Recordings

Partial Discography¹

• 1950: Modern Trumpets (Dial)
• 1950: Dizzy Gillespie Plays/Johnny Richards Conducts 10-inch album (Discovery)
• 1952: Dizzy Gillespie aka School Days (Dee Gee)
• 1952: Dizzy Gillespie Volume 1 10-inch album (Atlantic)
• 1952: Dizzy Gillespie Volume 2 10-inch album (Atlantic)
• 1953: Pleyel Concert (Vogue)
• 1953: Horn Of Plenty 10-inch album (Blue Note)
• 1953: Dizzy Gillespie With Charlie Christian 10-inch album (Esoteric)
• 1953: Dizzy Gillespie With Strings (Clef)
• 1953: Dizzy In Paris 10-inch album (Contemporary)
• 1953: Dizzy Over Paris aka Concert In Paris (Roost)
• 1954: Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra 10-inch album (Allegro)
• 1954: Dizzy Gillespie And His Original Big Band 10-inch album (Gene Norman)
• 1954: Dizzier And Dizzier (RCA Victor)
• 1954: The Dizzy Gillespie-Stan Getz Sextet #1 10-inch album (Norgran)
• 1954: The Dizzy Gillespie-Stan Getz Sextet #2 10-inch album (Norgran)
• 1954: Afro (Norgran)
• 1954: Dizzy Gillespie Plays 10-inch album (Allegro)
• 1955: Dizzy And Strings aka Diz Big Band (Norgran)
• 1955: with Stan Getz Diz And Getz (Verve)
• 1955: with Roy Eldridge Roy And Diz (Clef)
• 1955: with Eldridge Roy And Diz, Volume 2 (Clef)
• 1955: Dizzy Gillespie (Allegro)
• 1955: Groovin’ High (Savoy Jazz)
• 1955: with Jimmy McPartland Hot Vs. Cool (MGM)
• 1956: Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra aka Jazz Recital (Norgran)
• 1956: Dizzy Gillespie (American Recording Society)
• 1956: Big Band Jazz (American Recording Society)
• 1956: with Eldridge Trumpet Battle (Clef)
• 1956: with Eldridge The Trumpet Kings (Clef)
• 1956: The Champ (Savoy Jazz)
• 1956: The New Continent (Limelight)
• 1956: For Musicians Only (Verve)
• 1956: World Statesman (Norgran)
• 1957: Dizzy At Home And Abroad (Atlantic)
• 1957: The Dizzy Gillespie Story (Savoy Jazz)
• 1957: Dizzy In Greece (Verve)
• 1958: Manteca (Verve)
• 1958: Dizzy Gillespie And Stuff Smith (Verve)
• 1958: with Slim Gaillard Gaillard And Gillespie (Ultraphonic)
• 1958: with Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison, Eldridge Tour De Force (Verve)
• 1958: Birk’s Works (Verve)
• 1958: At Newport (Verve)
• 1958: Dizzy Gillespie And Count Basie At Newport (Verve)
• 1958: with Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt Duets aka Dizz, Rollings & Stitt (Verve)
• 1959: with Charlie Parker Diz ‘N’ Bird In Concert (Roost)
• 1959: The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (Verve)
• 1959: Have Trumpet, Will Excite! (Verve)
• 1959: The Greatest Trumpet Of Them All (Verve)
• 1960: A Portrait Of Duke Ellington (Verve)
• 1960: Gillespiana: The Carnegie Hall Concert (Verve)
• 1961: with Count Basie First Time! The Count Meets The Duke (Columbia)
• 1961: An Electrifying Evening With The Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (Verve)
• 1961: Perceptions (Verve)
• 1961: Jazz Recital (Verve)
• 1962: with Miles Davis, Fats Navarro Trumpet Giants (New Jazz)
• 1962: Jazz On The French Riviera (Philips)
• 1963: Dateline Europe (Reprise)
• 1963: New Wave! (Philips)
• 1963: Something Old, Something New (Philips)
• 1964: Dizzy Goes Hollywood (Philips)
• 1964: Dizzy Gillespie And The Double Six Of Paris (Philips)
• 1964: The Cool World film soundtrack (Philips)
• 1964: Jambo Caribe (Limelight)
• 1965: The New Continent (Limelight)
• 1964: The Essential Dizzy Gillespie (Verve)
• 1965: Angel City (Moon)
• 1965: Gil Fuller And The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra With Dizzy Gillespie (Pacific Jazz)
• 1966: with Eldridge Soul Mates (Verve)
• 1966: A Night In Tunisia (Verve)
• 1967: Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (Impulse!)
• 1968: Reunion Big Band (MPS)
• 1969: Live At The Village Vanguard (Solid State)
• 1969: My Way (Solid State)
• 1969: Cornacopia (Solid State)
• 1970: The Real Thing (Perception)
• 1970: Giants (Perception)
• 1970: Portrait Of Jenny (Perception)
• 1971: Dizzy Gillespie And The Dwike Mitchell-Willie Ruff Duo (Mainstreem)
• 1973: Giants of Jazz (Atlantic)
• 1973: The Giant (Accord)
• 1974: Dizzy Gillespie’s Big Four (Pablo)
• 1975: with Machito Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods (Pablo)
• 1975: with Eldridge Jazz Maturity… Where It’s Coming From (Pablo)
• 1975: with Eldridge The Trumpet Kings At Montreux ’75 (Pablo)
• 1976: Dizzy’s Party (Pablo)
• 1977: Free Ride (Pablo)
• 1977: with Count Basie The Gifted Ones (Pablo)
• 1977: Montreux ’77 (Pablo)
• 1980: Trumpet Summit Meets Oscar Peterson Big Four (Pablo)
• 1980: with Mongo Santamaria, Toots Thielemans Summertime (Pablo)
• 1981: Musician-Composer-Raconteur (Pablo)
• 1982: with Arturo Sandoval To A Finland Station (Pablo)
• 1984: New Faces (GRP)
• 1985: Arturo Sandoval And His Group With Dizzy Gillespie (Egrem)
• 1985: Closer To The Source (Atlantic)
• 1987: Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet (Timeless)
• 1990: Live At The Royal Festival Hall (Enja)
• 1990: Symphony Sessions (Pro Arte)
• 1990: with Max Roach Max & Dizzy - Paris 1989 (A&M)
• 1990: The Winter In Lisbon film soundtrack (Milan)
• 1992: To Diz With Love: Diamond Jubilee Recordings (Telarc)
• 1992: To Bird With Love: Live At The Blue Note (Telarc)
• 1997: Bird Songs: the Final recordings 1991 recording (Telarc)
• 1998: the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars Dizzy’s 80th “Birthday Party!” (Shanachie)
• 1998: On The Sunny Side Of The Street 1953 recording (Moon)
• 1998: Angel City 1965 recording (Moon)
• 1998: Tour De Force 1969 recording (Moon)
• 1998: with Sonny Stitt Diz Meets Stitt 1974 recording (Moon)
• 1998: Dizzy In South America Vol. 1 1956 recordings (Red Anchor)
• 2000: Dizzy In South America Vol. 2 1956 recordings (Consolidated Artists)

Partial Videography¹

• 1995: A Night In Chicago (View Video)
• 2000: Ralph J. Gleason’s Jazz Casual: Dizzy Gillespie (Rhino)

References

1. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music pp. 2150