Dizzy Digs Paris

Released

2006

Recorded

February 9, 1953 at the Salle Pleyel, February 22, 1953 at the Studio Pathe Magellan and February 27, 1953 in Paris, France

Genre

Jazz

Label

Giant Steps

Dizzy Gillespie chronology

The Great Blue Star Sessions 1952-1953
(1952-53)

Dizzy Digs Paris
(1953)

Jazz at Massey Hall
(1953)

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Allmusic

Dizzy Digs Paris is a compilation album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and his band featuring concert and studio performances recorded in Paris in 1953 and originally released on the French Disques Vogue and Blue Star labels. Many of the tracks were first released as 78 rpm records but were later released on albums including Dizzy Over Paris (Roost) and Dizzy Gillespie and His Operatic Strings Orchestra (Fontana). The album also includes eight tracks recorded by Dizzy's rhythm section led by Wade Legge but without Gillespie that were originally released on a 10" album.

The Allmusic review stated "As a whole, the two-CD set might not be a major entry in the Gillespie discography, but it's a good one. And it's certainly hard to imagine a more complete package of this 1953 Salle Pleyel concert, complemented as it is by studio material recorded by the same musicians at the same time and place".

All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated

Disc One:

Disc Two:

Recorded on February 9, 1953 at the Salle Pleyel (Disc One and Disc Two, track 1) and on February 22, 1953 at the Studio Pathe Magellan (Disc Two, tracks 2-17) and February 27, 1953 (Disc Two, tracks 18-25), in Paris, France

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