''Dizzy on the French Riviera'' is a 1962 live album by Dizzy Gillespie, arranged by Lalo Schifrin.

Track listing

# "No More Blues" (

Antonio Carlos Jobim Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular ma ...

-Vinicius de Moraes) – 10:20 # "Long, Long Summer" ( Lalo Schifrin) – 5:15 # "I Waited for You" (

Gil Fuller Walter Gilbert "Gil" Fuller (April 14, 1920, Los Angeles, California – May 26, 1994, San Diego, California) was an American jazz arranger. He is no relation to the jazz trumpeter and vocalist Walter "Rosetta" Fuller. In the 1930s and 1940s, Fu ...

, Dizzy Gillespie) – 2:44 # "

Desafinado "Desafinado" (a Portuguese word, usually rendered into English as "Out of Tune", or as "Off Key") is a 1959 bossa nova song and jazz standard composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim with lyrics (in Portuguese) by Newton Mendonça. Background "Desafin ...

" (Jobim-Mendonça) – 3:27 # "Here It Is" (Gillespie) – 8:33 # "Pau de Arara" (Schifrin arrangement of the original Brazilian folk song by Luiz Gonzaga & Guio de Morais) – 3:38 # "For the Gypsies" (Gillespie) – 4:34

Personnel

Performance

* Lalo Schifrin –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

* Dizzy Gillespie –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

, vocals *

Leo Wright Leo Wright (December 14, 1933 in Wichita Falls, Texas – January 4, 1991 in Vienna) was an American jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and clarinet. He played with Charles Mingus, Booker Ervin, John Hardee, Kenny Burrell, Johnny Co ...

- flute, alto saxophone, vocals * Elek Bacsik -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

Chris White (bassist) Chris White (July 6, 1936 − November 2, 2014) was an American jazz bassist. Early life and education Christopher Wesley White was born in Harlem, New York, and grew up in Brooklyn.double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...

Rudy Collins Rudy Collins (July 24, 1934 – August 15, 1988) was an American jazz drummer born in New York City. Collins played trombone in high school and started on drums at that time as well. He studied with Sam Ulano during 1953–57 and began gigging in ...

- drums * Pepito Riestria -

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

* Charlie Ventura -

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

bass saxophone The bass saxophone is one of the lowest-pitched members of the saxophone family—larger and lower than the more common baritone saxophone. It was likely the first type of saxophone built by Adolphe Sax, as first observed by Berlioz in 1842. It ...

References

Albums produced by Quincy Jones Dizzy Gillespie live albums 1962 live albums Philips Records live albums Albums arranged by Lalo Schifrin Albums recorded at Jazz à Juan {{1960s-jazz-album-stub