Duets
Studio album by
Dizzy Gillespie
ReleasedMid March 1958[1]
RecordedDecember 11, 1957
Nola Studios, New York City
GenreJazz
Length39:18
LabelVerve
MGV 8260
ProducerNorman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Dizzy Gillespie at Newport
(1957) 		Duets
(1958) 		The Greatest Trumpet of Them All
(1957)

Duets is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie featuring Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt, recorded in 1957 and released on the Verve label. The recordings on this album are from the same sessions and with the same personnel that produced the Sonny Side Up album which had Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins playing simultaneously with Dizzy Gillespie. On the Duets album, as the name implies, Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins played separately with Dizzy Gillespie.[2]

Reception

The AllMusic review states that "the highlights are many."[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie

  1. "Wheatleigh Hall" – 8:48
  2. "Sumphin'" – 10:26
  3. "Con Alma" [alternate take] – 9:08 Bonus track on CD reissue
  4. "Con Alma" – 9:26
  5. "Anythin'" – 10:29 Bonus track on CD reissue
  6. "Haute Mon'" – 10:38

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Billboard Mar 31, 1958
  2. ^ Dizzy Gillespie discography accessed March 23, 2012
  3. ^ a b Greenberg, A. Allmusic Review accessed March 23, 2012


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