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- Date Released: June 4, 1975
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Bebop, Latin Jazz
- Label: Fantasy / Pablo
Dizzy goes International.
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We Say...
Back when I edited a jazz magazine, I'd find regular annoyance with writers who thought Latin jazz was a tiny sidebar to American jazz. Jazz is many stories, a central one being the African Diaspora. The music of Latin America, South America and the Caribbean are cousins to American music (and they contain some rhythmic secrets we've forgotten, I'd say). Cuba in particular has a special musical relationship with the United States and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie was one among jazz's ranks who honored that truth with depth and style. Though Dizzy made his Big Cuban Bang decades earlier, this 1975 session finds him with the famed band of Frank "Machito" Grillo, featuring the great Cuban trumpeter Mario Bauzá. Composer/arranger Chico O'Farrill's "Oro, Incienso y Mirra" is as modern a fusion of cross-cultural ideas as you'll hear today.
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They Say...
Here we have a summit meeting late in the careers of the pioneering titans of Afro-Cuban jazz -- Dizzy Gillespie fronting the Machito orchestra on trumpet, with Mario Bauza as music director, alto saxophonist/clarinetist, and organizing force, and Chico O'Farrill contributing the compositions and arrangements. This could have been just a nostalgic retro gathering 25 years after the fact, but instead, these guys put forth an ambitious effort to push the boundaries of the idiom. The centerpiece is a 15-minute trumpet concerto for Dizzy called "Oro, Incienso Y Mirra," where O'Farrill melts dissonant clusters, electric piano comping, and synthesizer decorations together with hot Afro-Cuban rhythms into a coherent, multi-sectioned tour de force. Dizzy, who apparently had never been in the same room with synthesizers before, is magnificent as he peels off one patented bebop run after another over Machito's band and in the gaps between. There is also an equally sophisticated suite of O'Farrill pieces grouped under the title "Three Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods," which mixes rock elements into the rhythms. Parts of "Pensativo" sound as if O'Farrill had been carefully listening to Santana, the teacher learning from the student, as it were. It adds up to a paltry 32 minutes of music, yet one can forgive the short weight, this being all there is of a historic recording session.
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| 01. |  |
Oro, Incienso Y Mirra |
15:46 |  |
| 02. | |
Calidoscopico |
5:09 | |
| 03. | |
Pensativo |
5:25 | |
| 04. | |
Exuberante |
5:52 | |
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- Machito - Performer // Jorge Dalto - Piano (Electric) // Jorge Dalto - Piano (Electric) // Dizzy Gillespie - Trumpet // Dizzy Gillespie - Trumpet // Dizzy Gillespie - Trumpet // Dizzy Gillespie - Trumpet // Dizzy Gillespie - Trumpet // Dizzy Gillespie - Trumpet // Dizzy Gillespie - Trumpet // Dizzy Gillespie - Trumpet // Dizzy Gillespie - Trumpet // Dizzy Gillespie - Main Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Main Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Main Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Main Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Main Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Main Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Main Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Main Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Main Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Performer // Dizzy Gillespie - Performer // Barry Morrow - Trombone // Mario Bauzá - Clarinet // Mario Bauzá - Sax (Alto) // Mario Bauzá - Producer // Julio Collazo - African Drums // Donald Corrado - French Horn // Phil DeLancie - Mastering // Manny Duran - Trumpet // Manny Duran - Flugelhorn // Frank Grillo - Leader // Frank Grillo - Maracas // Frank Grillo - Claves // Mario Grillo - Bongos // Mario Grillo - Cowbell // Jack Jeffers - Trombone // Lewis Kahn - Trombone // David Luke - Digital Remixing // Jose Madera - Clarinet // Jose Madera - Sax (Tenor) // Tony May - Engineer // Chico O'Farrill - Trumpet // Chico O'Farrill - Trumpet // Chico O'Farrill - Arranger // Chico O'Farrill - Arranger // Chico O'Farrill - Conductor // Chico O'Farrill - Conductor // Chico O'Farrill - Producer // Chico O'Farrill - Producer // Chico O'Farrill - Liner Notes // Chico O'Farrill - Liner Notes // Victor Paz - Trumpet // Victor Paz - Flugelhorn // Mario Rivera - Flute (Alto) // Mario Rivera - Sax (Tenor) // Mickey Roker - Drums // Mauricio Smith - Flute // Mauricio Smith - Piccolo // Mauricio Smith - Sax (Alto) // Brooks Tillotson - French Horn // Dana McCurdy - Synthesizer // Phil Stern - Photography // Carlos Castillo - Bass (Electric) // Leslie Yahonikan - Clarinet (Bass) // Leslie Yahonikan - Sax (Baritone) // Raul Gonzalez - Trumpet // Raul Gonzalez - Flugelhorn // Eric Miller - Engineer // Eric Miller - Mixing Supervision
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