The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (Verve, 1959): Vinyl LP 200topsellingUK2024 The April Fools

The April Fools

With such iconic tracks as “Christmas Time is Here” and the instantly recognizable “Linus and Lucy”

If Someone Had Told Me

Burrell is accompanied on this stellar set of original and standard compositions by Tommy Flanagan on piano

” and “Blue In Green

The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (Verve, 1959): Vinyl LP 200topsellingUK2024 The April FoolsThe band Dizzy Gillespie assembled for this date Junior Mance, Les Spann, Sam Jones, and Lex Humphries was for the most part a working band on the club & concert circuit, offering a mixture of Gillespies entertaining songs, established repertoire, & some Latin & African influenced pieces. With them, Dizzy found a middle ground in his music that gave his legacy room to breathe, but with much more rhythmic variety. The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie Side A 1.