Autograph manuscript for Quincy Jones’ arrangement of the Dizzy Gillespie composition The Champ for the 15-piece band that Gillespie toured to South America in 1956

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Lot 194 | Autograph manuscript for Quincy Jones’ arrangement of the Dizzy Gillespie composition The Champ for the 15-piece band that Gillespie toured to South America in 1956
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Autograph manuscript for Quincy Jones’ arrangement of the Dizzy Gillespie composition The Champ for the 15-piece band that Gillespie toured to South America in 1956

[John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie], Quincy Jones

[GILLESPIE, John Birks "Dizzy"] JONES, Quincy (b.1933). The Champ. 1956.



Autograph manuscript for Quincy Jones’ arrangement of the Dizzy Gillespie composition The Champ for the 15-piece band that Gillespie toured to South America in 1956.



Quincy Jones joined the Dizzy Gillespie band as a trumpeter and musical director in 1956 when he was just 23 years old. Of Jones’s time with him, Gillespie said ‘He took care of organising the band, the arrangements. All I had to do was play.’ Jones stayed with the band for just a year before a job offer from ABC-Paramount set him on a new trajectory as composer, performer and band leader in his own right. From the estate of the arranger Gil Fuller, who has pencilled his name and telephone number on the “wrap”. Fuller also worked with Gillespie scoring such hits as Manteca and One Bass Hit.



21 pages, 350 x 450 mm, large yellow 19 stave score sheets by King Brand with eight bars per page, titled in pencil on the first page ‘“The Champ”’, additionally titled, signed and dated on the verso of the last page ‘Dizzy Gillespie Orch. “The Champ”, Arr. By Quincy Jones, J.1088 802, 3/19/56, N.Y.C.’, scored in full for 15 musicians including altos, tenors, baritone, trumpets, trombones, piano and drums, noting specific parts intended for Dizzy, Phil Woods, Jimmy Powell, Billy Mitchell, and Ernie Wilkins, the score in pencil with red pencil accents, wire-stitched and paper taped at the spine; housed in a custom quarter-morocco cloth solander box with chemise.

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