Dizzy Gillespie - Manteca

Recorded in 1982 at Lincoln Center, captures legendary jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie performing with his Dream Band, consisting of a wide array of jazz music’s finest musicians, many of whom worked with Gillespie during the evolutionary era of the early-’40s bebop period. It includes an all-star cast highlighted by pyrotechnic drum wizard Max Roach, Gillespie’s protégé trumpeter Jon Faddis, and Modern Jazz Quartet cofounders John Lewis (piano) and Milt Jackson (vibraphone). The leader’s crowd-pleasing pers
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