Dizzy Gillespie Big Band - Diz Big Band flac album

Gillespie joined the big band of Hines' long-time collaborator Billy Eckstine, and it was as a member of Eckstine's band that he was reunited with Charlie Parker, a fellow member. In 1945, Gillespie left Eckstine's band because he wanted to play with a small combo. A "small combo" typically comprised no more than five musicians, playing the trumpet, saxophone, piano, bass and drums. Gillespie with John Lewis, Cecil Payne, Miles Davis, and Ray Brown, between 1946 and 1948. Bebop was known as the first modern jazz style

This impossible-to-find LP (which, like Dizzy Gillespie's other Verve recordings, should be reissued on CD) features the great trumpeter with two different large bands: a string orchestra arranged by Johnny Richards and a big band with more standard instrumentation that plays charts by Buster Harding.

Diz Big Band Dizzy Gillespie. Listen on Apple Music. Diz and Getz (Remastered). The Complete RCA Victor Recordings: Dizzy Gillespie (1994 Remastered).