Modern Jazz Sextet

Modern Jazz Sextet
Studio album by Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Skeeter Best, Charlie Persip
Released 1956
Recorded January 12, 1956
Genre Jazz
Label Verve Records/Norgran Records
Producer Norman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology

One Night in Washington
(1955)		 Modern Jazz Sextet
(1956)		 World Statesman
(1956)

Modern Jazz Sextet is a jazz album featuring the combined talents of Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Skeeter Best and Charlie Persip. The album was conceived by producer Norman Granz for his own label, Norgran Records. Although no single album artist is credited as a bandleader for this album, Verve Records - which owns the Norgran catalogue - files it as a Dizzy Gillespie album.

Two of the album's rhythm section - Lewis and Heath - also feature in the 1952-founded Modern Jazz Quartet.

Track listing

  1. "Tour De Force" (Dizzy Gillespie)
  2. "Dizzy Meets Sonny" (Gillespie)
  3. "Ballad Medley: Old Folks/What's New?/How Deep is the Ocean?" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robinson/Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke/Irving Berlin)
  4. "Mean to Me" (Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert)
  5. "Blues for Bird" (Sonny Stitt, Gillespie)

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