| The New Continent | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1962 | |||
| Recorded | September 1962 | |||
| Studio | United Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 76:39 | |||
| Label | Limelight LS/LM 86022 | |||
| Dizzy Gillespie chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Record Mirror | [2] |
The New Continent is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band featuring performances arranged and composed by Lalo Schifrin and conducted by Benny Carter recorded in 1962 and released on the Limelight label.[3] The CD reissue added four bonus tracks originally released on An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (Verve, 1961).
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (12 February 1966). "Dizzy Gillespie: The New Continent" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 257. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
- ^ Dizzy Gillespie discography accessed April 2, 2012