Vol 4 1943 -1944

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Personnel includes: Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet); Sarah Vaughan, Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Petitford Quartet. Personnel: Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet, piano); Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan (vocals); Chuck Wayne, Connie Wainwright (guitar); Aaron Sachs, Buster Bailey (clarinet); Budd Johnson (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, bass saxophone); Leo Parker (alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); Leonard Lowry, Frank Langone, George "Happy" Johnson , John Jackson , Jack Aiken, Jimmy Dorsey, Jimmy Powell (alto saxophone); Coleman Hawkins, Dexter Gordon, Don Byas, Bob Dukoff, Gene Ammons, Georgie Auld, Charlie Frazier, Wardell Gray, Ben Webster, Ray Abrams, Charlie Parker (tenor saxophone); Bob Lawson, Rudy Rutherford (baritone saxophone); Freddy Webster, Gail Brockman, Shorty McConnell, Marion Hazel, Ed Vanderveer, Vic Coulson, Bob Alexy, Claude Bowen, Al Killian, Ray Linn (trumpet); Taswell Baird, Andy Russo, Sonny Lee, Chips Outcalt, Howard Scott , Jerry Valentine, Nick Dimaio, Si Zentner, Trummy Young , Claude Jones (trombone); Clyde Hart, George Wallington, Marvin Wright , Leonard Feather, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, John Malachi (piano); Buddy Schutz, Max Roach, Morey Feld, Art Blakey, Shadow Wilson, Bill Beason (drums). Liner Note Author: Alain Tercinet. Recording information: 02/15/1943-10/??/1941. Directors: Jimmy Dorsey; John Kirby . Arrangers: Jerry Valentine; John Malachi. In their Dizzy Gillespie CD series, Masters of Jazz has been reissuing every early selection in which the trumpeter can be heard. In some ways, 1943-1944, Vol. 4 is the most interesting because of the rarity of the material, plus the time period that it covers, just before Gillespie became famous. His style was just about fully formed by this time, but the jazz world was still dominated by swing. The CD starts out with the lone 1943 selection, a jam on "Sweet Georgia Brown" by a trio comprised of Gillespie, Charlie Parker (on tenor), and bassist Oscar Pettiford; the Stash label had been the first to release this very valuable performance. Next up is a wretchedly recorded (but very valuable) version of "A Night in Tunisia" by Gillespie in his short-lived 52nd Street Quintet with tenor saxophonist Budd Johnson, pianist George Wallington, drummer Max Roach, and Pettiford. All of the numbers in which Gillespie solos with Coleman Hawkins' band (including "Woody'n You") and the Billy Eckstine Orchestra (including two versions of "Blowing the Blues Away") are here, as are the five songs that Sarah Vaughan recorded during her first date as a leader, Jimmy Dorsey's version of "Grand Central Getaway" (which Gillespie arranged) and a long-lost Clark Monroe's Uptown House jam ("The Dizzy Crawl") from 1941 that had never been out before. Most intriguing are five selections (four on which he solos) that Gillespie performed in 1944 with the John Kirby Sextet/Septet; tenor saxophonist Ben Webster is also on three of the songs. To hear Gillespie emerge from the highly arranged cool-toned group and play radical bop solos on "Rose Room" and "Taking a Chance on Love" is a rare thrill. Easily recommended to listeners interested in the formative years of bebop. ~ Scott Yanow
録音 : モノラル (Studio)