Remembering Dizzy And Duke

Giacomo Smith director 

A special EFG London Jazz Festival concert celebrating the lives and music of Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington. The only recorded meeting of Dizzy and Duke was in New York City in 1958, at Columbia’s 30th Street Studio. This concert features music from the catalogues of both Dizzy and Duke in addition to selections from their great 1959 collaboration.