Jazz Icons - Dizzy Gillespie Live in '58 and '70

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Features two historic concerts from one of the founding fathers of bebop. Filmed 12 years apart, the 1958 concert features Dizzy working eloquently within the small combo structure of a quintet. The second show features Dizzy fronting the legendary Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band. With a 16-piece big band to conduct, Dizzy's Latin influences are revealed.

Belgium 1958: Blues After Dark; On the Sunny Side of the Street; Loverman; Cocktails for Two; Blues Walk; Denmark 1970: Con Alma; The Brother K; Now Hear My Meanin'; Manteca; Let Me Outta Here; Things Are Here.

Dizzy Gillespie, Trumpet; Sonny Stitt, Tenor Sax; Ray Brown, Bass.