Roy Eldridge & Dizzy Gillespie - Roy And Diz

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1994
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:28
Size: 138,8 MB
Art: Front

(5:21)  1. Sometimes I'm Happy
(6:09)  2. Algo Bueno
(7:53)  3. Trumpet Blues
(7:13)  4. Ballad Medley: I'm Thru With Love / Can't We Be Friends / Don't You Think / I Don't Know Why (I Just Do) / If I Had You
(6:55)  5. Blue Moon
(6:18)  6. I've Found A New Baby
(5:31)  7. Pretty-Eyed Baby
(7:51)  8. I Can't Get Started
(7:12)  9. Limehouse Blues

This set features two sizzling horns mingling in a decidedly frenetic dance contest. These songs hop and bounce with enduring vitality. A definite coolness exists within the searing solos of the two trumpet kings as they empty their lungs, executing mind-spinning, scale-like passages and high notes, and there's a palpable sense of competition as they take turns performing their acrobatic brass-work. They can both propel notes from their horns like nobody's business, yet their tonal and stylistic differences create two distinct elements within the music. Bassist Ray Brown's tempos provide a cool structure for the flurries of notes the trumpets cast forth. Some of the most poetic moments from these 1954 recordings are when their collaboration intertwines them within the passages, but their supercharged blowing naturally finds a subtler ground and tact when they come together in a musical braid work that's no less affecting than their solos. http://www.allmusic.com/album/roy-and-diz-mw0000114909

Personnel: Roy Eldridge (vocals, trumpet); Dizzy Gillespie (vocals, trumpet); Herb Ellis (guitar); Oscar Peterson (piano); Louie Bellson (drums).

Roy And Diz

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