Dizzy Gillespie – Something Old, Something LP 1st press Phillips PHS 600-091
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Dizzy Gillespie – Something Old, Something LP 1st press PhilPHS 600091 James Moody Archival Sleeve
One of those magic session everyone in great form I like Monk's Round Midnight
Something Old, Something New is a studio album by Dizzy Gillespie, recorded and released in 1963.
The AllMusic review states "this was one of Dizzy Gillespie's finest sessions of the 1960s"
Reissued on CD in 1998, this was one of Dizzy Gillespie's finest sessions of the 1960s. His quintet (which includes James Moody on tenor, flute and alto, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Chris White and drummer Rudy Collins) sounds quite inspired. The "Something Old" portion of the set is the main reason to acquire it, since it consists of rapid versions of "Bebop" and "Dizzy Atmosphere," a memorable rendition of "Good Bait" and a definitive medley of "I Can't Get Started" and "'Round Midnight." The "New" part of the release consists of four then-recent pieces (three by Tom McIntosh), best known of which is "Cup Bearers."
One of best is Something Old, Something New, surely one of the greatest jazz albums of the 1960s, first reissued on CD in 1998. It opens with the quietly exhilarating Bebob, Dizzy’s trumpet flying and pulsing before Kenny Barron’s busy piano solo takes the baton.Bassist Chris White tippy toes along blithely while Drummer Rudy Collins makes that cymbal brush almost like two tambourines in the rich undergrowth of the tune. Dizzy’s delicate filigree infuses the warm, tender reading of the Todd Dameron/Count Basie classic, Good Bait.
Meanwhile, James Moody shines throughout on tenor sax, flute and alto, and there is a languorous segue from Gershwin/Duke’s I Can’t Get Started into Monk/Williams’ deliciously sleepy Round Midnight. Dizzy Dizzy Atmosphere is more of the same crackling stuff of which Bebob is made, with braying scat vocals in the background from somebody among the personnel - any guesses folks? There are a few Tom McIntosh numbers from the second Something New side of the album and a Brazilian jaunt on This Lovely Feeling, an Arif Mardin/Margo Guyan number.
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