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
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