from the Aldeburgh Festival Concert Hall
A weekly series featuring some of the world's top jazz artists in concert
Tonight:
A second programme by The Dizzy Gillespie Big Band Reunion
Introduced by Benny Green
(The Dizzy Gillespie Big Band Reunion appear by arrangement with Harold Davison)

John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie is one of the most gifted and ebullient musicians in jazz history. A founding father of the new modernism of the 1940s, he is a man of widely diffused talents, a trumpeter of great harmonic ingenuity and spectacular stratospheric effects, a gifted orchestrator and composer, and an organiser of other musicians second to none, a fact which has great bearing on this evening's programme.
Gillespie is probably jazz's first original orchestral leader since Duke Ellington, and it is surprising that the group on view this evening is the first Gillespie big band to be seen in Britain for some time. This alone would make the programme an occasion, but there is also the musical content itself, which, true to the man, is brilliant without being flashy, profound without being solemn.
(Colour)