Dizzy Gillespie
Subtitle: the development of an American artist
By: Dizzy Gillespie
Publisher: Smithsonian Collection
Published: 1976
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] :
Subjects: Jazz; Big band music
Other titles: Development of an American artist
Notes: Smithsonian Collection: R 004 (P 13454--P13455).

Program notes, including original dates, places, personnel, and issue no. of recordings on and ([4] p.) bound into container.

Includes bibliographical references.

Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet ; with various bands ; vocals by Cab Calloway, Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan.

Recorded between 1940 and 1946.
Table of contents: title: Pickin' the cabbage / Gillespie; title: Hard times / Noel, Battle, Calloway; title: Bye bye blues / Hamm [and others]; title: Boo-wah boo-wah : excerpt / Clinton, Harding; title: Star dust I : excerpt / Carmichael, Parish; title: Kerouac : first excerpt / Gillespie; title: Kerouac : second excerpt / Gillespie; title: Star Dust II : excerpt / Carmichael, Parish; title: Jersey bounce / Plater [and others]; title: Little John special / Millinder; title: Woody'n'you / Gillespie; title: Disorder at the border / Hawkins; title: I stay in the mood for you / Eckstine; title: Blowing the blues away / Eckstine, Valentine; title: Opus X / Malachi; title: Interlude : Night in Tunisia / Gillespie, Papparelli; title: No smokes blues / Feather; title: Something for you / Pettiford; title: I can't get started / Duke, Gershwin; title: Good bait / Dameron, Basie; title: Salted peanuts / Gillespie, Clarke; title: Be-bop / Gillespie; title: On the Alamo / Jones, Kahn; title: Cherokee / Noble; title: Interlude : Night in Tunisia / Gillespie, Papparelli; title: March of the Boyds / Finckel; title: In the middle / Auld, Van Lake; title: Groovin' high.; title: Gillespie, Stone; title: Co-pilot / Van Lake; title: Confirmation / Parker; title: Diggin' for Diz / Handy; title: Dynamo A / Gillespie; title: 'Round midnight / Monk, Williams.