Dizzy Gillespie The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie Vinyl LP 2024

1. Swing Low
2. Always
3. Willow Weep for Me
4. Ungawa
5. Lorraine
6. Girl of My Dreams
7. Constantinople
8. The Umbrella Man

The band Dizzy Gillespie assembled for this date — Junior Mance, Les Spann, Sam Jones, and Lex Humphries — was for the most part a working band on the club & concert circuit, offering a mixture of Gillespie’s entertaining songs, established repertoire, & some Latin & African-influenced pieces. With them, Dizzy found a middle ground in his music that gave his legacy room to breathe, but with much more rhythmic variety. This Verve By Request title is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Third Man in Detroit.