Dizzy Gillespie at Newport
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Dizzy Gillespie at Newport
Live album by Dizzy Gillespie
Released  1957
Recorded  July 6, 1957, Newport, Rhode Island
Length  51:59
Label  Verve

Reception

The Allmusic review states "This brilliant CD captures one of the high points of Dizzy Gillespie's remarkable career and is highly [bad word] quot;.[2]
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source  Rating
Allmusic  5/5 stars[2]
Track listing

    "Dizzy's Blues" (Ahmad Kharab Salim) – 11:51
    "School Days" (Will D. Cobb, Gus Edwards) – 5:47
    "Doodlin'" (Horace Silver) – 7:56
    "Manteca" (Gil Fuller, Gillespie, Chano Pozo) – 7:11
    "I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson) – 4:48
    "Cool Breeze" (Tadd Dameron, Billy Eckstine, Gillespie) – 10:33
    "Zodiac Suite: Virgo/Libra/Aries" (Mary Lou Williams) – 10:28 Bonus track on CD reissue
    "Carioca" (Edward Eliscu, Gus Kahn, Vincent Youmans) – 3:41 Bonus track on CD reissue
    "Night in Tunisia" (Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) – 10:00 Bonus track on CD reissue

Background

    In "Manteca", the big band chants, "I'll never go back to Georgia", in reference to the racial prejudice Dizzy's band experienced on a stop there during its 1945 tour.

Personnel

    Dizzy Gillespie – [bad word]  vocals, arranger (track 4)
    Talib Dawud, Lee Morgan, Ermit V. Perry, Carl Warwick - [bad word] 
    Chuck Conners, Al Grey, Melba Liston - trombone
    Ernie Henry, Jimmy Powell - alto saxophone
    Benny Golson - tenor saxophone, arranger (track 5)
    Billy Mitchell - tenor saxophone
    Pee Wee Moore - baritone saxophone
    Wynton Kelly (tracks 1-6 & 9), Mary Lou Williams (tracks 7 & 8) - piano
    Paul E. West - double bass
    Charlie Persip - [bad word] 
    Ahmad Kharab Salim (track 1), Tadd Dameron (track 6), Quincy Jones (track 2), Ernie Wilkins (track 3) - arr