The Quintet
Play Radio
Listen to The Quintet Radio,
featuring artists like Bud Powell, Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane and more…
69,539 plays (11,191 listeners)
Jazz at Massey Hall is a jazz album featuring a live performance by The Quintet on 15 May 1953 at Massey Hall in Toronto. The musicians were five of the biggest names in jazz: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach. It was the only time that the five recorded together as a unit, and it was the last recorded meeting of Parker and Gillespie.
Parker famously played a plastic alto saxophone on this date; he could not be listed on the original programme notes or album cover for contractual reasons, so was billed as “Charlie Chan” (an allusion to the fictional detective and to Parker’s wife Chan). The record was originally issued on Mingus’s label Debut, using his own tape recording of the concert; the bassist, unhappy that his lines were insufficiently audible on the recording, overdubbed his part, and it is possible during the bass solos to hear him duetting with himself at times.
The music was born in part out of tension between the musicians, especially between Parker and Gillespie. One story asserts that they at first refused to go on stage, instead watching television in their dressing room.
Professional review: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8btxlfwegcqq~T0
Parker famously played a plastic alto saxophone on this date; he could not be listed on the original programme notes or album cover for contractual reasons, so was billed as “Charlie Chan” (an allusion to the fictional detective and to Parker’s wife Chan). The record was originally issued on Mingus’s label Debut, using his own tape recording of the concert; the bassist, unhappy that his lines were insufficiently audible on the recording, overdubbed his part, and it is possible during the bass solos to hear him duetting with himself at times.
The music was born in part out of tension between the musicians, especially between Parker and Gillespie. One story asserts that they at first refused to go on stage, instead watching television in their dressing room.
Professional review: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8btxlfwegcqq~T0
Top Albums
-
Jazz at Massey Hall
The Quintet
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon Search
- eBay Search
-
Jazz at Massey Hall Vol. 1
The QuintetBuy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon Search
- eBay Search
-
Autumn in New York
The QuintetBuy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon Search
- eBay Search
-
Amazing
The QuintetBuy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon Search
- eBay Search
Shoutbox
-
gazad-jewerdin Jazz att Massey Hall great stuff
-
LanFill wow... I regret waiting so long to listen to this! absolutely great
-
pone2none : Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach. wpweezowee
-
Dardan-H The best group in Jazz-history - "Jazz At Massey Hall" is a fantastic album!
-
heuvel Great!
-
Ciacchi LOL at Salt Penuts
