Grade List: Dizzy Gillespie

  1. Dizzy Gillespie [Charlie Parker]: Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 (1945 [2005], Uptown) B+(***)
  2. Dizzy Gillespie: Shaw 'Nuff (1945-1946 [1992], Musicraft) A
  3. Dizzy Gillespie: Groovin' High (1945-1946 [1992], Savoy) A-
  4. Dizzy Gillespie: Showtime at the Spotlite (1946 [2008], Uptown) B
  5. Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy Gillespie 1945-1946 (1945, Classics)
  6. Dizzy Gillespie: Night in Tunisia (1943, Dreyfus)
  7. Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy Gillespie and His Big Band in Concert (1948, GNP Crescendo)
  8. Dizzy Gillespie [Max Roach]: Dizzy Gillespie / Max Roach in Paris (1948, Disques Vogue) B+
  9. Dizzy Gillespie: Cubana Be, Cubana Bop (1946, Dreyfus)
  10. Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy Gillespie Volumes 1 and 2 (1946, RCA Tribune)
  11. Dizzy Gillespie: Groovin' High: Classic Recordings 1942-1949 (1942-1949 [2002], Naxos Jazz)
  12. Dizzy Gillespie: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1937-1949 [1995], RCA) A-
  13. Dizzy Gillespie: Night in Tunisia: The Very Best of Dizzy Gillespie (1946-1949 [2006], Bluebird/Legacy) A
  14. Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy Gillespie 1947-1949 (1947, Classics)
  15. Dizzy Gillespie: The Dizzy Gillespie Story (1945-1950 [2003], Savoy Jazz) B
  16. Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy Gillespie 1949-1950 (1949, Classics)
  17. Dizzy Gillespie: The Dizzy Gillespie Story 1939-1950 (1939, Proper)
  18. Dizzy Gillespie: School Days (1951, Savoy)
  19. Dizzy Gillespie: Odyssey: 1945-1952 (1945-1952 [2002], Savoy Jazz) A-
  20. Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy Gillespie in Paris Volume 1 (1953, Disques Vogue) A-
  21. Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy Gillespie in Paris Volume 2 (1952, Disques Vogue) A-
  22. Dizzy Gillespie [Stan Getz]: Diz and Getz (1953, Verve)
  23. Dizzy Gillespie: Afro (1954, Verve)
  24. Dizzy Gillespie: For Musicians Only (1956 [1989], Verve) B+
  25. Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy in South America (1956, Consolidated Artists)
  26. Dizzy Gillespie: Live, 1957 (1957, Jazz Unlimited)
  27. Dizzy Gillespie: Sittin' In (1957 [2005], Verve) A-
  28. Dizzy Gillespie: Birks Works (1956-1957 [1995], Verve) B
  29. Dizzy Gillespie [Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins]: Sonny Side Up (1957 [1959], 2025), Verve) B+(***)
  30. Dizzy Gillespie: At Newport (1957, Verve) B
  31. Dizzy Gillespie [Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt]: Duets (1958 [1988], Verve) A
  32. Dizzy Gillespie: Copenhagen Concert (1959 [1992], Steeplechase) B+
  33. Dizzy Gillespie: Gillespiana / Carnegie Hall Concert (1960-1961 [1993], Verve) A-
  34. Dizzy Gillespie: An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (1961 [1999], Verve)
  35. Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy on the French Riviera (1962 [2009], Verve) B+(***)
  36. Dizzy Gillespie: Something Old, Something New (1963 [1998], Verve) B+
  37. Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy Goes Hollywood (1963 [2008], Verve) B+(**)
  38. Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (1963, Philips)
  39. Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy: The Music of John Birks Gillespie (1950-1963 [2005], Verve) B+
  40. Dizzy Gillespie: The Cool World (1964 [2008], Verve) B+(***)
  41. Dizzy Gillespie: Verve Jazz Masters (1952, Verve)
  42. Dizzy Gillespie: Ultimate Dizzy Gillespie (1954, Verve)
  43. Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy's Diamonds: The Best of the Verve Years (1954, Verve)
  44. Dizzy Gillespie: The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra (1965, Blue Note)
  45. Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the 1965 Monterey Jazz Festival (1965 [2007], Monterey Jazz Festival) B+(*)
  46. Dizzy Gillespie: Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (1967 [1995], Impulse) B
  47. Dizzy Gillespie: Portrait of Jenny (1970 [2023], BBE) B+(***)
  48. Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy's Big 4 (1974, Pablo OJC) A-
  49. Dizzy Gillespie: Bahiana (1975, Pablo)
  50. Dizzy Gillespie: Montreux '77 (1977, OJC)
  51. Dizzy Gillespie and Friends: Concert of the Century: A Tribute to Charlie Parker (1980 [2016], Justin Time) B+(*)
  52. Dizzy Gillespie [Max Roach]: Max + Dizzy, Paris 1989 (1989, A&M) B+
  53. Dizzy Gillespie: Career 1937-1992 (1937-1992 [2005], Shout! Factory) A
  54. Dizzy Gillespie: Complete Dial Masters: Modern Jazz Trumpets (1997, Jazz Classics)

Number of A-listed albums: 12 (of 31 rated).

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