A Musical Safari Live At The 1961 Monterey Jazz Festival is a live album by the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet featuring Lalo Schifrin.
Gillespie had been interested in Latin rhythms since the 1940s and popular culture caught up with him in the bossa nova craze of the early 1960s.
Playing on the album are:
Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet, vocals,
Joe Carroll – vocals,
Leo Wright – saxophone, flute,
Lalo Schifrin – piano,
Bob Cunningham – bass,
Chuck Lampkin – drums.
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Songs On Dizzy Gillespie A Musical Safari
The vinyl album has the following tracks:
Disc: 1
1. Dukes Intro & Dizzys Rap
2. Desafinado
3. Lorraine
4. Long Long Summer
Disc: 2
1. Oo Pop A Dah
2. Pau De Arara
3. Kush
The CD features four bonus tracks:
1. Announcements By Duke Ellington & Dizzy Gillespie
2. Desafinado
3. Lorraine
4. Long, Long Summer
5. Oo-pop-a-da
6. Pau De Arara
7. Kush
8. Kush #2
9. Salt Peanuts
10. A Night in Tunisia
11. The Mooche
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