The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (Verve By Request Series) – Vinyl LP

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. The band Gillespie assembled for this date – Junior Mance, Les Spann, Sam Jones, & Lex Humphries – was for the most part a working band on the club & concert circuit, offering a mixture of Gillespie’s entertaining songs, established repertoire, & some Latin & African-influenced pieces. With them, Dizzy found a middle ground in his music that gave his legacy room to breathe, but with much more rhythmic variety.