It adds four tracks, "Con Alma," "Maids Of Cadiz," "My Heart Stood Still" and "Woody 'n You," and omits track two, "Judy."
The Gillespie composition "Con Alma" was a serious matter, as indicated by the pianist Renee Rosnes in an elaborate, fluttering introduction.
The concert, "Con Alma: The Latin Tinge in Big Band Jazz," was a historical overview of the common ground found by Afro-Cuban music and jazz.
The music was amiable, rarely introspective; even the elegiac "Con Alma," which he played as a duet with Mike Longo on piano, had a hint of a smile in upturned, bluesy phrase endings.
The program moved from the ballad "I Waited for You" to the vaudeville and proto rhythm and blues of "Oop-Pop-a-Da" and on to the Latin rhythms of "Con Alma" and "Night in Tunisia."
All tracks written and composed by Paquito D'Rivera, except "Con Alma" by Dizzy Gillespie, "Preludio No. 3" by Roberto Pansera and "Serenade" by Carlos Franzetti.
A great version of Con Alma , with lyrics.
Bob Christianson - additional OBX synthesizer trk: 3, vocoder & additional synthesizers trk: 5 ("Con Alma")
Steve Huffsteter - trumpet, (flugelhorn on "Con Alma" and "I thought About You")
In 1983 Dizzy Gillespie personally commissioned Frank Foster to orchestrate one of the jazz icon's compositions, "Con Alma", for a scheduled performance and recording with The London Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Robert Farnon.