The Quintet - Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)

Jazz at Massey Hall by The Quintet


Max Roach was the drummer for a makeshift, one-night-only quintet that performed at Massey Hall in Toronto on May 15, 1953.  It featured five of bebop's pioneering musicians on their respective instruments: the aforementioned Max Roach, Charles Mingus on bass, Bud Powell on piano, Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet, and Charlie Parker (billed as "Charlie Chan" for contractual reasons) on alto saxophone.  Billing themselves as "The Quintet" and the concert as "the greatest jazz concert ever", Jazz at Massey Hall came out on in 1953 on Debut Records, the record label founded by Max Roach and Charles Mingus.

Here is the complete discography for The Quintet:

Jazz at Massey Hall
Complete Jazz at Massey Hall (2004 album reissue)

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