Early Classics
Nikica Gilic | Zagreb, Croatia | 01/07/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"How do you select the most important early Gillespie big band and small group tracks? You don't - you acquire it all!
The music here is absolutely brilliant, but why is it not an entire box, I ask myself...
With Charlie Parker, Milt Jackson, young Sarah Vaughan on one song, Sonny Stitt, Dexter Gordon and other confreres, Gillespie cuts classic after classic, interspersed with just a few mediocre performances (that probably went after commercial appeal)...
Since most of these songs are essential, but there are not enough of them, this is perfect for Gillespie beginners (actually, it's probably obligatory for them...)..."