Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie is an album by composer, arranger and conductor Gil Fuller featuring trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1965 and originally released on the Pacific Jazz label. The album was rereleased on CD combined with Fuller's "Night Flight" (Pacific Jazz, 1965) on the Blue Note label as "Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie & James Moody" in 2008. The Allmusic review called the album "A bit of a disappointment... the big band is mostly heard
Horn in jazz horn with many famous jazz musicians such as Paul Whiteman, Stan Kenton and Glenn Miller. In the early 1950s he began composing third stream music, even before there was a term to define it. Throughout his career he would arrange and play many popular jazz sound tracks. His greatest accomplishments though are his compositions for orchestra with jazz horn. From a young age Schuller listened to both jazz and classical music. Having grown up in a home with his father a violinist, he originally considered classical music of higher quality musically and culturally than jazz. One night Schuller had an