Afro (album)

Afro
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1954 (1954-11)
RecordedMay 24 and June 3, 1954
New York City
GenreAfro-Cuban jazz, bebop
Length33:05
LabelNorgran
MGN 1003
ProducerNorman Granz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Diz and Getz
(1953)
Afro
(1954)
Dizzy and Strings
(1954)

Afro is a studio album by the jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. It was released in November 1954 through Norgran Records.[1] Gillespie worked with many Cuban musicians on the album.[2]

  1. ^ Littleford, R.S. Jr, ed. (November 27, 1954). "Clef to Issue 4 Successful Albums in EP". The Billboard. Cincinnati: The Billboard Publishing Co. p. 11.
  2. ^ Njoroge, Njoroge M. (June 16, 2016). Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781496806925 – via Google Books.