Dizzy Gillespie
Trumpet Solo on
I Know That You Know

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Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet solo is the second of 3 solos on this recording, following Sonny Rollins's tenor sax and before Sonny Stitt's closing tenor sax statement. Spanning three choruses of the 32-bar AA' form at a brisk 310 BPM with a swing feel in E♭, the solo runs approximately 1:13. Gillespie follows with three trumpet choruses, his articulation clean and his ideas flowing even at this extreme tempo. Dizzy Gillespie was 39 to 40 years old at the time of this 1957 recording.

Dizzy Gillespie was 39 to 40 years old at the time.