Boxset / Compilation · 2006
Tracklist
Disc One:
"Intro (Rehearsal Blues)" - 1:31
"The Champ" - 9:22
"Good Bait" (Tadd Dameron, Count Basie) - 9.50
"Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac" - 4:10
"Ghost of a Chance" (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young) -
"Lady Be Good" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:50
"Mon Homme" (Jacques Charles, Channing Pollock, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) - 2:53
"(I've Got) The Bluest Blues" (Gary McFarland, Sir Charles Thompson) - 3:51
"Birk's Works" - 9:36
"Ooh-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be" (Gillespie, Joe Carroll, Bill Graham) - 3:28
"They Can't Take That Away From Me" (Gershwin, Gershwin) -
"Embraceable You" (Gershwin, Gershwin) - 3:06
"Play Fiddle Play" (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence, Emery Deutsch) - 3:16
"I Can't Get Started" (Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke) - 4:29
"Tin Tin Deo" (Gillespie, Chano Pozo) - 4:11
"On The Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh)
Disc Two:
"School Days" (Will D. Cobb, Gus Edwards) - 7:04
"Undecided" (Sid Robin, Charlie Shavers) - 2:34
"The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 4:16
"Always" (Irving Berlin) - 2:58
"Mon Homme" (Charles, Pollock, Willemetz, Yvain) - 2:41
"Clappin' Rhythm" - 2:15
"Fais Gaffe (Watch Out) - 3:58
"Moon Nocture" - 2:27
"This Is the Way" - 2:35
"'S Wonderful" (Gershwin, Gershwin) - 3:16
"Oo-Bla-Dee" (Milt Orent, Mary Lou Williams) - 3:03
"Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 3:51
"Jalousie" (Vera Bloom, Jacob Gade) - 2:36
"The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) - 2:37
"Fine and Dandy" (Paul James, Kay Swift) - 3:44
"I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) - 2:24
"Pennies from Heaven" (Johnny Burke, Arthur Johnston) - 2:25
"Perdido" (Juan Tizol) - 3:08
"Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Fabian Andre, Wilbur Schwandt, Gus Kahn) - 3:16
"Wade Legge's Blues" (Wade Legge) - 3:44
"A Swedish Folk Song" (Traditional) - 3:11
"Dance Of The Infidels" (Bud Powell) - 3:14
"Aren't You Glad You're You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 3:15
"These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) - 2:52
"Why Don't You Believe Me?" (Lew Douglas, King Laney, Roy Rodde) - 2:52
Line-up/Musicians
Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet, piano, vocals, congas (Disc One and Disc Two, tracks 1-17)
Nat Peck - trombone (Disc Two, tracks 4-11)
Bill Graham - alto saxophone, baritone saxophone (Disc One and Disc Two, track 1)
Wade Legge - piano
Lou Hackney - bass
Al Jones - drums
Joe Carroll, Sarah Vaughan - vocals (Disc One, track 12, Disc Two, track 1)
The Paris Operatic String Orchestra arranged by Michel Legrand (Disc Two, tracks 2, 3 & 12-16)
About this release
Giant Steps
Recorded on February 9, 1953 at the Salle Pleyel (Disc One and Disc Two, track 1) and on February 22, 1953 at the Studio Pathe Magellan (Disc Two, tracks 2-17) and February 27, 1953 (Disc Two, tracks 18-25), in Paris, France
Thanks to snobb for the addition