#GreatAlbums1950s – #CharlieParker/ #TheQuintet – Jazz at Massey Hall (1953). This live one-off, captured by Charles Mingus on a portable tape deck, featured Parker in the company of Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach, and Mingus (on bass) at Toronto’s Massey Hall. A spirited “Perdido” leads the set, followed by Dizzy’s infectious “Salt Peanuts” and a set of standards ending with a definitive “A Night in Tunisia.” Low audio fidelity aside, this is as good as bebop gets.

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