''Gillespiana'' is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie featuring compositions by Lalo Schifrin recorded in 1960 and released on the Verve label.Dizzy Gillespie discography
accessed March 21, 2012 The album features Schifrin's suite written to feature Gillespie and his orchestra.Payne, D

accessed March 21, 2012

Reception

The contemporaneous '' DownBeat'' reviewer awarded the album five stars and wrote: "''Gillespiana'' is a distinguished work written expressly to exploit the trumpeter's remarkable talent."

Track listing

''All compositions by Lalo Schifrin'' # "Prelude" - 5:52 # "Blues" - 11:16 # "Panamericana" - 4:39 # "Africana" - 7:31 # "Toccata" - 12:01

Personnel

* Dizzy Gillespie, John Frosk, Ernie Royal, Clark Terry,

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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 ...

* Urbie Green, Frank Rehak, Britt Woodman -

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

*Paul Faulise - bass trombone * Jim Buffington (tracks 1-3), William Lister (tracks 4 & 5), Al Richman (tracks 1-3),

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, Morris Secon (tracks 4 & 5),

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French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

* Don Butterfield -

tuba The tuba (; ) is the lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibrationa buzzinto a mouthpiece. It first appeared in the mid-19th century, making it one of the ne ...

* Leo Wright - alto saxophone, flute * 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 ...

, arranger *

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- bass *Chuck Lampkin - drums * Candido Camero - conga *Jack Del Rio -

bongos Bongos ( es, bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed hand drums of different sizes. They are struck with both hands, most commonly in an eight-stroke pattern called ''martillo'' (hammer). The ...

*Willie Rodriguez -

timpani Timpani (; ) or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum categorised as a hemispherical drum, they consist of a membrane called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally ...

References

{{Authority control Dizzy Gillespie albums 1960 albums Albums arranged by Lalo Schifrin Albums produced by Norman Granz Verve Records albums