''Digital at Montreux, 1980'' is a live album by trumpeter

Dizzy Gillespie John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ( ; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improvisation, improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy El ...

with

Toots Thielemans Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (29 April 1922 – 22 August 2016), known professionally as Toots Thielemans (), was a Belgian jazz musician. He was mostly known for playing the chromatic harmonica, as well as his guitar and wh ...

and

Bernard Purdie Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1939) is an American drummer, and an influential R&B, soul, funk and jazz musician. He is known for his precise time-keeping and his signature use of Tuplet, triplets against a half-time backbeat: the P ...

recorded at the

Montreux Jazz Festival The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second-largest annu ...

in 1980 and released on the Pablo label.Dizzy Gillespie discography
accessed April 18, 2012

Reception

The

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review stated "Purdie, a consummate funk and R&B percussionist, makes the switch to mainstream material adequately, while Gillespie and Thielemans establish a quick, consistent rapport".Yanow, S
Allmusic Review
accessed April 18, 2012

Track listing

# ''Introduction by Claude Nobs'' – 0:51 # "Christopher Columbus" ( Chu Berry,

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) – 9:30 # " I'm Sitting on Top of the World" (

Ray Henderson Ray Henderson (born Raymond Brost; December 1, 1896 – December 31, 1970) was an American songwriter. Early life Born in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley. He was one-third of ...

, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young) – 12:20 # " Manteca" ( Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo) – 9:20 # "Get That Booty" (Gillespie) – 2:22 # "Kisses" (Gillespie) – 6:40

Personnel

– trumpet, piano,

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, vocals *

– guitar *

– drums

References

Pablo Records live albums Dizzy Gillespie live albums Albums recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1981 live albums {{1980s-jazz-album-stub