Dizzy Gillespie - Gillespiana/Carnegie Hall Concert

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Free Music Notes for Gillespiana/Carnegie Hall Concert

Free Music Review: I think this is too improvized
Hit: 2 Stars

However, on this record, I think a lot was
totally improvized, and perhaps, politically
motivated, perhaps inspired by social or
political worries or pressures felt at the
time it was recorded, for example.

There's quite little jazz, in the jazz standards
sense of the term, and a lot more improvization,
not latino beats or even innovative Charlie Parker
or Dizzy-style creations, but bizarre, Austral
Africa beats and rhythms, that have nothing
to do with North America, Cuba or even Central
American beats. I don't object to a rabid passion
of African rhythms shown here, it's just that I didn't
expect standard jazz to improvize almost entirely, on
one album, on African beats alone. And I do mean
improvize ... and poorly, at that. Perhaps Dizzy at
the time, to strengthen African American civil rights
felt he needed to release an album underlining African
rhythms to bring attention to political motivations
or tensions.

But, essentially, this 2CD is boring, a bit embarassing,
and a waste from the failed improvization by the orchestra.

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