It took until the mid-'70s for a trumpeter to emerge who could not only emulate
Dizzy Gillespie, but display a larger range:
Jon Faddis. Unfortunately,
Gillespie and his protégé barely recorded together, and this 1977 encounter at the Montreux Jazz Festival is quite disappointing. The trumpeters (plus vibraphonist
Milt Jackson, pianist
Monty Alexander, bassist
Ray Brown and drummer
Jimmie Smith) play well enough on "Girl of My Dreams," "Get Happy," "The Champ," and a ballad medley, but there are, amazingly enough, no tradeoffs between
Faddis and
Gillespie (the younger trumpeter is much too respectful throughout this session), and few fireworks occur in what should have been an explosive encounter. ~ Scott Yanow