DIZZY GILLESPIE BIG BAND. London 1987. BBC broadcast

DIZZY GILLESPIE - trumpet
GLEN DREWES - trumpet
VIRGIL JONES - trumpet
EARL GARDNER - trumpet
JON FADDIS - trumpet
FRANK LACY - trombone
STEVE TURRE - trombone, conch
BRITT WOODMAN - trombone
BOB STEWART - tuba
JUKKA PERKO - alto saxophone
JERRY DODGION - alto saxophone, flute
SAM RIVERS - tenor and soprano saxophones, flute
RALPH MOORE - tenor saxophone
HOWARD JOHNSON - baritone saxophone
JAMES WILLIAMS - piano
ED CHERRY - guitar
JOHN LEE - bass
IGNACIO BERROA - drums
DANIEL PONCE - congas

SET 1

01 Intro - Charles Fox  2:35
02 Prelude and Tocatta  12:54
03 Emanon  4:44
04 Lover Come Back to Me  5:44
05 'Round Midnight  10:30
06 Things to Come  8:13
07 Interview  20:19

SET 2

01 Manteca  14:46
02 Without You, No Me  9:33
03 Night In Tunisia  16:53
04 The Champ  12:04
05 Olinga  11:52
06 Outro - Brian Morton  1:41

Royal Festival Hall, London.  July 1987

D.Gillespie/J.Moody/M.Roach feat. WDR Big Band - live in Moers '81 "Charlie Parker Memorial Concert"

This comes from a request the taper of the concert ("Ilario") made me,
having i a copy of the recording while he has lost the original. I was in
doubt about the request : this could be considered a privatistic use of
the blog, but when "Ilario" promised me a rare bottle of "Brunello di
Montalcino" for the upload, i've changed my opinion...

BTW, not avant-garde, but a very good concert that opened the 10th
Moers Festival : the "glorious" WDR Big Band strengthened by three
icons of the BeBop era in a program dedicated to Bird.

The photo above (taken at the concert) is by the great photographer
and dear friend of us : Luigi Zanon.

Rec. live at the 10th "Moers Festival", Moers, Germany,
on June 5, 1981 (mics recording)

Dizzy Gillespie,trumpet
James Moody,alto saxophone
Max Roach,drums

WDR Big Band : Werner Müller,conductor — Bob Coassin/Rick Kiefer/
Heinz Schachtner/Jupp Keuser,tp — Jiggs Wigham/Dave Horler/Heinz
Zimmermann/Hugo Dörfler,tb — R.Warleigh/Eddi Reisner,as — Harald
Rosenstein/Heiner Wiberny, ts — Paul Peucker,bs — Bora Rokovic,p —
Jean Warland,b — Milan Lulic,gt — Spiro Karras,dr

01. Now's The Time (03:50)
02. Barbados (06:25)
03. Lover Man (04:20)
04. Cool Blues (06:38)
05. 'Round Midnight (08:36)
06. J.C.Moses (04:52)
07. Ornithology (07:17)
08. Moose The Mooche (05:37)
09. Out Of Nowhere (04:20)
10. A Night In Tunisia (10:03)
11. Parker's Mood (05:12)
12. Drums Solo (04:25)
13. Now's The Time (11:31)
14. Bird Of Paradise (09:21)
15. Scrapple From The Apple (05:09)
16. Dexterity (04:18)

Total Time 1:43:49