The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie

1959 studio album by Dizzy Gillespie

Studio album by Dizzy Gillespie

Released

1959

Recorded

February 17, 18 & 20, 1959
New York City

Genre

Jazz

Length

44:54

Label

Verve
MGV 8328

Producer

Norman Granz

Dizzy Gillespie chronology

Sonny Side Up
(1957)

The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie
(1959)

Have Trumpet, Will Excite!
(1959)

The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, recorded in 1959 and released on the Verve label.

Reception

The AllMusic review calls the album "a pleasing -- if not all that essential -- date of melodic music from the masterful trumpeter."

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
DownBeat
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Track listing

All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated

"Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac" - 7:06
"Always" (Irving Berlin) - 5:34
"Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 7:20
"Ungawa" (Gillespie, Oswaldo Nuñez) - 3:19
"Lorraine" - 4:14
"Girl of My Dreams" (Sunny Clapp) - 7:41
"Constantinople" - 7:00
"Umbrella Man" (Vincent Rose, Larry Stock, James Cavanaugh) - 2:40

The Fresh Sound 2-CD set also includes the complete Have Trumpet Will Excite Album

Personnel

Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet, (vocals track 1 and 8)
Junior Mance - piano
Les Spann - guitar, flute
Sam Jones - bass
Lex Humphries - drums
Carlos "Patato" Valdes - congas (tracks 4 and 5)

References

Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN 9781440229169 – via Google Books.
Dizzy Gillespie discography accessed March 23, 2012
^ Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed March 23, 2012
Gitler, Ira (26 May 1960). "Dizzy Gillespie: The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie". DownBeat. Vol. 27, no. 11. p. 28.
Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.

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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 (1959) 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) I/We Had a Ball (1965) 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 (1983) Closer to the Source (1984) New Faces (1985) Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet (1986) Endlessly (1988) 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	Modern Jazz Trumpets (1951) 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)
Soundtracks	The Cool World (1964) The Winter in Lisbon (1990)
Compositions	"Anthropology" "Birks' Works" "Blue 'n' Boogie" "Con Alma" "Dizzy Atmosphere" "Groovin' High" "Manteca" "A Night in Tunisia" "Oop Bop Sh'Bam" "Salt Peanuts" "Woody 'n' You"
Books	To Be or Not to Bop (1979)
Related articles	List of works Bird (1988 film)

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