Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra - Musicraft 447 (1946)

I always like to point out Tar Heel references when it comes to jazz musicians and recordings but I can't quite do it with John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie...he was born JUST below the North Carolina border in Cheraw, South Carolina.

I can, however, connect Cheraw to my family as my grandparents eloped in Cheraw just a few years before these sides were recorded.

Dizzy Gillespie t, dir / Dave Burns, Talib Dawud, Elmon Wright, John Lynch t / Alton Moore, Leon Comegys, Gordon Thomas tb / John Brown, Howard Johnson as / James Moody, Warren Luckey ts / Sol 'Pee Wee' Moore bar / Milt Jackson vib / John Lewis p / Ray Brown sb / Kenny Clarke d.

Recorded in New York on July 9, 1946.

Dizzy Gillespie t, dir / Dave Burns, Elmon Wright, Matthew McKay, John Lynch t / Alton Moore, Joe 'Taswell' Baird, Gordon Thomas tb / John Brown, Scoops Carry as / James Moody, Bill Frazier ts / Sol 'Pee Wee' Moore bar / Milt Jackson vib / John Lewis p / Ray Brown sb / Joe Harris d.

Recorded in New York on November 12, 1946.

1946 Newspaper Clipping