The Modern Jazz Sextet The Modern Jazz Sextet The Modern Jazz Sextet is a jazz album featuring the combined talents of Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Skeeter Best and Charlie Persip. The album was conceived by producer Norman Granz for his own label, Norgran Records. Although no single album artist is credited as a bandleader for this album, Verve Records - which owns the Norgran catalogue - files it as a Dizzy Gillespie album. Two of the album's rhythm section - Lewis and Heath - also feature in the 1952-founded Modern Jazz Quartet. Allmusic gives the album 4 stars stating "it
Live at the Village Vanguard (Dizzy Gillespie album) rambling moments but also plenty of creative playing by this unusual group of all-stars". "All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated" Disc One: Disc Two: Live at the Village Vanguard (Dizzy Gillespie album) Live at the Village Vanguard is a live album by American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie featuring performances recorded in 1967 at the Village Vanguard and originally released on three separate LPs on the Solid State label, one under the "Vanguard" title and as two volumes entitled Jazz for a Sunday Afternoon. The recordings were subsequently re-released in unedited form as a 2-CD set on the Blue