The Modern Jazz Sextet Featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis , Skeeter Best, Percy Heath, Charlie Persip - The Modern Jazz Sextet
  • Author: The Modern Jazz Sextet
  • Album: The Modern Jazz Sextet
  • Size: 1761 mb
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Format: flac, wma, mp3 archive
  • Label: Verve Records ‎– MV 2512
    Series: Immortal Jazz On Verve II – Vol. 2
    Type: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
    Country: Japan
    Date of released: 1974
    Category: Jazz
    Style: Bop
The Modern Jazz Sextet Featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis , Skeeter Best, Percy Heath, Charlie Persip - The Modern Jazz Sextet

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Tour De Force
Written-By – Gillespie*
11:39
A2 Dizzy Meets Sonny
Written-By – Gillespie*
7:59
Ballad Medley (7:10)
B1.a Old Folks
Written-By – Hill*, Robison*
B1.b What's New
Written-By – Haggart*, Burke*
B1.c How Deep Is The Ocean
Written-By – Irving Berlin
B2 Mean To Me
Written-By – Ahlert*, Turk*
6:30
B3 Blues For Bird
Written-By – Gillespie*, Stitt*
9:08

Companies, etc.

  • Manufactured By – Polydor K.K.
  • Recorded At – Fine Sound

Credits

  • Alto Saxophone – Sonny Stitt (tracks: A1 to B1.a, B2, B3)
  • Bass – Percy Heath
  • Design [Cover] – David Stone Martin
  • Drums – Charlie Persip
  • Guitar – Skeeter Best
  • Piano – John Lewis
  • Supervised By – Norman Granz
  • Trumpet – Dizzy Gillespie (tracks: A1, A2, B1.c to B3)

Notes

Recorded on January 12th, 1956 at Fine Sound, New York City.

Silver on black labels. Without JASRAC logo.

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
MG N-1076 The Modern Jazz Sextet The Modern Jazz Sextet ‎(LP, Album, Mono, Sil) Norgran Records MG N-1076 US 1956
J33J 25025, J33J-25025 The Modern Jazz Sextet Featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis , Skeeter Best, Percy Heath & Charlie Persip The Modern Jazz Sextet Featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis , Skeeter Best, Percy Heath & Charlie Persip - The Modern Jazz Sextet ‎(CD, Album, Mono, RE) Verve Records, Verve Records J33J 25025, J33J-25025 Japan 1986
MG N-1076 The Modern Jazz Sextet The Modern Jazz Sextet ‎(LP, Album, Mono) Norgran Records MG N-1076 US 1956
VE-1-2533 The Modern Jazz Sextet Dizzy Meets Sonny ‎(LP, Album, Promo, RE) Verve Records VE-1-2533 US 1979
R09395 The Modern Jazz Sextet Featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis , Skeeter Best, Percy Heath & Charlie Persip The Modern Jazz Sextet Featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis , Skeeter Best, Percy Heath & Charlie Persip - Dizzy Meets Sonny ‎(LP, Album) World Record Club R09395 Australia Unknown


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