This four-disc, 100-track box set traces famed bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's career from his early years with Teddy Hill, Lionel Hampton and Cab Calloway through his work with figures like Coleman Hawkins and Billy Eckstine. It includes his 1947 concert at Carnegie Hall with Charlie Parker and concludes with the famous sessions that Gillespie recorded with Parker and Thelonious Monk for Norman Granz in 1950. At a budget price, this package captures Gillespie's peak years and performances and makes a deep introduction to this amazing musician. The sound transfers are decent, but audiophiles may find that the noise reduction processes used on these tracks leaves some of them sounding a little on the thin and muted side.
CD 1
01 Blue Rhythm Fantasy 2:45
02 Hot Mallets 2:18
03 Pickin' The Cabbage 2:50
04 Bye Bye Blues 2:55
05 Once In A Lovetime 2:49
06 Stardust 3:27
07 Little John Special 3:12
08 Woody'n'you 2:58
09 Disorder At The Border 2:55
10 I Stay In The Mood For You 2:57
11 I Can't Get Started 3:01
12 Good Bait 3:01
13 Bebop 3:10
14 Perdido 2:55
15 Cherokee 2:54
16 A Night In Tunisia 3:08
17 Groovin' High 2:39
18 Blue 'n' Boogie 2:57
19 Groovin' High 2:41
20 All The Things You Are 2:48
21 Dizzy Atmosphere 2:47
22 Salt Peanuts 3:15
23 Shaw'nuff 2:58
24 Hot House 3:07
25 Get Happy 3:44
26 Congo Blues 3:52
CD 2
01 Ten Lessons With Timothy 2:43
02 Slim's Jam 3:20
03 Dizzy Atmosphere 4:49
04 Diggin' Diz 2:54
05 Confirmation 2:57
06 Diggin' For Diz 2:53
07 Dynamo A 3:04
08 When I Grow Too Old To Dream 2:57
09 'Round About Midnight 2:53
10 The Way You Look Tonight 2:48
11 Why Do I Love You? 2:23
12 Who 2:57
13 All The Things You Are 2:18
14 52nd Street Theme 3:05
15 A Night In Tunisia 3:06
16 Ol' Man Bebop 2:45
17 Anthropology 2:38
18 One Bass Hit Pt.1 2:55
19 Oop-Bop-Sh'bam 3:00
20 That's Earl Brother 2:44
21 Our Delight 2:31
22 Good Dues Blues 3:02
23 Ray's Idea 2:23
24 Things To Come 2:45
25 For Hecklers Only 2:57
26 Smokey Hollow Jump 3:01
27 Boppin' The Blues 3:06
CD 3
01 Moody Speaks 2:33
02 Emanon 3:08
03 Ow! 2:59
04 Oo-Pop-A-Da 3:13
05 Two Bass Hit 2:48
06 Stay On It 3:14
07 A Night In Tunisia 5:08
08 Dizzy Atmosphere 4:03
09 Groovin' High 5:15
10 Confirmation 5:40
11 Ko Ko 4:09
12 Leap Here 3:27
13 Algo Bueno (Woody'N'You) 3:00
14 Cool Breeze 2:46
15 Cubana Be 2:41
16 Cubana Bop 3:08
17 Manteca 3:06
18 Good Bait 2:48
19 Ool-Ya-Koo 2:51
20 Minor Walk 2:45
21 Guarachi Guaro 3:12
22 Duff Capers 4:16
CD 4
01 Lover Come Back to Me 3:33
02 I'm Be Boppin' Too 2:17
03 Swedish Suite 2:55
04 St. Louis Blues 3:07
05 Katy (Dizzier and Dizzier) 3:03
06 Jump Di-Le-Ba 2:32
07 Hey Pete, Le's Eat Mo' Meat 3:02
08 Jumpin' with Symphony Sid 3:05
09 In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee 2:36
10 Say When 3:15
11 You Stole My Wife, You Horsethief 3:12
12 Coast to Coast 3:20
13 Oo-La-La 2:53
14 Bloomdido 3:27
15 An Oscar for Treadwell 3:25
16 Mohawk 3:37
17 My Melancholy Baby 3:26
18 Leap Frog 2:32
19 Relaxin' with Lee 2:49
20 Swing Low Sweet Chariot 2:55
21 Lullaby of the Leaves 2:28
22 What is There to Say 2:46
23 Alone Together 4:45
24 On the Alamo 2:20
25 Interlude in C 2:35
