Count Basie & Dizzy Gillespie
THE LATEST FROM COUNT BASIE & DIZZY GILLESPIE
Count Basie & Dizzy Gillespie
The Gifted Ones
CD $11.98 $8.98
RELEASE DATE: 03 Feb 1977
OJCCD-886-2
GENRE: JAZZ
Count Basie occasionally cautioned young sidemen who were feeling their oats not to play bebop in his band, which was rooted in the rhythmic and harmonic soil of the swing era. How, then, could Basie be expected to make an album with Dizzy Gillespie, one of the progenitors of bop? Happily. Before he began evolving bebop, Gillespie was a swing-era musician. He and Basie operated from a common store of jazz knowledge and wisdom. Masters of time and the blues, they had no difficulty accommodatin… MORE
