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Dizzy Gillespie ??/??/1970

SHOWID 580358

Set I

Tape 1 (21:30):
1 Diddy Wa Diddy - fragment 1 00:13
2 Diddy Wa Diddy - take 1 10:21
3 Diddy Wa Diddy - fragment 2 00:55
4 Diddy Wa Diddy - take 2 10:01

Tape 2 (20:48):
5 Diddy Wa Diddy - take 3 07:44

Tape 3 (24:04):
6 Me 'n Them - take 1 13:04
7 Me 'n Them - fragment 1 02:56
8 Me 'n Them - fragment 2 02:01
9 Me 'n Them - take 2 12:56
10 Me 'n Them - fragment 3 06:51

Set II


Set III


Comment

Rehearsal sessions and/or out-takes from sessions for the album PORTRAIT OF JENNY
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1970 (possibly late summer -- the album was released late 1970; none of these takes are the released versions).

Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet
Mike Longo - piano
George Davis - guitar
Andrew Gonzalez - bass
Jerry Gonzalez, Carlos "Patato" Valdes - congas
Nicholas Marrero - timbales

--All tracks written and arranged by Dizzy Gillespie

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satchmo67 (5/5) CD/FLAC / 1 A A View   Original studio tapes > digital
Notes: Note from Doinker: Let's be clear about what you are getting here. This is no dat/cassette/whatever. These are 10.5 inch two-track reel to reel tapes running at 15ips. There are ten tracks in all spread over three reels. And, bless it's heart - there's no commercial music in here after vetting the commercial long version of this song note by note. There are takes 1-5 of Olinga itself. There are an additional five tracks labeled as "insert". They are listed as takes 9-13. They may or may not constitute a longer running version of the middle of the existing tune, but they too are commercially unavailable. I'm unable to locate a name for these takes other than "insert", so if you do know, please tell me. Now, how did I acquire these gems? Heh heh... Many years ago in Connecticut there were major teardowns of estate homes to make way for highway construction. One of the firms was United House Wrecking in Stamford, Connecticut. A very long time ago they actually cleared out these estate homes and had items for sale. It was sort of a huge junkyard of sorts in those days, not at all like it is now. Way in the back were a whole bunch of reel tapes. Three of them had the letters "DIZ" on them, and one of them said "Olinga". And there you have it. Two dollars each. And, I won't even tell you about the "Archies" masters I saw there :) No "Sugar Sugar" for me. Forward to now. About four years ago I contacted the Gillespie estate attorney about getting these tapes released. He sounded interested. But after three calls over the space of a year, he was unable to get any sort of response from the family. The last conversation with him was over three years ago. Since the entire LP version of "Olinga" may be streamed on YouTube for well over a year already, it's safe to say there's no one at the wheel over there. Your gain.