As a schoolboy, I spent my "pocket money" buying this recording (vinyl, of course) in about 1957. When I played it at the school jazz club, some said (they were trad jazz fans): "But they're just playing any note." I realised then that you either "get it," or you don't and they didn't. I didn't go to the jazz club anymore! I still have the record 51 years later. Fantastic to listen to, yet again.
@dee_dee_place
3 жыл бұрын
I could listen to these wonderful musicians all day & all night. I miss not having 'true' jazz clubs anymore. I'm sure they rehearsed their pieces but they always sounded impromptu & right on the money. Thank You for posting this.
@metius66
4 жыл бұрын
The most beautiful and astonishing 4 bars break in the history of jazz!
@1953jazzman
14 жыл бұрын
Never before had a stage been so full of the greatest geniuses of jazz music (especially bebop) and we will never see the likes of a summit like this ever again! Thankfully, someone thought to record the concert for jazz posterity. This happened in 1953, just a scant few days after I was born! There is a cosmic reason why I am so in love with Jazz.
Great!! Bird,Gillespie,Mingus,Roach... What an Ensamble !! and what a song ...!! This goes into my favs. Mike, Italy.
@HectorGallegosmusic
13 жыл бұрын
Probably my favorite tune. I'm still obsessed with A Night in Tunisia even after listening to many versions and playing it for my Senior Recital in College....jazz is always new. You always catch something new. It's like when I listen to a preaching 3 times....each time is different and I catch something else every time.
@TheRealG2024
9 жыл бұрын
the sheer breadth and scope of parkers influence on EVERYBODY is truly stunning.
@UkuleleAversion
8 жыл бұрын
+Geoff Bournes I had never heard Charlie Parker's music until now. Man, this guy was not only influential, but also a lyrical and rhythmic iconoclast. The influence he had on Eric Dolphy is apparent to me now. But this makes me wonder.... Where did Bird get his ideas from?
@manualvarado2212
7 жыл бұрын
It's a very good question. Of course he also took inspiration from older jazz musicians. I don't know, Bix, Armstrong? But with very innovative ideas. Who knows, there has to be something genuinely new also.
@exit7a355
17 жыл бұрын
thank you for posting this. i met max in 1980 & he signed the cover of my vinyl lp of this concert...a very gracious man, rest his soul.
@cha5
16 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite CDs in my Jazz collection.
@nedmanxxx
16 жыл бұрын
bird is playing the plastic alto( Grafton) i read he'd rented there in Canada for this Massey Hall gig...the city of Kansas City ,Mo. won the horn at auction 9-10 years ago for a bit under 200 K...DIG THAT CRAZY JAZZ!!!
@brayanhabidcol
9 жыл бұрын
I think this is the best performance in a plastic sax ever.
@paulostroff99
13 жыл бұрын
Most famous jazz concerts ever there were;This was in 1953 and will never be possible to surpass.The best players ever-came together and played the most famous concerts ever played anywhere.They were concerts for the ages at the best acoustical hall anywhere and one with unobstructed views-period.This was just an example of this remarkable achievement.
@dafaveri
15 жыл бұрын
"I'm too young to have been at this one, but am grateful it was recorded." Either am I.
@jazzalex22
11 жыл бұрын
Jazz at Massey Hall: The best concert album ever made. So many amazing songs. Here's a message to kids today: Jazz at Massey Hall beats the crap out of One Direction's This is Us, and Glee live in concert.
@livegems
16 жыл бұрын
Side is the best side of music ever! Perdido, Salt Peanuts and All the Things You Are.
@zammzammbamm
16 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite recording this concert!!!! can't beat budd and charlie! oh and dizzy
@54spiritedwill54
16 жыл бұрын
LOVE this song!
@franksinbeans
15 жыл бұрын
yeah for sure, i just looked up parker, found all these of my favourite jazz artists all in one! magic
@jaikwillis
15 жыл бұрын
there's a video on here somewhere of a british guy playing that plastic sax Bird used on this show, it is for some auction house that was selling it. Interesting to see and hear a modern recording of this same horn
@tontonsalut
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, Peter King (alto sax extraordinaire) plays this sax on the video you're talking about !
