Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions

}} The Allmusic review stated "Instrumentally concise, always with a harmonic depth and technical brilliance that punctuates bebop, and a recording technology enhanced from the '40s, Dee Gee Days will stand forever as one of the most important albums in jazz history, and belongs in every serious – or whimsical – jazz lover's collection – period!" ==Track listing==

All compositions by Dizzy Gillespie except as indicated • "Tin Tin Deo" (Gillespie, Gil Fuller, Chano Pozo) – 2:43 • "Birks' Works" – 3:07 • "We Love to Boogie" – 2:53 • "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:42 • "Love Me Pretty Baby" (Kenny Clarke) – 3:03 • "The Champ" – 5:39 • "I'm In a Mess" (A. White, P. White) – 2:13 • "School Days" (Will D. Cobb, Gus Edwards) – 3:09 • "Swing Low Sweet Cadillac" – 3:10 • "Bopsie's Blues" [alternate take] – 3:16 • "Bopsie's Blues" – 2:34 • "I Couldn't Beat the Rap" – 2:56 • "Caravan" [alternate take] (Juan Tizol) – 2:56 • "Caravan" (Tizol) – 2:54 • "Nobody Knows" (Clarke) – 2:40 • "The Bluest Blues" (Gary McFarland, Sir Charles Thompson) – 2:55 • "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:08 • "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael) – 3:03 • "Time on My Hands" (Vincent Youmans, Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon) – 2:24 • "Blue Skies" (Irving Berlin) – 2:19 • "Umbrella Man" (James Cavanaugh, Vincent Rose, Larry Stock) – 2:26 • "Confessin' (Pop's)" (Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds) – 3:33 • "Ooh-Shoo-Be-Doo-Bee" (Gillespie, Joe Carroll, Bill Graham) – 3:21 • "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 3:45 Recorded in New York City on March 1 (tracks 1–3), April 16 (tracks 4–6), August 16 (tracks 7–12), October 25 (tracks 13–19), 1951 and in Chicago on July 18 (tracks 20–24), 1952 ==Personnel==

• Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet, vocals • John Coltrane – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone (tracks 1–3) • Budd Johnson – tenor saxophone (tracks 4–6) • Bill Graham – baritone saxophone (tracks 7–24) • J. J. Johnson – trombone (tracks 4–6) • Stuff Smith – violin (tracks 13, 14 & 17–19) • Kenny Burrell – guitar (tracks 1–3) • Wynton Kelly – piano (tracks 20–24) • Milt Jackson – piano, vibes (tracks 1–19) • Bernie Griggs (tracks 20–24), Percy Heath (tracks 1–19) – bass • Art Blakey (tracks 4–6), Kansas Fields (tracks 1–3), Al Jones (tracks: 7–24) – drums • Joe Carroll (tracks 4, 7, 8, 15–17 & 20–23), Melvin Moore (tracks 5 & 10–12), Freddy Strong (track 3) – vocals == References ==