The Modern Jazz Sextet | ||||
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Released | 1956 | |||
Recorded | January 12, 1956 at Fine Sound Studios, NYC | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 42:26 | |||
Label | Norgran Records MGN 1076[1] | |||
Producer | Norman Granz | |||
Dizzy Gillespie chronology | ||||
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The Modern Jazz Sextet is a jazz album featuring the combined talents of Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Skeeter Best and Charlie Persip.[2] The album was conceived by producer Norman Granz for his own label, Norgran Records.[3] Although no single album artist is credited as a bandleader for this album, Verve Records - which owns the Norgran catalogue - files it as a Dizzy Gillespie album.
Two of the album's rhythm section, Lewis and Heath, also feature in the 1952-founded Modern Jazz Quartet.