Dizzy Gillespie / Charley Christian 1941 (Minton's Playhouse & Monroe's Uptown, New York City)

Album by Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Christian

Dizzy Gillespie / Charley Christian 1941 (Minton's Playhouse & Monroe's Uptown, New York City) is a live album by Dizzy Gillespie recorded in 1941 at Minton's Playhouse and Monroe's Uptown in New York City. The music is in an early bebop and swing-influenced jazz style, with rapid tempos, harmonic complexity and extended improvisation, and the recordings document an early stage in Gillespie's move toward the bebop language.