List of works by Dizzy Gillespie

This is a list of works by American jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie.

• 1937–1949: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings compilation album (RCA Victor)
• 1945–1947: Groovin' High compilation album (Savoy)
• 1948: Gene Norman Presents Dizzy Gillespie in Concert (GNP Crescendo 23)
• 1950: Bird and Diz (Clef) – with Charlie Parker
• 1951–52: Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions compilation album (Savoy) – includes all tracks on The Champ (Savoy) and School Days (Regent)
• 1952–53: The Great Blue Star Sessions 1952-1953 compilation album (EmArcy) – includes all tracks on Dizzy Gillespie and His Operatic Strings Orchestra (Fontana) and some tracks released on Dizzy at Home and Abroad (Atlantic)
• 1952: Horn of Plenty (Blue Note 1952)
• 1953: Dizzy Digs Paris (Giant Steps) – includes all tracks on Dizzy Over Paris (Roost)
• 1953: Jazz at Massey Hall (Debut) – with Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Max Roach
• 1953: Diz and Getz (Norgran) – with Stan Getz
• 1954: Afro (Norgran)
• 1954: Dizzy and Strings (Norgran)
• 1954: Roy and Diz (Clef) – with Roy Eldridge
• 1954–1964: The Verve/Philips Dizzy Gillespie Small Group Sessions (Mosaic Records)
• 1954–55: Jazz Recital (Norgran) – also released as Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra
• 1955: One Night in Washington (Elektra Musician [1983])
• 1956: Modern Jazz Sextet (Norgran)
• 1956: World Statesman – Big Band (Norgran)
• 1956 and 1957: Dizzy in Greece – Big Band Studio Recordings (Verve)
• 1956: For Musicians Only (Verve) – with Stan Getz and Sonny Stitt
• 1957: Birks' Works – Big Band (Verve)
• 1957: Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith (Verve)
• 1957: Sittin' In (Verve) – with Stan Getz and Coleman Hawkins
• 1957: Dizzy Gillespie at Newport – Big Band (Verve)
• 1957: Duets (Verve) – with Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt
• 1957: The Greatest Trumpet of Them All (Verve) – with Benny Golson
• 1957: Sonny Side Up (Verve) – with Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt
• 1959: The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (Verve)
• 1959: Have Trumpet, Will Excite! (Verve)
• 1960: The Copenhagen Concert (SteepleChase) – with Leo Wright and Junior Mance
• 1960: A Portrait of Duke Ellington (Verve) – arranged by Clare Fischer^[1]
• 1960: Gillespiana (Verve) – composed and arranged by Lalo Schifrin
• 1961: An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (Verve)
• 1961: Carnegie Hall Concert (Verve)
• 1961: Perceptions (Verve) – composed and arranged by J.J. Johnson, conducted by Gunther Schuller
• 1962: Dizzy on the French Riviera (Philips) – with Elek Bacsik
• 1962: The New Continent (Limelight) – composed and arranged by Lalo Schifrin
• 1963: New Wave (Philips) – 8 tracks
• 1963: New Wave! (Wing WL1152) – 7 tracks
• 1963: Something Old, Something New (Philips)
• 1963: Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (Philips)
• 1964: Dizzy Goes Hollywood (Philips)
• 1964: The Cool World (Philips)
• 1964: Jambo Caribe (Limelight)
• 1964: I/We Had a Ball (Limelight, 1965) – 1 track + 3 with Quincy Jones
• 1965: Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie (Pacific Jazz) – with Gil Fuller
• 1966: The Melody Lingers On (Limelight)
• 1967: Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (Impulse!)
• 1967: Live at the Village Vanguard (Solid State)
• 1968: The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band (MPS)
• 1969: It's My Way (Solid State) – also released as My Way
• 1969: Cornucopia (Solid State)
• 1970: The Real Thing (Perception) – with James Moody
• 1970: Portrait of Jenny (Perception)
• 1971: Giants (Perception) – with Bobby Hackett and Mary Lou Williams
• 1971: Dizzy Gillespie and the Mitchell Ruff Duo in Concert (Mainstream) – with Willie Ruff and Dwike Mitchell
• 1971: The Giants of Jazz (Atlantic) – with Art Blakey, Al McKibbon, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt and Kai Winding
• 1973: The Giant (America)
• 1973: The Source (America)
• 1974: Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 (Pablo)
• 1974: The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (Pablo) – with Joe Turner, Roy Eldridge, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Clark Terry
• 1974: Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie (Pablo) – with Oscar Peterson
• 1974: Oscar Peterson and The Trumpet Kings - Jousts (Pablo) – with Oscar Peterson
• 1975: The Bop Session (Sonet) – with Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Hank Jones, Percy Heath and Max Roach
• 1975: Jazz Maturity...Where It's Coming From (Pablo) – with Oscar Peterson and Roy Eldridge
• 1975: Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods (Pablo) – with Machito
• 1975: The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (Pablo) – also released as Dizzy
• 1975: The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75 (Pablo) – with Roy Eldridge, Clark Terry and Oscar Peterson
• 1975: Bahiana (Pablo)
• 1976: Carter, Gillespie Inc. (Pablo) – with Benny Carter
• 1976: Dizzy's Party (Pablo)
• 1977: Free Ride (Pablo) – composed and arranged by Lalo Schifrin
• 1977: The Gifted Ones (Pablo) – with Count Basie
• 1977: Dizzy Gillespie Jam (Pablo) – with Jon Faddis
• 1980: The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (Pablo) – with Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry and Oscar Peterson
• 1980: The Alternate Blues (Pablo) – with Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry and Oscar Peterson
• 1980: Digital at Montreux, 1980 (Pablo)
• 1981: Musician, Composer, Raconteur (Pablo)
• 1981: To a Finland Station (Pablo) – with Arturo Sandoval
• 1984: Closer to the Source (Atlantic)
• 1985: New Faces (GRP)
• 1986: Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet – with Phil Woods
• 1988: Endlessly (Impulse!)
• 1988: Oop-Pop-A-Da (Soundwings) – with Moe Koffman
• 1989: Live at the Royal Festival Hall (Enja) – with the United Nation Orchestra
• 1989: Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (A&M) – with Max Roach
• 1989: The Paris All Stars Homage to Charlie Parker (A&M) with Jackie McLean, Phil Woods, Stan Getz, Milt Jackson, Hank Jones, Percy Heath and Max Roach
• 1989: The Symphony Sessions (ProJazz) and 1991 as A Night in Tunisia (Fast Choice) (with Rochester Philharmonic conducted by Johnny Dankworth, Ron Holloway, Ed Cherry, John Lee)
• 1990: The Winter in Lisbon (Milan Entertainment) – soundtrack
• 1991: Live! at Blues Alley (with Ron Holloway, Ed Cherry, John Lee, Ignacio Berroa)
• 1992: Bird Songs: The Final Recordings (Telarc)
• 1992: To Bird with Love (Telarc)
• 1992: To Diz with Love (Telarc)

