The Winter in Lisbon

Dizzy Gillespie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 5, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Milan Records
• ASIN: B0002XL2W0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #610,089 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Opening Theme

2. San Sebastian

3. Lucretia's Theme

4. Magic Summer (vocal: Leola Jiles)

5. Isthmus

6. Magic Summer (orchestral version)

7. Lisbon

8. Magic Summer

9. Lisbon

10. Magic Summer (piano version)

11. Burma

12. Bill's Song

13. Final Theme

Editorial Reviews

Originally released in 1990, Milan Records is proud to reissue the Dizzy Gillespie jazz classic, The Winter in Lisbon, with all new artwork for a new generation of true jazz fans. Co-writing many of the selections with Dizzy are Panamanian pianist and composer Danilo Pérez and producer Charles Fishman. In retrospect, after his death in 1993, critics hailed The Winter in Lisbon as the best work of Dizzy Gillespie's long and prolific career.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Elegiac, Elegant. . . ., March 24, 2007

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This review is from: Winter in Lisbon (Audio CD)

One of the very best of latter-day Dizzy Gillespie albums! Originally intended as a movie soundtrack, "The Winter in Lisbon" is at once fanciful, playful, smooth and supremely elegant. The album features mostly slow, elegiac meditations like "Magic Summer" and "Lisbon," where Gillespie's muted trumpet intertwines beautifully with soft, shadowy piano to produce a feeling of introspection, winsomeness. Very often the songs conjure feelings of lost or unattainable love. This is jazz at its best--mostly quiet, contemplative and never once boring! Elsewhere, Gillespie is considerably more uptempo on the jaunty latin-inspired waltz of "San Sebastian." Oddly enough, this moody CD was recorded quite a few years before Gillespie's death, yet it feels as though he recorded his own epitaph here. If ever there was one essential Dizzy Gillespie album worth collecting, this one is it!!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Diz is the truth!, November 28, 2003

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dig-it-the-most "dig-it-the-most" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Winter in Lisbon (Audio CD)

This is one of Diz's final recordings. It comes from the film by the same name. The film was pretty poor, but the music is sound! This recording also features some top jazz musicians in George Mraz on bass and Danilo Perez on piano.

Though Diz's chop ain't what they used to be, his ideas are strong. Dizzy Gillespie still looms large in all of the American music.