An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Live album by
Dizzy Gillespie
Released1961
RecordedFebruary 9, 1961, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
GenreJazz
Length54:41
LabelVerve
ProducerCharles Shwartz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Gillespiana
(1960) 		An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
(1961) 		Carnegie Hall Concert
(1961)
Professional ratings
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SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
DownBeat[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]

An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet is a 1961 live album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, recorded at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[2]

Track listing

  1. "Kush" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 11:01
  2. "Salt Peanuts" (Kenny Clarke, Gillespie) – 7:08
  3. "A Night in Tunisia" (Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) – 6:46
  4. "The Mooche" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 11:43
  5. Interview with Dizzy Gillespie by Charles Shwartz – 18:03

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Down Beat: April 12, 1962 Vol. 29, No. 8
  2. ^ a b AllMusic review
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 83. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 554. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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