Product Details

• Actors: Dizzy Gillespie
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Eagle Rock Ent
• DVD Release Date: March 22, 2005
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007OP21Q
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #179,348 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This program celebrates Granz's pioneering legacy with a live performance by trumpet legend Dizzy Gillespie at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in 1977. Backed by a sextet, Gillespie performs classic numbers such as "Girl of My Dreams," "Get Happy," and "Here's That Rainy Day".

Track Listing:
1. Girl of My Dreams
2. Get Happy
3. Once in a While
4. But Beautiful
5. Here's that Rainy Day
6. The Champ
7. Here it Is

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good show - but BEWARE! lineup is not as written here..., June 27, 2005

By 

jazz spazz (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Norman Granz Jazz in Montreux Presents Dizzy Gillespie Sextet '77 (DVD)

This is a very good performance but the lineup does NOT include Joe Pass, Zoot Sims, et al. The true line up has Jon Faddis, Ray Brown and Milt Jackson. I ordered this DVD thinking it was the Montreux performance with all the players including Pass and Sims and others, but it was not. But I love Jackson playing vibes and Dizzy's mature style is great too, so I'd recommend this anyway. These Montreux Festival DVDs overall seem like a good way to build up your straight-forward jazz DVD collection.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dizzy, Jon, Milt, Monty, Ray and Jimmie, April 26, 2011

By 

Nikica Gilic - See all my reviews

This review is from: Norman Granz Jazz in Montreux Presents Dizzy Gillespie Sextet '77 (DVD)

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

This GREAT Gillespie concert, with some of the best playing I've heard from him in the 1970s so far, has all the tracks from
Dizzy Gillespie Jam: Montreux '77, plus one - the encore of the concert...
It would be fine if DVD and CD identified this great group in the same way, so that nobody gets confused and buys both DVD and CD, thinking he's buying different concert recordings, but let's not be too demanding of music industry... It's a mirracle these things are still available on the market... Apparently, Dizzy's regular rhythm section ended up in Nederlands, due to some mix-up with the flight schedules and plane-changes, so Dizzy and Jon Faddis were stranded in Montreux with their trumpets, but without the rest of the band...
Thankfully, Norman Granz had a certain penchant for organisation
(and he knew some of the best people in the business), so he hired Ray Brown (b) and Jimmmie Smith (dm); Brown recommended Monty Alexander for the piano spot and, when Granz added the one and only Milt Jackson (vb), this became a jam session more than Dizzy Gillespie sextet session (CD has the more accurate title than the DVD)...

The music is swinging really hard and the only actual quibble I have is that the young and tallented Jon Faddis didn't try to "attack" Dizzy; he sounds (to me, here, at this concert) maybe too similar to Dizzy for his own good (down to the curved trumpet). However, that doesn't mean his playing is not great, or that he in any way diminishes the music. On the contrary, my wishful thinking in no way made me enjoy this DVD any less...
And knowing most songs from the CD didn't matter either - seing Dizzy Ray Brown or Milt in action is priceless and, since I've seen Jon Faddis live recently, it's quite interesting to compare that memory with the image and sound of this fresh young and lean player... Monty Alexander is no slouch himself (as far as visual attractions go, he can switch from "normal" mainstream playing to playing the piano strings as if they were on guitar...)...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Swinging, April 19, 2007

By 

S J Buck (Kent, UK) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Norman Granz Jazz in Montreux Presents Dizzy Gillespie Sextet '77 (DVD)

You know from the start this is going to be great. Ray Brown and Dizzy get things going with a gentle intro to 'Girl of my Dreams'. The camera pans out and the band swings. Monty Alexander on Piano, Jimmie Smith Drums, Milt Jackson vibes and a young Jon Faddis also on Trumpet.

The remaining tracks are:
Get Happy
Once In A While
But Beautiful
Heres That Rainy Day
The Champ
Here 'Tis

If you like good swinging Jazz you'll like this. All the other DVDs in this series are worth getting as well.