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Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie

1965 studio album by Gil Fuller and Dizzy Gillespie

Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie is an album by composer, arranger and conductor Gil Fuller featuring trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1965 and originally released on the Pacific Jazz label.[1] The album was rereleased on CD combined with Fuller's Night Flight (Pacific Jazz, 1965) on the Blue Note label as Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie & James Moody in 2008.[2]

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Reception

The Allmusic review called the album "A bit of a disappointment... the big band is mostly heard from in a purely accompanying role behind the great trumpeter and little interplay occurs".[3]

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Track listing

All compositions by Gil Fuller except as indicated

  1. "Man from Monterey" (Phil Moore) - 4:00
  2. "Angel City" - 8:20
  3. "Love Theme from the Sandpiper" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) - 2:48
  4. "Groovin' High" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 3:27
  5. "Be's That Way" - 4:39
  6. "Big Sur" - 4:37
  7. "Moontide" - 3:56
  8. "Things Are Here" (Gillespie) - 4:19

Personnel

References

  1. [1]
    Gil Fuller discography accessed April 13, 2012
  2. [2]
    Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie & James Moody Allmusic album entry accessed April 13, 2012
  3. [3]
    Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed April 13, 2012
  4. [4]
    Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 555. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.



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