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 Afro-Cuban jazz was successful because it never decreased in popularity and it always attracted people to dance. Gillespie's most famous contributions to Afro-Cuban music are "Manteca" and "Tin Tin Deo" (both co-written with Chano Pozo); he was responsible for commissioning George Russell's "Cubano Be, Cubano Bop", which featured Pozo. In 1977, Gillespie met Arturo Sandoval during a jazz cruise to Havana. Sandoval toured with Gillespie and defected in Rome in 1990 while touring with Gillespie and the United Nations Orchestra. During the 1964 United States presidential campaign the artist, with tongue in cheek, put himself forward as an independent write-in