Charlie Parker Jazz at Massey Hall(The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever) = Reissue 180g vinyl LP=

Release date 30-03-2017 (originally released in 1953)

2017 reissue 180g vinyl LP - Quintet/Jazz At Massey Hall album by Charlie Parker was released Mar 17 2009 on the Original Jazz Classics label This modern jazz summit meeting in Toronto has been called the greatest jazz concert ever

Of course Charlie Chan is Charlie Parker

Tracks:
01 Perdido
02 Salt Peanuts
03 All The Things You Are
04 Wee
05 Hot House
06 A Night In Tunisia

One of the most famous live recordings in jazz history this May 1953 concert from Toronto brought together five of bebops greatest figures in alto saxophonist Charlie Parker credited here as Charlie Chan in a purposely transparent attempt to sidestep Parkers exclusive recording arrangement with another record company trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie pianist Bud Powell drummer Max Roach and bassist Charles Mingus Released following Parkers 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 Damerons Hot House the Ellington standard Perdido and All the Things You Are Initially released on Debut Records a label coowned by Mingus and Roach the sound quality is certainly of the time but has benefited over the years from digital technology Fred Goodman

ARTISTS:
Dizzy Gillespie trumpet

Max Roach drums

Bud Powell piano

Charlie Mingus bass

Charlie Parker alto saxophone