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Roy and Diz

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    Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): PWR 27276

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    2 LPs on 1 CD: ROY AND DIZ/ROY AND DIZ VOLUME 2.
    Personnel: Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie (vocals, trumpet); Oscar Peterson (piano); Herb Ellis (guitar); Ray Brown (bass); Louis Bellson (drums).
    Producer: Norman Granz.
    Reissue producer: Michael Lang.
    Recorded at Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, California on October 29, 1954. Includes liner notes by Richard M. Sudhalter.
    Digitally remastered by Phil Schaap.
    This set features two sizzling horns mingling in a decidedly frenetic dance contest. These songs hop and bounce with enduring vitality. A definite coolness exists within the searing solos of the two trumpet kings as they empty their lungs, executing mind-spinning, scale-like passages and high notes, and there's a palpable sense of competition as they take turns performing their acrobatic brass-work. They can both propel notes from their horns like nobody's business, yet their tonal and stylistic differences create two distinct elements within the music.
    Bassist Ray Brown's tempos provide a cool structure for the flurries of notes the trumpets cast forth. Some of the most poetic moments from these 1954 recordings are when their collaboration intertwines them within the passages, but their supercharged blowing naturally finds a subtler ground and tact when they come together in a musical braid work that's no less affecting than their solos.

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