Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris

{{Infobox album

| name = Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris

| type = album

| artist = Dizzy Gillespie, Les Double Six, and Bud Powell

| cover = Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris.jpeg

| border = yes

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1964|2|15}}{{cite magazine|date=February 15, 1964|title="More Sales History Making LPs"|magazine=Billboard|page=17}}

| recorded = July 8, 1963
Europasonor Studios, Paris, France

September 20, 1963
Chicago

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 38:45

| label = Philips

| producer =

| chronology = Dizzy Gillespie

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Bud Powell

| type = studio

| prev_title = Bud Powell in Paris

| prev_year = 1964

| title = Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris

| year = 1964

| next_title = The Invisible Cage

| next_year = 1964

}}

| prev_title = Something Old, Something New

| prev_year = 1963

| next_title = Dizzy Goes Hollywood

| next_year = 1963

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r139330|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

| rev2 = DownBeat

| rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}

| rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz

| rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}

| rev4 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| author-link =

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| pages = 83

}}

}}

Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris is a 1963 studio album collaboration between Dizzy Gillespie and Les Double Six, also known as the Double Six of Paris, a French vocal group who sings in vocalese to songs associated with Dizzy Gillespie. Gillespie, pianist Bud Powell, and a rhythm section accompany; two of the songs feature his quintet, with James Moody.{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r139330|label=Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris}} It was reissued on CD in 1989.

The vocal parts by the Double Six were overdubbed on top of recordings by Gillespie, Powell, Pierre Michelot, and Kenny Clarke that had been made in July 1963. Two tracks were recorded with James Moody, Kenny Barron, Chris White, and Rudy Collins in Chicago in September 1963.{{Cite web |last=Cerra |first=Steven |date=2019-05-31 |title=JazzProfiles: Dizzy Gillespie And The Double Six Of Paris |url=https://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2019/05/dizzy-gillespie-and-double-six-of-paris.html |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=JazzProfiles}}