Dizzy Gillespie - Lady Be Good (rel.1989)
Front Cover Album Info
Artist/Composer Dizzy Gillespie
Title Lady Be Good
Length 56:27 Discs: 1 Tracks: 10
Format CD Packaging Jewel Case
Label Object Enterprises Cat. Number OR0083
Style Bop Rating N/A
Musicians
Dizzy Gillespie trumpet, vocals
Bill Graham sax baritone
Wade Legge piano
Lou Hackney bass
Al Jones drums
Leo Wright alto sax,, flute
Bob Cunningham bass
Lalo Schifrin piano
Mel Lewis drums
Track list
01
Can't Get Started (Duke/Gershwin) 03:02
02
Manteca 03:16
03
Alone Together (Dietz/Schwartz) 04:40
04
Tin Tin Deo (Fuller/Pozo) 03:32
05
They Can't Take That Away From Me (Gershwin/Gershwin) 03:36
06
Oh, Lady Be Good (Gershwin/Gershwin) 03:09
07
Long Long Summer 08:17
08
No Grater Love 03:32
09
The Mouche (Ellington/Mills) 12:02
10
Night In Tunisia (Gillespie/Paparelli) 11:21
Notes
AMG Review (4):
Lady Be Good is actually a discount album, released posthumously. In all truth, the years of the recordings, as well as the performers other than Gillespie, are left to the listener's imagination. Whoever the performers might be and whenever the recordings may have been made, the sound is still undeniably Gillespie. Some of the albums conceived and produced by Gillespie himself are better choices for any fan of either Gillespie or bop in general, but this one is good nonetheless. The album is packed with a couple of the famous Afro-Cuban pieces, "Tin Tin Deo" and "Manteca"; a pair of Gershwin pieces, "Lady Be Good" and "They Can't Take That Away From Me"; Vernon Duke's "I Can't Get Started"; and, of course, Dizzy's own "Night in Tunisia." The songs are all quite good, though perhaps not of the top quality you'd get on one of the albums released intentionally by Gillespie. Still a good buy at the discount level, though, so pick it up if you can find it. — Adam Greenberg

recorded: 1953 & 1961 in Europe
DIZZY GILLESPIE (tp)
1953 /w BILL GRAHAM (as, ss); WADE LEGGE (p); LOU HACKNEY (b); AL JONES (dr); 1961 /w LEO WRIGHT (as, fl); LALO SCHIFRIN (p); BOB CUNNINGHAM (b); MEL LEWIS (dr)