Something Old, Something New (album)

Something Old, Something New is a studio album by Dizzy Gillespie, recorded and released in 1963.

Something Old, Something New
Studio album by
Released1963
RecordedApril 23–25, 1963, A&R Studios, New York City (New York)
GenreJazz
Length40:50
44:12 (CD reissue)
LabelPhilips
ProducerHal Mooney
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
The New Continent
(1962)
Something Old, Something New
(1963)
Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris
(1963)

Reception edit

The AllMusic review states "this was one of Dizzy Gillespie's finest sessions of the 1960s".[1]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [1]
Down Beat
Original Lp Issue
     [2]
New Record Mirror     [3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide     [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings    [5]

Track listing edit

  1. "Bebop" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 6:17
  2. "Good Bait" (Count Basie, Tadd Dameron) – 3:03
  3. Medley: "I Can't Get Started"/"'Round Midnight" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin)/(Thelonious Monk, Bernie Hanighen, Cootie Williams) – 6:23
  4. "Dizzy Atmosphere" (Gillespie) – 6:12
  5. "November Afternoon" (Tom McIntosh) – 4:19
  6. "This Lovely Feeling" (Margo Guryan, Arif Mardin) – 4:19
  7. "The Day After" (McIntosh) – 4:33
  8. "Cup Bearers" (McIntosh) – 6:11
  9. "Early Mornin' Blues" (Gillespie) – 2:55 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Yanow, Scott "Review". Allmusic. Accessed October 28, 2013.
  2. ^ Down Beat: August 15, 1963 vol. 30, no. 23
  3. ^ Griffiths, David (5 October 1963). "Dizzy Gillspie: Something Old Something New" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 134. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  4. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 83. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 554. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.