Bahiana Explained

Bahiana
Type:	Album
Artist:	Dizzy Gillespie
Border:	yes
Released:	1976
Recorded:	November 19 & 20, 1975 Los Angeles, California
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	75:23
Label:	Pablo 2625-708
Producer:	Norman Granz
Chronology:	Dizzy Gillespie
Prev Title:	The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75
Prev Year:	1975
Next Title:	Carter, Gillespie Inc.
Next Year:	1976

Bahiana is an album by Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1975 and released on the Pablo label.^[1]

Reception

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.^[2]

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

• Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet
• Roger Glenn - flute, bass flute, vibraphone
• Al Gafa, Michael Howell - guitar
• Earl May - bass
  • Mickey Roker - drums Paulinho Da Costa - percussion

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/dizzy-gillespie/catalog/#pablo-2625-708 Dizzy Gillespie discography
2. Morgan. Alun. Alun Morgan. July 1976. 7. 29. Record Reviews: Dizzy Gillespie – Bahiana. Jazz Journal. 30. London. 0307-4439. Novello & Co.