New Wave (Dizzy Gillespie album) New Wave (Dizzy Gillespie album) New Wave! is an album by Dizzy Gillespie consisting of live and studio performances recorded in 1962 and released on the Philips label in 1963. In his "Down Beat" magazine review of March 14, 1963 jazz critic Don DeMichael wrote that "Dizzy plays marvelously on this record... There's a spirit evident that is all too often missing from today's record sessions – a spirit of vivacious humor and playing-for-the-hell-of-it." The Allmusic review states "this was one of Dizzy Gillespie's finest sessions of the 1960s... Highly recommended". Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet Leo Wright - alto sax,
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