Bahiana
Studio album by
Released1976
RecordedNovember 19 & 20, 1975
StudioLos Angeles, California
GenreJazz
Length75:23
LabelPablo
2625-708
ProducerNorman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75
(1975)
Bahiana
(1976)
Carter, Gillespie Inc.
(1976)
Reissue cover

Bahiana is a 1976 double album by American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1975 and released on Pablo.[1]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllmusicStarStarStarStar[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record GuideStarStarStarStarStar[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz RecordingsStarStarStar[4]

Stewart Mason, in his review for AllMusic, called the album "one of Dizzy Gillespie's finest albums of the decade", commending the "richly expansive tunes [...] built on pure carnival rhythms".[2]

Alun Morgan of Jazz Journal highlighted a "subtle interplay" between the jazzmen and Paulinho Da Costa. The journalist praised both the group as a whole, for their "control and sensitivity", and Dizzy Gillespie specifically, for his "exemplary" trumpet control.[5]

Track listing

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All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated

  1. "Carnival" – 8:02
  2. "Samba" (Mike Longo) – 9:41
  3. "Barcelona" (Al Gafa) – 12:24
  4. "In the Land of the Living Dead" (Gafa) – 10:34
  5. "Behind the Moonbeam" (Gafa) – 7:35
  6. "The Truth" (Longo) – 8:27
  7. "Pele" (Gafa) – 7:15
  8. "Olinga" – 20:00

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Dizzy Gillespie discography accessed April 17, 2012
  2. ^ a b Mason, Stewart. Bahiana at AllMusic
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 83. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 555. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ Morgan, Alun (July 1976). "Record Reviews: Dizzy Gillespie – Bahiana". Jazz Journal. Vol. 29, no. 7. London: Novello & Co. p. 30. ISSN 0307-4439.