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COMPLETE STUDIO RECORDINGS
Reference: DIS-123014
This collection presents the complete studio recordings made by the outstanding 1959 Dizzy Gillespie Quintet with Junior Mance and Les Spann. These recordings are also interesting in that, with the sole exception of Les Spann's flute on a few tracks, no other horn is heard here but Dizzy's trumpet. Included are the albums Have
Trumpet, Will Excite and The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie in their entirety, as well as all of the other tracks by this formation originally issued on
singles and compilations. Two complete rarely heard 1954 sessions by the Gillespie quintet/sextet featuring Hank Mobley and Jimmy
Cleveland have been added as a bonus.
DIZZY GILLESPIE - trumpet & vocals. JUNIOR MANCE - piano
LES SPANN - guitar & flute,
SAM JONES - bass,
LEX HUMPHRIES - drums
Johny Hodges (alto sax) added on CD2, track 4.
Francisco �Chino� Pozo (congas) added on CD1, tracks 5 & 12-13.
New York, February 17-20, 1959.
Bonus tracks (CD2, tracks 10-17):
Dizzy Gillespie (tp, vcl), Hank Mobley (ts), Wade Lege (p), Lou Hackney (b), Charlie Persip (d). Jimmy Cleveland (tb) added on 14-16.
New York, May 25 & June 8, 1954.
Disc 1: 1. My Heart Belongs To Daddy, 2. My Man, 3. Moonglow, 4. St. Louis Blues, 5. Woody'n You, 6. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams, 7. There Is No Greater Love, 8. I Found A Million Dollar Baby, (In The Five And Ten Cent Store)
9. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac, 10. Always, 11. Willow Weep For Me, 12. Ungawa, 13. Lorraine
Total Time: 73:50
Disc 2: 1. Girl Of My Dreams, 2. Constantinople, 3. The Umbrella Man, 4. Squatty Roo, 5. Oo-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be, 6. I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In The Five And Ten Cent Store) [Alt Tk], 7. There Is No Greater Love [Alt Tk 1],
8. There Is No Greater Love [Alt Tk 2], 9. There Is No Greater Love [alt tk 3], 10. Sugar Hips, 11. One Alone (Lonely One), 12. Hey Pete! Let's Eat More Meat, 13. Money Honey, 14. Blue Mood, 15. Rails, 16. Devil And The Flesh,
17. Rumbola.
Total Time: 74:48
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