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Gil Fuller & The Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra Featuring Dizzy Gillespie

Gil Fuller

Recorded	1965
Label	Pacific Jazz
Released	1965
Personnel	21 credited players
Discogs	master 319041

The record

Dizzy Gillespie fronts a Fuller-scored orchestra thick with french horns, with Jimmy Bond and Earl Palmer anchoring the rhythm section. Recorded in 1965, it's arranging craft on full display, Gillespie's horn riding atop the charts rather than steering them.

Session personnel

Jimmy Bond — bass
Earl Palmer — drums
Alan Robinson — french horn
David Duke — french horn
Herman Lebow — french horn
Sam Cassano — french horn
Dennis Budimir — guitar
Phil Moore III — piano
Buddy Collette — reeds
Carrington Visor, Jr. — reeds
Gabe Baltazar — reeds
Jack Nimitz — reeds
William Green — reeds
Francis Fitzpatrick — trombone
Jim Amlotte — trombone
Lester Robertson — trombone
Dizzy Gillespie — trumpet
Freddie Hill — trumpet
Harry Edison — trumpet
John Audino — trumpet
Melvin Moore — trumpet

Contemporary reception

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Pressings

1965	Pacific Jazz · T-90458 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Club Edition, Mono earliest on file
1965	Pacific Jazz · PJ-93 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Research Craft Pressing
1965	Pacific Jazz · ST-90458 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Club Edition, Stereo
1965	Pacific Jazz · ST-93 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1965	Pacific Jazz · PJ-93 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1965	Ricordi International · SMIR 23 005 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1965	Pacific Jazz · ST-93 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1981	Pacific Jazz
—	Pacific Jazz · PJ-93 — Vinyl, LP, Album
—	Pacific Jazz · LN-10060 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
—	Pacific Jazz · PJ-93 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
—	Pacific Jazz · 93 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
—	Pacific Jazz · PJ-93 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono