZZY GILLESPIE

Tracklist

Disc One:
"Cocktails for Two" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) - 2:44
"Cognac Blues" - 2:42
"Moon Nocturne" (Nathaniel Shilkret) - 3:05
"Sabla y Blu" - 3:07
"Blue and Sentimental" (Count Basie, Mack David, Jerry Livingston) - 2:44
"Just One More Chance" (Coslow, Johnston) - 3:14
"The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:14
"Night and Day" (Cole Porter) - 3:04
"Night and Day" alternate take (Porter) - 3:06
"Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias, Jules LeMare) - 3:27
"Sweet and Lovely" [alternate take 1] (Arnheim, Lemare, Tobias) - 3:51
"Sweet and Lovely" [alternate take 2] (Arnheim, Lemare, Tobias) - 3:28
"My Old Flame" (Coslow, Johnston) - 3:22
"My Old Flame" [alternate take] (Coslow, Johnston) - 3:41
"I Waited for You" (Gil Fuller, Gillespie) - 3:18
"Ghost of a Chance" (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 3:05
"They Can't Take That Away from Me" (Gershwin, Gershwin) - 3:16
""They Can't Take That Away from Me" [alternate take] (Gershwin, Gershwin) - 4:01
"Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) - 2:44
"Taking a Chance on Love" [alternate take 1] (Duke, Fetter, Latouche) - 3:29
"Taking a Chance on Love" [alternate take 2] (Duke, Fetter, Latouche) - 3:36

Disc Two:
"When It's Sleepy Time Down South" (Clarence Muse, Leon René, Otis René) - 2:57
"Lullaby in Rhythm" (Benny Goodman, Clarence Profit, Edgar Sampson) - 4:24
"Lullaby in Rhythm" [alternate take] (Goodman, Profit, Sampson) - 4:07
"Just Blues (One More Blues)" - 3:01
"Ain't Misbehavin'" (Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) - 2:58
"Summertime" (George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 4:18
"Blue Moon" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 4:27
"Mama's Blues (Mrs. Dizzy's Blues)" - 4:04
"Undecided" (Sid Robin, Charlie Shavers) - 2:34
"The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 4:16
"Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 3:51
"Jalousie" (Vera Bloom, Jacob Gade) - 2:36
"The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) - 2:37
"Fine and Dandy" (Paul James, Kay Swift) - 3:44
"I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) - 2:24
"Pennies from Heaven" (Johnny Burke, Arthur Johnston) - 2:25

Line-up/Musicians

Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet, vocals
René Bigerille - flute (Disc One, tracks 7-16)
André Gosset, Guy Destanges , René Vasseur - trombone (Disc One, tracks 7-16)
Albert Gillot - clarinet (Disc One, tracks 7-16)
Don Byas - tenor saxophone (Disc One, tracks 1-6, Disc Two, tracks 19, 21, 22 & 25)
Jean-Jacques Tilché - guitar (Disc One, tracks: 7-21)
Wade Legge (Disc Two, tracks 9-16), Arnold Ross (Disc One, tracks 7-21, Disc Two, tracks 1-8), Art Simmons (Disc One, tracks 1-6) - piano
Joe Benjamin (Disc One and Disc Two, tracks 1-8), Lou Hackney (Disc Two tracks 9-16) - bass
Bill Clark (Disc One and Disc Two, tracks 1-8), Al Jones (Disc Two tracks 9-16) - drums
Humberto Morales - congas (Disc One, tracks 1-6)
Robert Jeannoutot - oboe (Disc One, tracks 7-16)
Jean Louchez - bassoon (Disc One, tracks 7-16)
Yvan Allouche, Maurice Elhan, Lionel Galt, Leon Locatelli, Octave Marchesini, Georges Mignot, Albert Mousseux, Roger Sanard, Jean Sauvage - violin (Disc One, tracks 7-16)
Gabriel Beauvais, Andre Saulnier - viola (Disc One, tracks 7-16)
Pierre Coddee, Georges Schwartz - cello (Disc One, tracks 7-16)
Bernard Galais - harp (Disc One, tracks 7-16)
Jo Boyer, Daniel White - arranger (Disc One, tracks 7-16)
The Paris Operatic String Orchestra arranged by Michel Legrand (Disc Two, tracks 11-16)

About this release

EmArcy 980 986-3

Recorded on March 25 (Disc One, tracks 1-6), April 5 (Disc One, tracks 7-21) and April 6 (Disc Two, tracks 1-8), 1952 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and on February 22 (Disc Two, tracks 9-16), 1953 at the Studio Pathe Magellan in Paris, France

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