Charlie Parker Featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Max Roach - Jazz At Massey Hall (LP)

Artist:
Charlie Parker Featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Max Roach
Title:
Jazz At Massey Hall
Label:
WaxTime
Catalog#:
771806
Format:
1 x Vinyl LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
Country:
Europe
Released:
2012
Media Condition:
Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition:
Mint (M)
Comments:
Brand New And Factory Sealed. Save On Shipping By Combining Two Or More Items.
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Jazz at Massey Hall is a live jazz album recorded on 15 May 1953 at Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada. Credited to "the Quintet", the group was composed of five leading "modern" players of the day: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach. It was the only time that the five musicians recorded together as a unit, and it was the last recorded meeting of Parker and Gillespie.

The first pianist considered by the organizers was Lennie Tristano, but he suggested Powell as a more appropriate match for the other musicians. Oscar Pettiford was considered as an alternative to Mingus.
Parker played a Grafton saxophone on this date; he could not be listed on the original album cover for contractual reasons, so was billed as "Charlie Chan", an allusion to the fictional detective and to Parker's wife Chan. The concert included performances by both the entire quintet and a trio consisting of Powell, Mingus and Roach, as well as a Roach drum solo.

The original plan was for the Toronto New Jazz Society and the musicians to share the profits from the concert. However, owing to a boxing prize fight between Rocky Marciano and Jersey Joe Walcott taking place simultaneously, the audience was so small that the Society was unable to pay the musicians' fees. The musicians were all given NSF checks and only Parker was able to cash his; Gillespie noted that he did not receive his fee "for years and years".

Jazz authority Burt Korall says that for Roach, this performance was a "culmination on record of music and relationships developed in the 1940s." Despite the difficulties, according to Korall, "the music was the great leveler." The opening act on the night was a 16-piece big band billed as the CBS All Stars.

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DISC4203910N1
A1Perdido8:16
A2Salt Peanuts7:37
A3All The Things You Are7:14
A452nd Street Theme0:42
B1Wee [aka Allen's Alley]6:47
B2Hot House9:10
B3A Night In Tunisia7:33
Genre Jazz
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