Date: May 15, 1953
Release: Debut/OJC OJCCD-044-2
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I’m not a superstitious guy, but still. From a stack of 15 or so CDs I pulled from my collection as candidates for review, Jazz at Massey Hall presented itself first. I fed it to my CD player and read the original liner notes, written by one Bill Coss back when liner notes were printed on the LP liner. The personnel for this live show taped in Toronto in 1953 was–get this–Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet, Charlie Parker on alto, Bud Powell on piano, Charles Mingus on the bass, and Max Roach on drums. The five giants tinnily played along in low-fidelity. I had just about decided not to write about it (Bird hadn’t gotten to his solo yet), but then I saw on the liner notes that the show had been on May 15–48 years ago to the day.
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