Bahiana

Bahiana
Studio album by
Dizzy Gillespie
Released1976
RecordedNovember 19 & 20, 1975
StudiosLos Angeles, California
GenreJazz
Length75:23
LabelsPablo
2625-708
ProducerNorman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75
(1975)		 Bahiana
(1976)		 Carter, Gillespie Inc.
(1976)
Reissue cover

Bahiana is a 1976 double album by American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1975 and released on Pablo.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllmusicStarStarStarStar
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record GuideStarStarStarStarStar
The Penguin Guide to Jazz RecordingsStarStarStar

Stewart Mason, in his review for AllMusic, 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 Paulinho Da Costa. 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

  1. "Carnival" – 8:02
  2. "Samba" (Mike Longo) – 9:41
  3. "Barcelona" (Al Gafa) – 12:24
  4. "In the Land of the Living Dead" (Gafa) – 10:34
  5. "Behind the Moonbeam" (Gafa) – 7:35
  6. "The Truth" (Longo) – 8:27
  7. "Pele" (Gafa) – 7:15
  8. "Olinga" – 20:00

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Dizzy Gillespie discography accessed April 17, 2012
  2. 1 2 Mason, Stewart. Bahiana at AllMusic
  3. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 83. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 555. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ↑ Morgan, Alun (July 1976). "Record Reviews: Dizzy Gillespie – Bahiana". Jazz Journal. Vol. 29, no. 7. London: Novello & Co. p. 30. ISSN 0307-4439.