''Bahiana'' is an album by

Dizzy Gillespie John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ( ; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improvisation, improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy El ...

recorded in 1975 and released on the Pablo label.Dizzy Gillespie discography
accessed April 17, 2012

Reception

Stewart Mason, in his review for

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, called the album "one of Dizzy Gillespie's finest albums of the decade", commending the "richly expansive tunes ..built on pure carnival rhythms". Alun Morgan of '' Jazz Journal'' highlighted a "subtle interplay" between the jazzmen and

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. The journalist praised both the group as a whole, for their "control and sensitivity", and Dizzy Gillespie specifically, for his "exemplary" trumpet control.

Track listing

''All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated'' # "Carnival" - 8:02 # "Samba" (Mike Longo) - 9:41 # "Barcelona" (Al Gafa) - 12:24 # "In the Land of the Living Dead" (Gafa) - 10:34 # "Behind the Moonbeam" (Gafa) - 7:35 # "The Truth" (Longo) - 8:27 # "Pele" (Gafa) - 7:15 # "Olinga" - 20:00

Personnel

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

*Roger Glenn -

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

bass flute The bass flute is a member of the flute family pitched one octave below the concert flute. The tubing length is twice as long at , which requires a J-shaped head joint to bring the embouchure hole within reach of the player. Despite its name ...

vibraphone The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using Percussion mallet, mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone ...

* Al Gafa, Michael Howell -

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

*Earl May -

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

* Mickey Roker -

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

References

{{Authority control Pablo Records albums Dizzy Gillespie albums Albums produced by Norman Granz 1976 albums