Quintet of the year / Geoffrey Haydon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haydon, Geoffrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955.

Parker, Charlie.

Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993.

Gillespie, Dizzy.

Powell, Bud.

Mingus, Charles, 1922-1979.

Mingus, Charles.

Roach, Max, 1924-2007.

Roach, Max.

Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.

Jazz musicians.

United States.

Jazz--Ontario--Toronto--1951-1960--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Aurum, 2004.

Summary:

It has entered musical legend as "the Massey Hall concert"--the night in Toronto in 1953 when five of the most creative and influential jazz musicians of all time took the stage together for the only time in their lives: Parker, Gillespie, Powell, Mingus, and Roach. There was no rehearsal--not even a sound check. But a tape machine was running, and the recording of that concert became a classic album that has been reissued for 50 years. Quintet of the Year is the story of that historic concert--but to fix its coordinates in history, Geoffrey Haydon navigates decades of musical innovation and social change. He traces the lives of these five jazzmen, therefore, from their beginnings in music to the end of their careers. At its center, Quintet of the Year recreates the never-to-be repeated occasion of that remarkable concert itself and the prodigious artistry of five of the finest American musicians of the 20th century.

Contents:

1 Cosmic Rays 1

2 Dizzy Atmosphere 41

3 Un Poco Loco 69

4 Weird Nightmare 92

5 Maximum 107

6 Jazz at Massey Hall 130

7 Now's the Time 151

8 To Be or Not To Bop 169

9 Glass Enclosure 190

10 Meditations for a Pair of Wire Cutters 211

11 It's Time 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-292), discography (pages 293-296), and index.

ISBN:

1854104543

1854109642

OCLC:

123219528