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Charlie Parker: Complete Jazz at Massey Hall - 1953

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Label: Jazz Factory
Released: 2004.04.05
Time:
 73:11
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Charles Mingus
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.cmgww.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Perdido (Juan Tizol, Hans Lengfelder, Ervin M. Drake) - 8:16
[2] Salt Peanuts (Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke) - 7:37
[3] All the Things You Are (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 7:14
[4] 52nd Street Theme (Thelonious Monk) - 0:42
[5] Drum Conversation (Max Roach) - 4:38
[6] Cherokee (Ray Noble) - 4:55
[7] Enbraceable You (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 4:25
[8] Hallelujah [Jubilee] (Grey, Robin, Youmans) - 4:00
[9] Sure Thing (Bud Powell) - 2:13
[10] Lullaby of Birdland (Shearing, Weiss) - 2:33
[11] I've Got You Under My Skin (Porter) -3:02
[12] Wee [Allen's Alley] (Denzil Best) - 6:47
[13] Hot House (Tadd Dameron) - 9:10
[14] A Nigth in Tunesia (Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) - 4:34

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Charlie Parker - Alto Saxophone
Dizzy Gillespie - Trumpet
Bud Powell - Piano
Charles Mingus - Double Bass, Producer
Max Roach - Drums

Tamaki Beck - Mastering Engineer
Joe Tarantino - Mastering
Bill Coss - Liner Notes
Bob Parent - Cover Photo

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Recorded at Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (05/15/1953).

One of the most memorable live recordings in jazz history, featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Max Roach. This phenomenal edition includes all of the original tracks recorded by The Quintet at Toronto's Massey Hall, without the Mingus, overdubbed bass added later. 24-bit remastered.



This concert was held at Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada on May 15, 1953, and was recorded by bassist Charles Mingus, who overdubbed some additional bass parts and issued it on his own Debut label as the Quintet's Jazz at Massey Hall. Charlie Parker (listed on the original album sleeve as "Charlie Chan") performed on a plastic alto, pianist Bud Powell was stone drunk from the opening bell, and Dizzy Gillespie kept popping offstage to check on the status of the first Rocky Marciano-Jersey Joe Walcott heavyweight championship bout. Subsequent editions of this evening were released as a double-live album (featuring Bud Powell's magnificent piano trio set with Mingus and Roach), dubbed The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever. The hyperbole is well-deserved, because at the time of this concert, each musician on Jazz at Massey Hall was considered to be the principle instrumental innovator within the bebop movement. All of these musicians were influenced by Charlie Parker, and their collective rapport is magical. As a result, their fervent solos on the uptempo tunes ("Salt Peanuts" and "Wee") seem to flow like one uninterrupted idea. "All the Things You Are" redefines Jerome Kern's classic ballad, with frequent echoes of "Grand Canyon Suite" from Bird and Diz, and a ruminative solo by Powell. And on Gillespie's classic "Night in Tunisia," the incomparable swagger of Bird's opening break is matched by the keening emotional intensity of Gillespie's daredevil flight. A legendary set, no matter how or when or where it's issued.

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One of the most famous live recordings in jazz history, this May 1953 concert from Toronto brought together five of bebop's greatest figures in alto saxophonist Charlie Parker (credited here as "Charlie Chan" in a purposely transparent attempt to sidestep Parker's exclusive recording arrangement with another record company), trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, pianist Bud Powell, drummer Max Roach, and bassist Charles Mingus. Released following Parker's death two years after the date, the recording finds him in remarkable form, his playing robust, pointed, and witty. And although each participant is a band leader, composer, and groundbreaking stylist on his instrument, the performance demonstrates that Parker remained first among equals. Compositionally, Jazz at Massey Hall leans heavily on the bebop book developed by Gillespie, and includes "Salt Peanuts," "Wee," and "A Night in Tunisia." Also featured are Tadd Dameron's "Hot House," the Ellington standard "Perdido," and "All the Things You Are." Initially released on Debut Records, a label co-owned by Mingus and Roach

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