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Jambo Caribe
Studio album by
Dizzy Gillespie
Released1964
RecordedNovember 4, 5 & 6, 1964
Universal Studios, Chicago
Genre Jazz
Length32:57
Label Limelight
LS 86007
Producer Hal Mooney
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
The Cool World
(1964) 		Jambo Caribe
(1964) 		Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie
(1965)

Jambo Caribe is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1964 and released on the Limelight label. [1]

Reception

The Allmusic review states "The populist Dizzy Gillespie gets full rein in this lively, happy collection of tunes exploring rhythms and idioms from the Caribbean. Gillespie is in an ebullient mood, even offering some sly lead calypso vocals on three numbers". [2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated

  1. "Fiesta Mo-Jo" – 3:50
  2. "Barbados Carnival" (Chris White) – 2:55
  3. "Jambo" – 4:57
  4. "Trinidad, Hello" (Kenny Barron) – 4:20
  5. "Poor Joe" (Joe Willoughby) – 2:38
  6. "And Then She Stopped" – 3:15
  7. "Don't Try to Keep up with the Joneses" (Willoughby) – 2:36
  8. "Trinidad, Goodbye" (Barron) – 8:26
  • Recorded at Universal Studios in Chicago, Illinois on November 4 (tracks 2 & 6), November 5 (tracks 3–5) and November 6 (tracks 1, 7 & 8), 1964

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Dizzy Gillespie discography accessed April 3, 2012
  2. ^ a b Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed April 3, 2012
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 84. ISBN  0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 554. ISBN  978-0-141-03401-0.
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