The Complete RCA Victor Recordings
One of the geniuses of Jazz at a key moment in its history.
Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest trumpeters of all time (some say the best), Gillespie was a complex artist, while his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead of him, and it was not until well into their seventies the style Dizzy was successfully recreated.
Dizzy Gillespie was also instrumental in the creation of Afro-Cuban jazz (or Latin Jazz), adding Chano Pozo's conga to his orchestra in 1947, using complicated rhythms in that early period. Leader of two of the finest big band in jazz history, Gillespie was very different from his contemporaries because he was a masterful showman who could make his music was accessible and fun to your audience. With his puffy cheeks, his bent trumpet (which occurred by accident in the early 50's when a dancer tripped over his horn) and his incredibly quick intelligence, Dizzy was a colorful figure. Natural comedian, also was a superb scat singer and occasional performer of Latin percussion for fun, but it was his trumpet and his leadership that made him a jazz giant.
All this is present in this double CD covering the period between 1947 and 1949 time that Dizzy Gillespie recorded for RCA. After 1949 would not return to recording for the label. But all this material gathered here gives us a complete picture of the enormous importance of these early years of his career in which she chaired the launch of a new form of jazz.
One of the geniuses of Jazz at a key moment in its history.
Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest trumpeters of all time (some say the best), Gillespie was a complex artist, while his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead of him, and it was not until well into their seventies the style Dizzy was successfully recreated.
Dizzy Gillespie was also instrumental in the creation of Afro-Cuban jazz (or Latin Jazz), adding Chano Pozo's conga to his orchestra in 1947, using complicated rhythms in that early period. Leader of two of the finest big band in jazz history, Gillespie was very different from his contemporaries because he was a masterful showman who could make his music was accessible and fun to your audience. With his puffy cheeks, his bent trumpet (which occurred by accident in the early 50's when a dancer tripped over his horn) and his incredibly quick intelligence, Dizzy was a colorful figure. Natural comedian, also was a superb scat singer and occasional performer of Latin percussion for fun, but it was his trumpet and his leadership that made him a jazz giant.
All this is present in this double CD covering the period between 1947 and 1949 time that Dizzy Gillespie recorded for RCA. After 1949 would not return to recording for the label. But all this material gathered here gives us a complete picture of the enormous importance of these early years of his career in which she chaired the launch of a new form of jazz.
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