Jazz Recital

For the Charlie Byrd album, see Jazz Recital (Charlie Byrd album).

Jazz Recital
Studio album by Dizzy Gillespie
Released	1956
Recorded	May 25 & June 8, 1954, and September 12 & November 8, 1955 New York City
Genre	Jazz
Label	Norgran MGN 1083[1]
Producer	Norman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Roy and Diz (1954) Jazz Recital (1956) One Night in Washington (1955)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
DownBeat	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]

Jazz Recital (also released as Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra) is an album by the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, recorded in 1954 and 1955 and released on the Norgran label. It consists of quintet, sextet and jazz orchestra tracks.^[5]

Release and reception

Jazz Recital was released by Norgran Records in 1956 and by Verve Records the following year.^[5] Two of the tracks from the album were also released as singles.^[6]

Billboard wrote that: "Diz is the whole show instrumentally, and he's in great form, musically and commercially".^[6] In his DownBeat review, Ralph J. Gleason's summary was: "Despite the magnificence of Dizzy's trumpet on several of these tracks, notably the beautifully moody 'Blue Mood', this is an uneven album."^[3] He praised the playing of trombonist Jimmy Cleveland on 'Rails' and saxophonist Hank Mobley in the small-group recordings, but asserted that vocalist Toni Harper "simply does not make it in this league".^[3] In his 1950s review of Gillespie's recordings, John S. Wilson described two Verve releases – Jazz Recital and Birks' Works – as "leftover odds and ends which makes a spotty program".^[7]

Track listing

All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie and Buster Harding except as indicated

1. "Sugar Hips" (Dizzy Gillespie, Wade Legge) – 5:16
2. "Hey Pete" (Gillespie, Buster Harding, Lester Peterson) – 5:07
3. "Money Honey" (Jesse Stone) – 2:30
4. "Blue Mood" – 3:29
5. "Rails" – 3:30
6. "Devil and the Flesh" – 3:21
7. "Rumbola" – 3:25
8. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) – 3:26
9. "Play Me The Blues" –
10. "(Seems Like) You Just Don't Care" (Kitty Noble, Rose Marie McCoy) –

Personnel

• Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet, vocals
• Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone (tracks 1–7)
• Jimmy Cleveland – trombone (tracks 4–6 & 10)
• Harry Edison (tracks 8 & 9), Taft Jordan (track 10), Ermit V. Perry (track 10), Ernie Royal (track 10) – trumpet (tracks 5–8)
• Matthew Gee (track 10), Melba Liston (tracks 8 & 9), Jimmy Wilkins (track 10) – trombone
• Gigi Grice (track 10), Hilton Jefferson (track 10), Willie Smith (tracks 8 & 9) – alto saxophone
• Curtis Amy (tracks 8 & 9), Ed Beel (tracks 8 & 9), Ernie Wilkins (track 10), Budd Johnson (track 10) – tenor saxophone
• Clyde Dunn (tracks 8 & 9), Sahib Shihab (track 10) – baritone saxophone
• Wade Legge (tracks 1–7 & 10), Carl Perkins (tracks 8 & 9) – piano
• George Bledsoe (tracks 8 & 9), Nelson Boyd (track 10), Lou Hackney (tracks 1–7) – double bass
• Al Bartee (tracks 8 & 9), Charlie Persip (tracks 1–7 & 10) – drums
• Toni Harper (tracks 8 & 9), Herb Lance (track 10) – vocals

References

1. Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN 9781440229169 – via Google Books.
2. Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra – Dizzy Gillespie, AllMusic. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
3. Gleason, Ralph J. (October 31, 1956). "Dizzy Gillespie". DownBeat. Vol. 23, no. 22. p. 25.
4. Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.
5. Dizzy Gillespie discography. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
6. "Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Recital". The Billboard. Vol. 63, no. 38. September 22, 1956. pp. 44, 68.
7. Wilson, John S. (1959). The Collector's Jazz: Modern. J. B. Lippincott. p. 114.