- Format: CD
- Label: Fantasy
- Genre: Jazz
This Dizzy Gillespie exercise in arson was performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1975. Surrounding himself with colleagues whom he could trust to revel in the heat of tempos beyond the ignition point, the trumpeter and nonpareil leader set a furious pace on "Lover, Come Back to Me" and "Cherokee." Johnny Griffin, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Milt Jackson, and a rhythm section headed by Tommy Flanagan had no trouble meeting the challenge. "What's New," stately and heartfelt, provides a ballad contrast.
Lover, Come Back to Me; What's New?, Cherokee, plus CD bonus track I'll Remember April