With Benny Carter

• New Jazz Sounds (Norgran, 1954)
• In the Mood for Swing (MusicMasters, 1988)

With Arnett Cobb

• Show Time (Fantasy, 1987)

With Chaka Khan

• What Cha' Gonna Do for Me (Warner Bros., 1981)

With CTI All Stars

• Rhythmstick (CTI, 1990)

With Duke Ellington

• Jazz Party (Columbia, 1959)

With Coleman Hawkins

• Rainbow Mist (Delmark, 1944 [1992]) compilation of Apollo recordings

With Quincy Jones

• Back on the Block (Warner Bros., 1989)

With Aretha Franklin

• Who's Zoomin' Who? (Arista, 1985)

With Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich

• Krupa and Rich (Clef, 1955)

With Mike Longo

• Talk with the Spirits (Pablo, 1976)

With the Manhattan Transfer

• Vocalese (Atlantic, 1985)

With Chuck Mangione

• Tarantella (A&M Records, 1981)

With Carmen McRae

• November Girl (Black Lion, 1970 [1975]) with the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band
• At the Great American Music Hall (Blue Note, 1976)

With Charles Mingus

• Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (Columbia, 1972)

With Katie Bell Nubin

• Soul, Soul Searching (Verve, 1960)

With Oscar Peterson

• Oscar Peterson Jam - Montreux '77 (Pablo)

With Mongo Santamaria

• Montreux Heat! (Pablo, 1980)
• Summertime (Pablo, 1980)

With Woody Shaw

• Woody Shaw and Friends at Monterey Jazz Festival 1979 (Concord Jazz, 1979)

With Lillian Terry

• Oo-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be...Oo, Oo...Oo, Oo (Black Saint, 1985)

With Randy Weston

• Spirits of Our Ancestors (Verve, 1993)

With Louie Louie

• Sittin' in the Lap of Luxury (WTG/Epic, 1990)

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This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2021)

• "Anthropology" (AKA "Thriving from a Riff")
• "Be-Bop"
• "Birks' Works"
• "Blue 'n' Boogie"
• "The Champ"
• "Con Alma"
• "Dizzy Atmosphere"
• "Emanon"
• "Fiesta Mojo"
• "Groovin' High"
• "Guachi Guara" (AKA "Soul Sauce")
• "He Beeped When He Shoulda Bopped" (AKA "He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped")
• "In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee"
• "Kush"
• "Lorraine"
• "Manteca"
• "A Night in Tunisia" (AKA "Interlude")
• "One Bass Hit"
• "Ool Ya Koo"
• "Oop Bop Sh'Bam"
• "Ow!"
• "Ray's Idea"
• "Salt Peanuts"
• "Shaw 'Nuff"
• "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac"
• "That's Earl, Brother"
• "Things to Come"
• "Tin Tin Deo"
• "Tour De Force"
• "Two Bass Hit"
• "Woody 'n' You" (AKA "Algo bueno")

• 1946 Jivin' In Be-Bop
• 1983 Jazz in America (Embassy)
• 1986 In Redondo Beach/Jazz in America (Embassy)
• 1991 Dizzy Gillespie: A Night in Tunisia (VIEW)
• 1993 Live in London (Kultur Video)
• 1998 Dizzy Gillespie & Charles Mingus (Vidjazz)
• 1998 Dizzy Gillespie: Ages (Vidjazz)
• 1999 Jazz Casual: Dizzy Gillespie (Rhino)
• 2001 Jivin'in Be-Bop (Jazz Classic Video)
• 2001 Dizzy Gillespie: A Night in Chicago (VIEW)^[3]
• 2001 Live at the Royal Festival Hall 1987 (Pioneer)
• 2002 Live in Montreal (Image)
• 2003 20th Century Jazz Masters
• 2003 Swing Era (with Mel Tormé) (Idem)
• 2005 Norman Granz Jazz in Montreux: Presents Dizzy Gillespie Sextet '77 (Eagle Vision USA)
• 2005 Summer Jazz Live at New Jersey 1987 (FS World Jazz / Alpha Centauri Entertainment)
• 2005 A Night in Havana: Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba (New Video Group) (Filmed in 1985 with Arturo Sandoval and Sayyd Abdul Al Khabyyr)
• 2006 Jazz Icons: Live in '58 & '70 (Universal)
• 2008 London Concerts 1965 & 1966 (Impro-Jazz Spain)

• To Be or Not to Bop. New York: Doubleday, 1979.
• To Be or Not to Bop. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.^[4]