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
Billy Root (musician) 1968 settled in Las Vegas, where he played live in casinos for the next two decades. With Bennie Green With Red Rodney Billy Root (musician) William "Billy" Root (born March 6, 1934, Philadelphia) is an American jazz saxophonist. Root was raised in a musical family; his father played drums in Philadelphia ensembles. Root began playing professionally in the early 1950s, with Roy Eldridge, Hal McIntyre, Red Rodney, Bennie Green, and Buddy Rich. Later in the decade he worked extensively with Stan Kenton and with Rodney, as well as with Clifford Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, and Curtis Fuller.