The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 at the Montreux Jazz Festival

The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 at the Montreux Jazz Festival is a live album by Dizzy Gillespie recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 16th, 1975 and released on the Pablo later that year.

Reception

The AllMusic review called the album a "good but not great set... There are many moments that elicit grins of pleasure, but none that cause jaws to gape with astonishment".

Track listing

1. "Lover, Come Back to Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) – 16:43
2. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 16:02 <small>Bonus track on CD reissue</small>
3. "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) – 12:13
4. "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) – 11:01

Personnel

• Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Johnny Griffin – tenor saxophone
• Milt Jackson – vibraphone
• Tommy Flanagan – piano
• Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – bass
• Mickey Roker – drums

References