Jazz standard and Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A' Train" (1941). With the big bands struggling to keep going during World War II, a shift was happening in jazz in favor of smaller groups. Some swing era musicians, such as Louis Jordan, later found popularity in a new kind of music, called "rhythm and blues", that would evolve into rock and roll in the 1950s. Bebop emerged in the early 1940s, with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk leading the way. It appealed to a more specialized audiences than earlier forms of jazz, with sophisticated harmonies, fast tempos and often virtuoso musicianship.
Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie from in a purely accompanying role behind the great trumpeter and little interplay occurs". "All compositions by Gil Fuller except as indicated" 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