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Charlie Parker

Title: Jazz at Massey Hall + bonus track

Label: Jazz Track

Cat No:JT957
Format:CD

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• The complete, widely celebrated Massey Hall concert, performed in Toronto on May 15, 1953, by an ultimate all-star quintet of bebop founders which would never be reunited again : Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Max Roach.

• The recording is presented here in the actual order of performance and without the added bass and echo which darkened the sound quality of some issues.

• As a bonus, the master take of “Bass-ically Speaking”, recorded at a New York studio, in August ’53, with Mingus and pianist Billy Taylor which was originally included by Mingus as part of the Massey Hall concert.

• Special Digipak Edition - Total Time: 77:32 - 15 tracks - Includes 16-page booklet with original liner notes and amazing photos from the concert.

• Only 700 out of 2500 seats were filled - part poor publicity, and partly because of a heavyweight championship boxing match that night (even Parker and Gillespie left the stage in mid-concert to watch the fight on television, leading to an extremely long intermission). Bud Powell had to be released from New York’s Bellevue Hospital by his manager. Parker and Gillespie had to get a later flight to Toronto because there weren’t enough tickets. And Parker had travelled without his sax, so had to borrow a Grafton plastic alto from a local music store!

Track Listing for Jazz at Massey Hall + bonus track
01 WEE [aka ALLEN’S ALLEY] 6:47
02 HOT HOUSE 9:10
03 A NIGHT IN TUNISIA 8:10
04 DRUM CONVERSATION 4:41
05 I’VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN 3:01
06 EMBRACEABLE YOU 4:23
07 SURE THING 2:11
08 CHEROKEE 4:54
09 HALLELUJAH 3:58
10 LULLABY OF BIRDLAND 2:32
11 PERDIDO 8:16
12 SALT PEANUTS 7:37
13 ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE 7:13
14 52nd STREET THEME 0:38
15 BASS-ICALLY SPEAKING 3:54*

Total Time: 77:32

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