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Gil Fuller: Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie

In December 1965, “Pacific Jazz” label released “Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie”, album by Gil Fuller featuring Dizzy Gillespie (second Gil Fuller album overall). It was recorded in October 1965, at “Pacific Jazz Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Richard Bock.

Personnel:

  • Gil Fuller – conductor, arrangements 
  • Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet
  • Gabe Baltazar, Buddy Collette – alto saxophone
  • Bill Green, Carrington Visor – tenor saxophone
  • Jack Nimitz – baritone saxophone
  • John Audino, Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison, Freddie Hill, Melvin Moore – trumpet
  • 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
  • Richard Bock – recording
  • Ron McMaster – mastering
  • Achille Perilli – painting
  • Arthur Adams – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Gil Fuller except where notes.

  1. Man from Monterey – Phil Moore
  2. Angel City
  3. Love Theme from the Sandpiper – Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster
  4. Groovin’ High – Dizzy Gillespie
  5. Be’s That Way
  6. Big Sur
  7. Moontide
  8. Things Are Here – Dizzy Gillespie

Abbey Lincoln: That’s Him!

In December 1957, “Riverside” label released “That’s Him!”, the second Abbey Lincoln album. It was recorded in October 1957, at “Reeves Sound Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews.

Personnel:

  • Abbey Lincoln – vocals
  • Kenny Dorham – trumpet
  • Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
  • Wynton Kelly – piano, bass
  • Paul Chambers – bass
  • Max Roach – drums

Track listing:

  1. Strong Man – Oscar Brown, Jr.
  2. Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe – Harold Arlen, E.Y. “Yip” Harburg
  3. My Man – Jacques Charles, Channing Pollack, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain
  4. Tender as a Rose – Phil Moore
  5. That’s Him – Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill
  6. I Must Have That Man! – Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh
  7. Porgy – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward
  8. When a Woman Loves a Man – Bernie Hanighen, Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Mercer
  9. Don’t Explain – Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday