The title given this LP may very well be true, but this particular session is surprisingly restrained.
Dizzy Gillespie is heard in an octet with tenor saxophonist
Benny Golson, altoist
Gigi Gryce, trombonist Henry Coker and baritonist Pee Wee Moore, but the
Golson arrangements seem to inhibit the trumpeter and the repertoire (mostly by
Golson and
Gryce) fails to inspire
Gillespie. For many other jazz musicians this would be a "good" or even "fine" effort, but
Dizzy Gillespie has recorded too much classic music for this disappointment to rate very high. ~ Scott Yanow