Dizzy For President


Artist: Dizzy Gillespie

Label: Douglas

Price: $14.95

Year: 2009
Format: CD

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This best seller from Dizzy Gillespie’s discography has been absent from American stores for many years, and this special six-page digipak reissue has never been available in the US before. Looking back at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival more than 45 years later, it’s hard not to see it as a precious moment of harmony cutting through the gathering dissonance that would come to dominate that turbulent decade. On the closing number, singer Jon Hendricks launched the campaign song for the “Dizzy Gillespie for President” campaign, which started when 200,000 black and white Americans marched on Washington to support civil rights three weeks before Monterey. Gillespie admitted the publicity stunt and humorous value of the idea, but he also felt it could help promote genuine change.

ARTISTS
Dizzy Gillespie: trumpet
James Moody: tenor & alto sax, flute
Kenny Barron: piano
Chris White: bass
Rudy Collins: drums
Jon Hendricks: vocals
S. Matsumoto: tenor sax

TRACKS
Dizzy Atmosphere • Morning of the Carnival • The Cup Bearers • I’m In The Mood For Love • Desafinado • Gee Baby Ain’t I Good To You? • No More Blues • Vote Dizzy (Salt Peanuts)

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