The Alternate Blues

Studio album by Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry and Freddie Hubbard

Released

1980

Recorded

March 10, 1980

Genre

Jazz

Length

40:01

Dizzy Gillespie chronology

The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4
(1980)

The Alternate Blues
(1980)

Digital at Montreux, 1980
(1980)

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic	^[1]

The Alternate Blues is a 1980 album featuring the trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, and Freddie Hubbard, supported by a quartet led by Oscar Peterson. The tracks were outtakes from The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (1980). ^[2]

Track listing

"Alternate Blues": Alternate One – 5:33
"Alternate Blues": Alternate Two – 8:04
"Alternate Blues": Alternate Three – 9:05
"Alternate Blues": Alternate Four – 9:36
"Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) – 8:55
Ballad Medley: "Here's That Rainy Day"/"The Gypsy"/"If I Should Lose You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)/(Billy Reid)/(Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 7:37

Personnel

Performance

References

Dizzy Gillespie

Studio albums	Bird and Diz (1952) Afro (1954) Diz and Getz (1955) Dizzy and Strings (1954) Roy and Diz (1954) Jazz Recital (1956) The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956) World Statesman (1956) Dizzy in Greece (1956) For Musicians Only (1956) Birks' Works (1957) Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith (1957) Sittin' In (1957) Duets (1957) The Greatest Trumpet of Them All (1957) Sonny Side Up (1957) The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (1959) Have Trumpet, Will Excite! (1959) A Portrait of Duke Ellington (1960) Gillespiana (1960) Perceptions (1961) The New Continent (1962) New Wave (1963) Something Old, Something New (1963) Dizzy Goes Hollywood (1964) Jambo Caribe (1964) Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie (1965) The Melody Lingers On (1966) It's My Way (1969) Cornucopia (1969) The Real Thing (1970) Portrait of Jenny (1970) Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 (1974) The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (1974) Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie (1974) Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings – Jousts (1974) The Bop Session (1975) Jazz Maturity...Where It's Coming From (1975) Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods (1975) Bahiana (1975) Carter, Gillespie Inc. (1976) Dizzy's Party (1976) Free Ride (1977) The Gifted Ones (1977) The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (1980) The Alternate Blues (1980) To a Finland Station (1981) Closer to the Source (1984) New Faces (1985) Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet (1986) Oop-Pop-A-Da (1988)

Live albums	Jazz at Massey Hall (1953) Dizzy Gillespie at Newport (1957) An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (1961) Carnegie Hall Concert (1961) Dizzy on the French Riviera (1962) Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (1963) Live at the Village Vanguard (1967) Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (1967) The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band (1968) Dizzy Gillespie and the Mitchell Ruff Duo in Concert (1971) Giants (1971) The Giants of Jazz (1971) The Giant (1973) The Source (1973) The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (1975) The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75 (1975) Dizzy Gillespie Jam (1977) Digital at Montreux, 1980 (1980) Musician, Composer, Raconteur (1981) One Night in Washington (1983) Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1989) Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (1989) Bird Songs: The Final Recordings (1992) To Bird with Love (1992) To Diz with Love (1992)

Compilation albums	Groovin' High (1955) Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions (1976) The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1995) The Great Blue Star Sessions 1952-1953 (2004) Dizzy Digs Paris (2006)

Soundtrack albums	The Cool World (1964) The Winter in Lisbon (1990)

Books	To Be or Not to Bop (1979)

Related	List of works

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