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A Night in Chicago
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Product Details
- Released on: 2002-01-02
- Rating: Unrated
- Format: NTSC
- Running time: 53 minutes
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
This live date recorded in Chicago in the late '80s (but not released until 1993) captures pioneering bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie in a scintillating set of standards and original compositions backed by a quicksilver horn/rhythm section combo, featuring the underrated pianist Walter Davis Jr. and bassist John Lee. With his trademark puffy cheeks and upturned trumpet, Gillespie delivers speed-of-light bop licks on his Afro-Latin and calypso-tinged tunes "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac" and "Fiesta Mojo." His romantic tones ring on George Gershwin's "Embraceable You" and on a lovely trumpet/piano duo take on Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight." Gillespie's famous "A Night in Tunisia" is reinterpreted in a streamlined, exotic arrangement. Along with his technical genius, Gillespie is a master showman who works the audience with his charisma, jokes, and onstage banter. This DVD shows that even in his senior years, Dizzy Gillespie is still crazy like a fox. --Eugene Holley Jr.
Chuck Berg, JazzTimes- Oct. 1993
Dizzy cavorts and entertains...a serious kind of fun...a priceless souvenir of one of our bona fide legends
JazzTimes- Chuck Berg
Dizzy cavorts and entertains...a serious kind of fun... A PRICELESS SOUVENIR of one of our bona fide legends
Customer Reviews
A priceless souvenir of one of our bona fide legends!
JazzTimes video editor Chuck Berg called this extraordinary concert, recorded in Chicago's intimate Jazz Showcase, "a priceless souvenir of one of our bona fide legends." In one of his final performances, Dizzy plays, scats, dances and jokes his way through such gems as "Round Midnight" and "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac."
#1334 (53 min, Hi-Fi Stereo)
Ho-Hum
Yawn.
Just another performance of Dizzy in a club with nothing special to rave about. If you like Dizzy and are looking for another addition to your collection then, ok buy it. If not, you are not really missing anything.
Ho-Hum
Yawn.
Just another performance of Dizzy in a club with nothing special to rave about. If you like Dizzy and are looking for another addition to your collection then, ok buy it. If not, you are not really missing anything.
