DIZZY GILLESPIE Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie (2006 UK 464-page softback book by Donald L Maggin, this is the enthralling saga of Dizzy Gillespie - a chronicle of the rise of a jazz genius from the lowest rung of the social order to the highest pinnacle of respect & ability that brings Harlem's golden after-hours era, the raucous 52nd Street scene, of the forties, the barrios of Havana and Rio, the White House, and the world's great concert halls to glorious life) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE The Dizzy Gillespie Story Vol. 2 (1963 UK 11-track mono LP, recorded in Detroit in March, 1951 [John Coltrane in the Sextet], in New York across three various dates in '51, & with a Quintet in New York in July 1952, front laminated flipback picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little faint residue from a former price sticker, & is otherwise in Excellent condition & the vinyl near mint RM118) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE A Portrait Of Duke Ellington (1961 US issue of the 1960 11-track stereo LP on the black '8000' series Verve label & including original Verve inner, front pasted picture sleeve. Both sleeve & vinyl are in fantastic condition. ThisLP has come from the vast personal collection of the former Director of Publicity & Marketing for Blue Note in the USA & has been individually stamped on the sleeve as being part of his Jazz Archive - A true piece of Jazz history! V6-8386) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE Dizzy On The French Riviera (1973 US stereo issue of the 1962 7-track LP, pasted picture sleeve. The sleeve shows only light shelfwear & the vinyl is flawless. This LP has come from the vast personal collection of the former Director of Publicity & Marketing for Blue Note in the USA & has been stamped & annotated on the back of the sleeve as being part of his Jazz Archive - A true piece of Jazz history! PHS600-048) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE The Most Important Recordings Of Dizzy Gillespie (Well, if someone of the legendary stature of Diz could be afforded the popular luxury of a 'Greatest Hits' set, this is it - A superb 1989 Danish 32-track double compilation LPfeaturing a representative selection of his work between 1937 & 1957 [including the scary stuff with Bird!], gatefold picture sleeve with extensive notes & great photos inside. Both the sleeve & vinyl are near mint - Essential) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE Dizzy In Greece (1957 US 10-track deep groove mono LP on the black & silver 'trumpeter' label, documenting Dizzy & a showstopping band winning over an Athens crowd, many of whom would have been students previously involved in anti-American riots of May, 1956. The pasted sleeve has Greek titles on the back & recounts Dizzy on tour receiving a new outfit in Dacca & exchanging trumpet lessons for a cigarette case in Turkey! Both the sleeve & vinyl are in stunning near min more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (1976 UK issue of the 1967 5-track STEREO LP, recorded live at the Memory Lane, Los Angeles on May 25th and 26th 1967, gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little light wear, whilst the vinyl has the odd light hairlines leaving it Excellent IMPL8051) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (1982 UK Jasmine issue of the 1968 5-track stereo vinyl LP, recorded live at the Memory Lane, Los Angeles on May 25th and 26th 1967, with James Moody, Mike Longo, Frank Schifano & Candy Finch, picturesleeve JAS5) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (80s German Direct Metal Mastered issue of the 1967 5-track stereo live LP recorded at the Memory Lane in Los Angeles in May 1967, with James Moody on Sax & Flute, Mike Longo on Piano, Frank Schifano on Bass & Candy Finch on Drums, pasted gatefold picture sleeve reproducing the original album artwork AS-9149) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE Havin' A Good Time In Paris (1984 Japanese only 13-track white label promo sample LP featuring tracks recorded in Paris in March & April 1952, including Japanese insert, unique textured picture sleeve & matching obi-strip K23P6743) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE & FRIENDS Live In Concert (1985 Swiss Special Edition 6-track LP recorded live at the International Jazz Festival in Bern on 9th May 1982, picture sleeve. The vinyl and sleeve are in near mint condition NRP19853) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE 20 Golden Pieces Of Dizzy Gillespie (1978 UK 20-track LP compiling a number of key recordings from the cheek puffing legend of the trumpet. The glossy picture sleeve shows little wear & the vinyl is excellent appearing barely played) more...
