Birks Works - The Verve Big-Band Sessions

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Release Date: 1995

Label: Verve Records

1-1 to 1-17 recorded June 6, 1956 at Coastal Recording, New York City
1-18 to 2-6 recorded April 7, 1957 at WOR Recording Studios, New York City
2-7 to 2-19 recorded April 8, 1957 at WOR Recording Studios, New York City
2-20 to 2-23 recorded July 8, 1957 at WOR Recording Studios, New York City

1-1, 1-3 to 1-9, 1-13 and 1-14 original LP issue: Dizzy Gillespie - World Statesman Norgran MGN 1084
1-2, 1-10 to 1-12, 1-15 to 1-17, 2-15 to 2-17 original LP issue: Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy In Greece Verve MGV 8017
1-18 to 2-6, 2-11 and 2-14 original LP issue: Dizzy Gillespie Big Band - Birks' Works Verve MGV 8222
2-19 original 45 rpm issue: Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra - Mayflower Rock Verve 89173
2-20 original LP issue: Various - The Playboy Jazz All-Stars Playboy PB 1957
2-21 original LP issue: Dizzy Gillespie And His Orchestra - The Big Band Sound Of Dizzy Gillespie Verve (UK) 2317080

Tracks 2-7 to 2-10, 2-12, 2-13, 2-18, 2-22 and 2-23 are previously unissued.

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