Dizzy Digs Paris


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 and Dizzy Gillespie and His Operatic Strings Orchestra. 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.

Reception

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".

Track listing

All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated
Disc One:
  1. "Intro " – 1:31
  2. "The Champ" – 9:22
  3. "Good Bait" – 9.50
  4. "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac" – 4:10
  5. "Ghost of a Chance" –
  6. "Lady Be Good" – 3:50
  7. "Mon Homme" – 2:53
  8. " The Bluest Blues" – 3:51
  9. "Birks' Works" – 9:36
  10. "Ooh-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be" – 3:28
  11. "They Can't Take That Away From Me" –
  12. "Embraceable You" – 3:06
  13. "Play Fiddle Play" – 3:16
  14. "I Can't Get Started" – 4:29
  15. "Tin Tin Deo" – 4:11
  16. "On The Sunny Side of the Street" –
Disc Two:
  1. "School Days" – 7:04
  2. "Undecided" – 2:34
  3. "The Way You Look Tonight" – 4:16
  4. "Always" – 2:58
  5. "Mon Homme" – 2:41
  6. "Clappin' Rhythm" – 2:15
  7. "Fais Gaffe – 3:58
  8. "Moon Nocture" – 2:27
  9. "This Is the Way" – 2:35
  10. "'S Wonderful" – 3:16
  11. "Oo-Bla-Dee" – 3:03
  12. "Stormy Weather" – 3:51
  13. "Jalousie" – 2:36
  14. "The Very Thought of You" – 2:37
  15. "Fine and Dandy" – 3:44
  16. "I've Got You Under My Skin" – 2:24
  17. "Pennies from Heaven" – 2:25
  18. "Perdido" – 3:08
  19. "Dream a Little Dream of Me" – 3:16
  20. "Wade Legge's Blues" – 3:44
  21. "A Swedish Folk Song" – 3:11
  22. "Dance Of The Infidels" – 3:14
  23. "Aren't You Glad You're You" – 3:15
  24. "These Foolish Things" – 2:52
  25. "Why Don't You Believe Me?" – 2:52
Recorded on February 9, 1953, at the Salle Pleyel and on February 22, 1953, at the Studio Pathe Magellan and February 27, 1953, in Paris, France

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