The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big Four

Performer: Dizzy Gillespie
Artist: Ray Brown; Joe Pass
Engineer: Steve Williams
Producer: Norman Granz
Distributor: Fantasy (distributor)

Notes: /Freddie Hubbard/Clark Terry/Oscar Peterson. Personnel: Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry (trumpet); Oscar Peterson (piano); Joe Pass (guitar); Ray Brown (bass); Bobby Durham (drums). Recorded at Group IV Studios, Hollywood, California on March 10, 1980. Originally released on Pablo (2312-114). Includes liner notes by Norman Granz. Digitally remastered by Phil De Lancie (1990, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California). To call this CD (a reissue of a Pablo date) an all-star session would be an understatement. Joining pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Bobby Durham are three classic trumpeters: Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, and Freddie Hubbard. They clearly inspire each other (Gillespie flew in from the East Coast specifically for this date) and the music ("Daahoud," "Just Friends," the new blues "Chicken Wings," and a torrid version of "The Champ") has plenty of exciting moments. Other performances from the same date can be heard on The Alternate Blues, another LP reissued on CD through the Original Jazz Classics imprint. ~ Scott Yanow

If Charlie Parker was the chief architect of the bop revolution of the 1940s, Dizzy Gillespie was its standard-bearer, an evangelist who battled public hostility and incomprehension with rapier wit. A trumpeter of dazzling virtuosity, he matched Parker's rhythmic innovations with deft harmonic ingenuity. He also functioned as teacher, putting his vast knowledge of harmony at the disposal of younger musicians like Miles Davis, who were trying to get a handle on the new sound. His historic big band featuring Chano Pozo was the first large-scale attempt to combine Latin music with jazz, and the unflagging excellence of his subsequent career was a tribute to the integrity of his original vision. He died in 1993.

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