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Afro
Studio album by
Dizzy Gillespie
Released1954
RecordedMay 24 and June 3, 1954
New York City
Genre Afro-Cuban jazz, bebop
Length33:05
Label Norgran
MGN 1003
Producer Norman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Diz and Getz
(1953) 		Afro
(1954) 		Dizzy and Strings
(1954)

Afro is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, released in 1954 on the Norgran label. [1] Gillespie worked with many Cuban musicians on the album. [2]

Reception

The AllMusic review states "Pairing Dizzy Gillespie with Cuban arranger/composer Chico O'Farrill produced a stunning session which originally made up the first half of a Norgran LP... A later small-group session features the trumpeter with an all-Latin rhythm section and flutist Gilberto Valdes... it is well worth acquiring." [3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [4]

Track listing

  1. " Manteca Theme" ( Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo) - 4:10
  2. "Contraste" (Gillespie, Chico O'Farrill, Pozo) - 2:45
  3. "Jungla" (Gillespie, O'Farrill, Pozo) - 4:44
  4. "Rhumba Finale" (Gillespie, O'Farrill, Pozo) - 4:43
  5. " A Night in Tunisia" (Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) - 4:19
  6. " Con Alma" (Gillespie) - 5:05
  7. " Caravan" ( Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) - 7:19

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Dizzy Gillespie discography accessed March 28, 2012
  2. ^ Njoroge, Njoroge M. (June 16, 2016). Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN  9781496806925 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b Dryden, K. Allmusic Review accessed March 28, 2012
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 553. ISBN  978-0-141-03401-0.
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