An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet

An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet is a 1961 live album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, recorded at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.^[1]

An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
Live album by Dizzy Gillespie
Released	1961
Recorded	February 9, 1961
Venue	Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Genre	Jazz
Length	54:41
Label	Verve
Producer	Charles Shwartz
Dizzy Gillespie chronology
Gillespiana (1960) An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (1961) Carnegie Hall Concert (1961)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
DownBeat	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Kush"	Dizzy Gillespie	11:01
2.	"Salt Peanuts"	Kenny Clarke, Gillespie	7:08

Side B

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"A Night in Tunisia"	Gillespie, Frank Paparelli	6:46
2.	"The Mooche"	Duke Ellington, Irving Mills	11:43
Total length:			36:38

CD reissue bonus track

No.	Title	Length
5.	"Interview with Dizzy Gillespie by Charles Shwartz"	18:03
Total length:		54:41

Personnel

• Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet
• Leo Wright – alto saxophone, flute
• Lalo Schifrin – piano
• Bob Cunningham – bass
• Chuck Lampkin – drums
• Candido Camero – conga