Show results for
Explore
In Stock
Artists
Actors
Authors
Format
Theme
Category
Genre
Rated
Label
Specialty
Decades
Size
Color
Deals
- Blu-ray Outlet
- New Release 4K
- New Release Blu-ray
- New Release DVD
- New Release Gifts
- New Release Music
- New Release Vinyl
- Top Seller 4K
- Top Seller Blu ray
- Top Seller DVD
- Top Seller Vinyl
- top sellers all movies
- top sellers all music
- Top Selling Gifts
- TV Outlet
- Top Seller Music
- DVD Outlet
- In Stock Outlet
- Music Outlet

Gillespiana
- Format: CD
- Release Date: 04/08/1998

Gillespiana
- Artist: Lalo Schifrin
- Label: Aleph Records
- Genre: Latin Jazz
- UPC: 651702632121
Product Notes
As soon as I had joined Dizzy Gillespie's band, he said, "Why don't you write something for us?" His words triggered my imigination, and the ideas started to flow. Diz had been one of my greatest inspirations (still is), and the composition process was intense and exhilarating. A few days later, I took the sketches of "Gillespiana" to his home and played them on the piano. When I finished. He asked me "How are you going to orchestrate this work?" I replied "I hear a jazz quintet... plus a brass band." Diz immediately called Norman Granz who was at that time the head of Verve Records. With the telephone in his hand he asked me how long it would take to arrange it. "Three weeks," was my response. He told Norman, "Book a studio a month from now." And this is how "Gillespiana" was born