Charlie Parker - Complete Jazz at Massey Hall
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Artist: Charlie ParkerEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Live
CD Release Date: 2004-04-05
Music Label: Jazz Factory
Soundtracks:
- Perdido
- Salt Peanuts
- All the Things You Are
- 52nd Street Theme
- Drum Conversation - Max Roach
- Cherokee
- Enbraceable You
- Hallelujah (Jubilee)
- Sure Thing
- Lullaby of Birdland
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- Wee (Allen's Alley)
- Hot House
- Night in Tunisia
Free Music Notes for Complete Jazz at Massey Hall
Free Music Review: Such Limitless Potential
Hit: 3 Stars
This concert has the makings of something quite magical. Five of the best bebop musicians ever, taking to the same stage. Unfortunately, it doesn't live up to it's potential. Apparently Bird, Diz, and Powell were all drunk...with Bird being the worst offender. And Diz kept leaving the stage to go watch a big heavyweight boxing match that was being broadcast. Bird also forgot to bring his sax so he was playing a cheap alto borrowed from a local music store. Bud was on leave from a mental institution and required supervision, so he wasn't exactly at his best to start with. Moreover, Bird and Diz left the stage for more than half the concert leaving just a trio performing. Max was impeccables that night, however, playing an amazing set with some powerful solos. Mingus was tight as well, at least as much as could be heard. The sound recording is ok on 3 or 4 tunes and dreadful on the rest.
This recording is sad because it had so much potential. If it was recorded properly and the musicians in shape and wanting to perform at their best this could have been one for the ages. As it is, you get some decent bebop from three drunk guys (one of them being a mental patient), and a fantastic rhythm section recorded by an amateur through a third rate PA system at Massey Hall. So this recording is nice but hardly magical.
I don't know why there are so many 5 star reviews as the music is just average, and the sound well below average for the time. I suspect that they're based on what the concert should have been based on the players, not what it is.
Complete Jazz at Massey Hall Poster
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. The Jazz Factory. 2003.Digitally Remastered Edition of Parker's Landmark Performance at Toronto's Massey Hall. Includes Amazing Performances of "Salt Peanuts", "Embraceable You", "Lullabye of Birdland", "Perdido" and Many More.
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