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 time in Calloway's band, Gillespie started writing big band music for Woody Herman and Jimmy Dorsey. He then freelanced with a few bands, most notably Ella Fitzgerald's orchestra, composed of members of the Chick Webb's band. Gillespie did not serve in World War II. At his Selective Service interview, he told the local board, "in this stage of my life here in the United States whose foot has been in my ass?" He was classified 4-F. In 1943, he joined the Earl Hines band. Composer Gunther Schuller said, Gillespie said of the Hines band, "[p]eople talk about the Hines band