@DoraAshes
13 жыл бұрын
amazing
@gcrav
15 жыл бұрын
The Grafton plastic sax was invented by the brits for use in military bands during WWII. It was a good sounding horn, but nearly impossible to repair.
@ckymadam
15 жыл бұрын
Best quintet ever!
@spamsanne
15 жыл бұрын
Definitely my favourite version!!! Amazing quintet! Thanks for the uploading!
@Harry-zc8rg
Жыл бұрын
Blasphemy perhaps but this is my favorite break. Parker plays something slower but just as spine tingling to me.
@MarkErickson-Painter
17 жыл бұрын
Check out Massey Hall's Perdido' @ Paintings by Mark Erickson - Days Of Mercury-Paint it Black
@jimyjames1465
8 жыл бұрын
There is a great book called Cool blues about the Toronto and Montreal visits CP made..plus many other things surrounding these shows..Great book.. RIP Cats..
@lambertobiagi9306
7 жыл бұрын
non capisci molto di jazz. Il cool blues è tutta un'altra cosa. Questo è puro Be Pop Lamberto
@aaronamccoy
14 жыл бұрын
bird was rockin that grafton
@lorena.stephanie
12 жыл бұрын
Bonita música *_*
@shufflephunk
15 жыл бұрын
nah you shouldnt see it that way.. ofcourse its a funny fact that he sold his old one and they had to run and search for a new one in time and had to hook up with a plasitc one but as long as they dont break theyre still pretty good!\ ornette colemanis famous for his plastic saxophone use :)
@jazzowyalchemik
14 жыл бұрын
@Gruntol5 sounds so ironic, when i show free jazz to mainstream fans they would say the same. True artists are always ahead of the era. As was Armstrong, as were Parker and Dizzy and this pack, as are Coleman or Taylor (Cecil). btw i wonder how much is your lp now worth :) 53 years that's something :)
@RonaldStewart
16 жыл бұрын
someone gave him the grafton saxophone aka the plastic saxophone. im not sure about what happened to the one he had before hand.. it might of gotten lost, or either he sold it, who knows... obviously it didn't matter, he sounded good on anything
@jaikwillis
15 жыл бұрын
i don't think there are any existing versions of this recording without Mingus's overdubbed bass lines. you can actually hear him duet with himself on one of his solos, pretty silly.
@aaronamccoy
14 жыл бұрын
no doubt..he was my main teacher, him and trane
@jimtzu
17 жыл бұрын
greetings from the birthplace of Bird
@CCEX
16 жыл бұрын
No big deal, unless you have been influenced by Diz, Bird, Bud, Mingus, or Max (I'm guilty on all 5 counts). Something like this happens every 50 years or so. Remember the Declaration of Independence, the Magna Carta, the 1984 Macintosh TV commercial, or the 1896 Paris debut of Alfred Jarry's "Pere Ubu"
@shufflephunk
15 жыл бұрын
pretty good and expensive ;)
@drummerdoc
15 жыл бұрын
No It was the Toronto Jazz Society that invited them
@BuckshotLaFunke1
11 жыл бұрын
He played the plastic alto sax because the King company threatened him with a lawsuit if he continued playing such dazzling breaks on Night In Tunisia and he had pawned his shoes and Miles ran into him and Mingus consumed an ox on his own and and and...
@gjazz22
15 жыл бұрын
I understand they did the show in canada because of the record ban of the mid 50s.
@jazzowyalchemik
14 жыл бұрын
@Gruntol5
@lastknowngood0
8 жыл бұрын
Some of the Founders sans Monk!
@TheTravisAustin
13 жыл бұрын
sounds nothing loke our version :p
@moshepotts
13 жыл бұрын
Unroooooooool.....
@ketahoer23
16 жыл бұрын
lol i red he sold his sax for smack :P
@jaikwillis
15 жыл бұрын
Ornette is also famous for badly playing violin and trumpet on records when he had no idea how to use them, or having his 12 year old son play on his records. he's not always a good point of reference.
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