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ORIGINAL DIZZY GILLESPIE BIG BAND In Concert (1972 UK 8-track stereo LP, featuring a Salle Pleyel, Paris recording from February 22nd, 1948 & a concert from the Civic Auditorium in California in August, 1948 with the great Chano Pozo, front laminated picture sleeve. The sleeve (still in opened shrink!) shows minimal wear & the vinyl is Excellent with a few light paper hairlines scuffs to show play ZGL119) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE & DJANGO REINHARDT Jazz From Paris (Rare 1957 US 14-track LP with a side devoted to each artist on the black Verve 'Clef Series' label, pasted picture sleeve. The sleeve shows minimal shelfwear with just a small sticker mark & tape reinforcement at the edges but the vinyl is flawless. This LP has come from the vast personal collection of the former Director of Publicity & Marketing for Blue Note in the USA & has been stamped & annotated on the back of the sleeve as being part of his Jazz Archive - A true piece of Jazz history! MGV-8015) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE, MILT JACKSON & JOE CARROLL School Days (1951 US 10-track LP, pasted picture sleeve. The sleeve shows some marked ringwear on the front with some edge scuffing but the vinyl is flawless. This LP has come from the vast personal collection of the former Director of Publicity & Marketing for Blue Note in the USA & has been stamped & annotated on the back of the sleeve as being part of his Jazz Archive - A true piece of Jazz history! MG-12204) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE Groovin' High (1955 US 13-track LP compiling together tracks previously released on 78s & recorded in 1945/6, pasted picture sleeve. The sleeve shows some light edge scuffing with a split at the spine, but the vinyl is superb. This LP has come from the vast personal collection of the former Director of Publicity & Marketing for Blue Note in the USA & has been individually stamped & annotated on the back of the sleeve as being part of his Jazz Archive - A true piece of Jazz history! MG-12020) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (1968 UK black & silver label 5-track STEREO LP, recorded live at the Memory Lane, Los Angeles on May 25th and 26th 1967, housed in a front laminated flipback picture sleeve. Despite being over 40 years old the sleeve shows only some minor wear whilst the vinyl has just a few light scuffs to indicate play SIPL504) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE The Best Of The Dizzy Gillespie Big Bands (1965 UK 12-track mono LP of large group recordings taped in New York, 1956-57, including Night In Tunisia & Groovin' High, front laminated flipback picture sleeve. The sleeve & vinyl are Excellent with only minor signs of wear & play VLP9076) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE With Sonny Rollins & Sonny Stitt (1967 UK 8-track stereo double LP in Verve's Very Special Performance series, recorded in NYC in October 1957. Comes housed in a front laminated pocket gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows very little wear & the vinyl looks barely played VSP15/16) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE Portrait Of Jenny (US Perception label 4-track vinyl LP reissue housed in a picture sleeve with liner notes by Terry Phillips. The sleeve has very little signs of age and the vinyl only has minor surface marks where it has been pulled in & out of the sleeve - great copy PLP13) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE + The Double Six Of Paris (1963 South African 12-track mono LP, featuring Bud Powell, Kenny Barron, Kenny Clark, Pierre Michelot and the vocal talents of Ward Swingle, Christiane Legrand and others, flipback picture sleeve. Thesleeve shows a little shelf/ringwear whilst the vinyl shows only light signs of play more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE Dizzy In Greece (1979 Japanese issue of the 1957 10-track mono LP, documenting Dizzy & a showstopping band winning over an Athens crowd, many of whom would have been students previously involved in anti-American riots of May, 1956. The pasted sleeve replicates the original artwork and has Greek titles on the back & recounts Dizzy on tour receiving a new outfit in Dacca & exchanging trumpet lessons for a cigarette case in Turkey! The sleeve shows light shelfwear, whi more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE with THE MITCHELL/RUFF DUO Enduring Magic (1986 German 7-track vinyl LP, recorded in Dartmouth College in 1971, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows little wear and the vinyl is in near mint condition BKH51801) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE Dizzy In Paris (1973 UK 10-track vinyl LP, recorded with his Operatic Strings plus Quintet and Quartet line-ups (1952-53), laminated picture sleeve. Both sleeve and vinyl are in excellent condition CJS841) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE And His Operatic Strings Orchestra (1967 UK 12-track mono LP, formerly released on Barclay, containing recordings made in Paris during two visits in 1952 and '53. Both the pasted laminate picture sleeve and vinyl are in EX condition TL5343) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE Dizzy Gillespie & The Double Six Of Paris (1983 French issue of the 1963 12-track LP, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little light age yellowing at the edges & the vinyl is flawless) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE World Statesman (1957 US 10-track mono LP on a 'deep groove' Verve label, front pasted picture sleeve. Apart from a small area of paper loss at the top of the back of the sleeve, probably caused by a historic sticker, the sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear & the vinyl is flawless - A very nice copy of this hard to find album MGV-8174) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE Dizzy In Paris (1954 UK 8-track 10" mono vinyl LP, recorded at the Rex Theatre for Vogue, just before the amazing Salle Pleyel concert in the evening of February 9, 1953, also featuring Nat Peck, Wade Legge, Lou Hackney, Al Jones & Joe Carroll, front laminated flipback picture sleeve. The sleeve has a couple of small thumbnail tears at the opening but is otherwise in superb shape & the vinyl reveals only light signs of play L.D.E.135) more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE Battle Of The Horns (1980 Japanese white label promo sample 7-track vinyl LP, a fantastic set of tracks recorded at various venues during the 1980 Aurex Jazz Festival; venues include Budokan, Tokyo; Expo Park, Osaka and Yokohama Stadium, Yokohama. Features the blistering talents of Gillespie, alongside Illinois Jacquet, Eddie Davis, Harold Land, Cal Tjader, Cedar Walton, Eddie Gomez and Shelly Manne, complete with fold out Japanese insert, textured gold embossed pictur more...
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DIZZY GILLESPIE/VARIOUS Battle Of The Horns (1980 Japanese Toshiba EMI manufactured 7-track vinyl LP - a fantastic set of tracks recorded at various venues during the 1980 Aurex Jazz Festival; venues include Budokan, Tokyo; Expo Park, Osaka and Yokohama Stadium, Yokohama. Features the blistering talents of Gillespie, alongside Illinois Jacquet, Eddie Davis, Harold Land, Cal Tjader, Cedar Walton, Eddie Gomez and Shelly Manne. Issued in a brilliant embossed, textured picture sleeve, co more...
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