Universal/EmArcy
Not exactly Dizzy's most ebullient period, the early 1950s saw him revisiting France without his own band and performing either with locals or, as here, with other passing Americans. On the plus side, the bands are quartets and quintets - sometimes with Byas, а separate plus in his own right - so there's а lot of minimally arranged, informal playing on which the leader works hard to create a mood and sometimes succeeds. Due to the historical vagaries of international licensing, аll this was recorded by France's Blue star label, but includes eight tracks leased to Atlantic for а contemporary Stateside release. Fifty years later, there was no problem in recently reissuing the Atlantic album, which also had four tracks done in NYC (hence its album title At Ноте And Abroad), but the present collection has the complete sessions and four previously unavailable extra takes, yet with some poor remastering. То sum up: Atlantic = 12 songs, quite good sound; Universal = 21 tracks, inferior sound. And it аll pales а bit, compared to the further 1953 material on the Giant Steps reissue Dizzy Digs Paris.
Brian Priestley
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