Dizzy on the French Riviera

Live album by Dizzy Gillespie

Released

May 1962

Recorded

1962

Genre

Jazz

Length

51:59

Dizzy Gillespie chronology

Perceptions
(1961)

Dizzy on the French Riviera
(1962)

New Wave
(1962)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat	^[1]
Allmusic	^[2]

Dizzy on the French Riviera is a 1962 live album by Dizzy Gillespie, arranged by Lalo Schifrin. ^[3]

Track listing

"No More Blues" (Antonio Carlos Jobim-Vinicius de Moraes) – 10:20
"Long, Long Summer" (Lalo Schifrin) – 5:15
"I Waited for You" (Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie) – 2:44
"Desafinado" (Jobim-Mendonça) – 3:27
"Here It Is" (Gillespie) – 8:33
"Pau de Arara" (Schifrin arrangement of the original Brazilian folk song by Luiz Gonzaga & Guio de Morais) – 3:38
"For the Gypsies" (Gillespie) – 4:34

Personnel

Performance

Lalo Schifrin – piano
Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet, vocals
Leo Wright - flute, alto saxophone, vocals
Elek Bacsik - guitar
Chris White - double bass
Rudy Collins - drums
Pepito Riestria - percussion
Charlie Ventura - tenor saxophone, bass saxophone

References

↑ Down Beat: January 17, 1963 vol. 30, no. 2
↑ Allmusic review
↑ Dizzy on the French Riviera at AllMusic

Dizzy Gillespie

Studio albums	Bird and Diz (1952) Afro (1954) Diz and Getz (1955) Dizzy and Strings (1954) Roy and Diz (1954) Jazz Recital (1956) The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956) World Statesman (1956) Dizzy in Greece (1956) For Musicians Only (1956) Birks' Works (1957) Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith (1957) Sittin' In (1957) Duets (1957) The Greatest Trumpet of Them All (1957) Sonny Side Up (1957) The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (1959) Have Trumpet, Will Excite! (1959) A Portrait of Duke Ellington (1960) Gillespiana (1960) Perceptions (1961) The New Continent (1962) New Wave (1963) Something Old, Something New (1963) Dizzy Goes Hollywood (1964) Jambo Caribe (1964) Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie (1965) The Melody Lingers On (1966) It's My Way (1969) Cornucopia (1969) The Real Thing (1970) Portrait of Jenny (1970) Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 (1974) The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (1974) Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie (1974) Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings – Jousts (1974) The Bop Session (1975) Jazz Maturity...Where It's Coming From (1975) Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods (1975) Bahiana (1975) Carter, Gillespie Inc. (1976) Dizzy's Party (1976) Free Ride (1977) The Gifted Ones (1977) The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (1980) The Alternate Blues (1980) To a Finland Station (1981) Closer to the Source (1984) New Faces (1985) Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet (1986) Oop-Pop-A-Da (1988)

Live albums	Jazz at Massey Hall (1953) Dizzy Gillespie at Newport (1957) An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (1961) Carnegie Hall Concert (1961) Dizzy on the French Riviera (1962) Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (1963) Live at the Village Vanguard (1967) Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (1967) The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band (1968) Dizzy Gillespie and the Mitchell Ruff Duo in Concert (1971) Giants (1971) The Giants of Jazz (1971) The Giant (1973) The Source (1973) The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (1975) The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75 (1975) Dizzy Gillespie Jam (1977) Digital at Montreux, 1980 (1980) Musician, Composer, Raconteur (1981) One Night in Washington (1983) Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1989) Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (1989) Bird Songs: The Final Recordings (1992) To Bird with Love (1992) To Diz with Love (1992)

Compilation albums	Groovin' High (1955) Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions (1976) The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1995) The Great Blue Star Sessions 1952-1953 (2004) Dizzy Digs Paris (2006)

Soundtrack albums	The Cool World (1964) The Winter in Lisbon (1990)

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