Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions

Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions is a compilation album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie featuring performances recorded in 1951 and 1952 and originally released on Gillespie's own Dee Gee Records label.[1] Many of the tracks were first released as 78 rpm records but were later released on albums including School Days (Regent) and The Champ (Savoy).

Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions
Compilation album by
Released1976
RecordedMarch 1, April 16, August 16 and October 25, 1951 in New York City July 18, 1952 in Chicago
GenreJazz
Length72:20
LabelSavoy
SJL 2209
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Bird and Diz
(1952)
Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions
(1976)
The Great Blue Star Sessions 1952-1953
(2004)

Reception

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Professional ratings
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Allmusic     [2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide     [3]

The Allmusic review stated "Instrumentally concise, always with a harmonic depth and technical brilliance that punctuates bebop, and a recording technology enhanced from the '40s, Dee Gee Days will stand forever as one of the most important albums in jazz history, and belongs in every serious – or whimsical – jazz lover's collection – period!"[2]

Track listing

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All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated

  1. "Tin Tin Deo" (Gillespie, Gil Fuller, Chano Pozo) – 2:43
  2. "Birks' Works" – 3:07
  3. "We Love to Boogie" – 2:53
  4. "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:42
  5. "Love Me Pretty Baby" (Kenny Clarke) – 3:03
  6. "The Champ" – 5:39
  7. "I'm In a Mess" (A. White, P. White) – 2:13
  8. "School Days" (Will D. Cobb, Gus Edwards) – 3:09
  9. "Swing Low Sweet Cadillac" – 3:10
  10. "Bopsie's Blues" [alternate take] – 3:16
  11. "Bopsie's Blues" – 2:34
  12. "I Couldn't Beat the Rap" – 2:56
  13. "Caravan" [alternate take] (Juan Tizol) – 2:56
  14. "Caravan" (Tizol) – 2:54
  15. "Nobody Knows" (Clarke) – 2:40
  16. "The Bluest Blues" (Gary McFarland, Sir Charles Thompson) – 2:55
  17. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:08
  18. "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael) – 3:03
  19. "Time on My Hands" (Vincent Youmans, Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon) – 2:24
  20. "Blue Skies" (Irving Berlin) – 2:19
  21. "Umbrella Man" (James Cavanaugh, Vincent Rose, Larry Stock) – 2:26
  22. "Confessin' (Pop's)" (Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds) – 3:33
  23. "Ooh-Shoo-Be-Doo-Bee" (Gillespie, Joe Carroll, Bill Graham) – 3:21
  24. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 3:45

Recorded in New York City on March 1 (tracks 1–3), April 16 (tracks 4–6), August 16 (tracks 7–12), October 25 (tracks 13–19), 1951 and in Chicago on July 18 (tracks 20–24), 1952

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Dizzy Gillespie discography accessed March 28, 2012
  2. ^ a b Nastos, M. G. Allmusic Review accessed March 28, 2012
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 83. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.