| The Modern Jazz Sextet | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Skeeter Best, Charlie Persip |
| Cover: | modern-jazz-sextet.jpg |
| Released: | 1956 |
| Recorded: | January 12, 1956 at Fine Sound Studios, NYC |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 42:26 |
| Label: | Norgran Records MGN 1076[1] |
| Producer: | Norman Granz |
| Chronology: | Dizzy Gillespie |
| Prev Title: | One Night in Washington |
| Prev Year: | 1955 |
| Next Title: | World Statesman |
| Next Year: | 1956 |
The Modern Jazz Sextet is a jazz album featuring the combined talents of Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Skeeter Best and Charlie Persip.[2] The album was conceived by producer Norman Granz for his own label, Norgran Records.[3] Although no single album artist is credited as a bandleader for this album, Verve Records - which owns the Norgran catalogue - files it as a Dizzy Gillespie album.
Two of the album's rhythm section, Lewis and Heath, also feature in the 1952-founded Modern Jazz Quartet.
AllMusic gives the album four stars, stating that "it did not take too much insight to realize that putting trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and altoist Sonny Stitt together with a strong rhythm section would result in some explosive music. ...Bebop at its best."