Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie

Studio album by Gil Fuller and Dizzy Gillespie

Released

1965

Recorded

October 1965
Pacific Jazz Studios, Los Angeles

Genre

Jazz

Length

36:12

Label

Pacific Jazz
PJ 93

Producer

Richard Bock

Dizzy Gillespie chronology

Jambo Caribe
(1964)

Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie
(1965)

The Melody Lingers On
(1966)

Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie is an album by composer, arranger and conductor Gil Fuller featuring trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1965 and originally released on the Pacific Jazz label.^[1] The album was rereleased on CD combined with Fuller's Night Flight (Pacific Jazz, 1965) on the Blue Note label as Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie & James Moody in 2008.^[2]

Reception

The Allmusic review called the album "A bit of a disappointment... the big band is mostly heard from in a purely accompanying role behind the great trumpeter and little interplay occurs".^[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Gil Fuller except as indicated

"Man from Monterey" (Phil Moore) - 4:00
"Angel City" - 8:20
"Love Theme from the Sandpiper" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) - 2:48
"Groovin' High" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 3:27
"Be's That Way" - 4:39
"Big Sur" - 4:37
"Moontide" - 3:56
"Things Are Here" (Gillespie) - 4:19

Personnel

Gil Fuller - arranger, conductor
Dizzy Gillespie, John Audino, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Freddie Hill, Melvin Moore - trumpet
Gabe Baltazar, Buddy Collette - alto saxophone
Bill Green, Carrington Visor - tenor saxophone
Jack Nimitz - baritone saxophone
Sam Cassano, David Duke, Herman Lebow, Alan Robinson - French horn
Jim Amlotte, Bob Fitzpatrick, Lester Robinson - trombone
Dennis Budimir - guitar
Phil Moore - piano
Jimmy Bond - bass
Earl Palmer - drums

References

↑ Gil Fuller discography accessed April 13, 2012
↑ Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie & James Moody Allmusic album entry accessed April 13, 2012
1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed April 13, 2012

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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