Live at the Royal Festival Hall (Dizzy Gillespie album)

Live at the Royal Festival Hall

Live album by Dizzy Gillespie

Released

1990

Recorded

June 10, 1989
Royal Festival Hall, London, England

Genre

Jazz

Length

71:40

Label

Enja
6044-1

Dizzy Gillespie chronology

Oop-Pop-A-Da
(1988)

Live at the Royal Festival Hall
(1989)

Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989
(1989)

Live at the Royal Festival Hall is a live album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and The United Nation Orchestra recorded in 1989 and first released on the Enja label in 1990. The concert has also been released on DVD.

Reception

The Allmusic review stated "every selection on this excellent CD works" and awarded the album 4 stars.^[1] The JazzTimes review stated "Though Dizzy's tone and technique had slipped a bit in his 72nd year, he could always summon the magic when he needed to... It's a wonder the walls of the Hall didn't come tumbling down".^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Track listing

All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated

"Tin Tin Deo" (Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Fuller, Chano Pozo) - 10:14
"Seresta: Samba for Carmen" (Paquito D'Rivera, Hank Levy) - 8:31
"And Then She Stopped" - 7:26
"Tanga" - 14:09
"Kush" - 9:08
"Dizzy Shells" (Steve Turre) - 6:19
"A Night in Tunisia" (Gillespie, Felix Paparelli) - 18:51

Personnel

Dizzy Gillespie, Claudio Roditi - trumpet
Arturo Sandoval - trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet
Slide Hampton - trombone
Steve Turre - bass trombone
Paquito D'Rivera - alto saxophone, clarinet
James Moody - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute
Mario Rivera - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
John Lee - bass guitar
Ed Cherry - guitar
Danilo Perez - piano
Flora Purim - vocals
Ignacio Berroa - drums
Airto Moreira - percussion
Giovanni Hidalgo - percussion, congas

References

1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed April 20, 2012
↑ Appelbaum, L. JazzTimes Review, March, 2002

Dizzy Gillespie

Studio albums	Bird and Diz (1952) Afro (1954) Diz and Getz (1955) Dizzy and Strings (1954) Roy and Diz (1954) Jazz Recital (1956) The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956) World Statesman (1956) Dizzy in Greece (1956) For Musicians Only (1956) Birks' Works (1957) Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith (1957) Sittin' In (1957) Duets (1957) The Greatest Trumpet of Them All (1957) Sonny Side Up (1957) The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (1959) Have Trumpet, Will Excite! (1959) A Portrait of Duke Ellington (1960) Gillespiana (1960) Perceptions (1961) The New Continent (1962) New Wave (1963) Something Old, Something New (1963) Dizzy Goes Hollywood (1964) Jambo Caribe (1964) Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie (1965) The Melody Lingers On (1966) It's My Way (1969) Cornucopia (1969) The Real Thing (1970) Portrait of Jenny (1970) Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 (1974) The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (1974) Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie (1974) Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings – Jousts (1974) The Bop Session (1975) Jazz Maturity...Where It's Coming From (1975) Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods (1975) Bahiana (1975) Carter, Gillespie Inc. (1976) Dizzy's Party (1976) Free Ride (1977) The Gifted Ones (1977) The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (1980) The Alternate Blues (1980) To a Finland Station (1981) Closer to the Source (1984) New Faces (1985) Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet (1986) Oop-Pop-A-Da (1988)

Live albums	Jazz at Massey Hall (1953) Dizzy Gillespie at Newport (1957) An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (1961) Carnegie Hall Concert (1961) Dizzy on the French Riviera (1962) Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (1963) Live at the Village Vanguard (1967) Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (1967) The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band (1968) Dizzy Gillespie and the Mitchell Ruff Duo in Concert (1971) Giants (1971) The Giants of Jazz (1971) The Giant (1973) The Source (1973) The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (1975) The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75 (1975) Dizzy Gillespie Jam (1977) Digital at Montreux, 1980 (1980) Musician, Composer, Raconteur (1981) One Night in Washington (1983) Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1989) Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (1989) Bird Songs: The Final Recordings (1992) To Bird with Love (1992) To Diz with Love (1992)

Compilation albums	Groovin' High (1955) Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions (1976) The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1995) The Great Blue Star Sessions 1952-1953 (2004) Dizzy Digs Paris (2006)

Soundtrack albums	The Cool World (1964) The Winter in Lisbon (1990)

Books	To Be or Not to Bop (1979)

Related	List of works

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