New Wave (Dizzy Gillespie album) flute Lalo Schifrin - piano Bola Sete - guitar Chris White - bass Rudy Collins - drums Jose Paula - guitar, tamb, perc, vcl Carmen Costa - vcl, maracas Recorded: New York City, July 1962 Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet Leo Wright - alto sax, flute Lalo Schifrin - piano Elek Bacsik - guitar Chris White - bass Rudy Collins - drums Pepito Riestra - percussion Recorded: Juan-les-Pins, France, July, 1962 Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet Leo Wright - alto sax, flute Charlie Ventura - tenor sax, bass sax Lalo Schifrin - piano Chris White - bass Rudy Collins - drums Jose
Dizzy Gillespie who worked a Baltimore–Philadelphia–New York City circuit which included the Apollo Theater. Willis was not immediately friendly but Gillespie was attracted anyway. The two finally married on May 9, 1940. They remained married until his death in 1993. Gillespie stayed with Teddy Hill's band for a year, then left and free-lanced with other bands. In 1939, he joined Cab Calloway's orchestra, with which he recorded one of his earliest compositions, "Pickin' the Cabbage", in 1940. After a notorious altercation between the two men, Calloway fired Gillespie in late 1941. The incident is recounted by Gillespie and Calloway's band members Milt