{"id":2271,"date":"2009-11-22T01:01:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T06:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2018-08-07T22:24:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T02:24:43","slug":"jazz-at-massey-hall-the-greatest-jazz-concert-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2271","title":{"rendered":"Jazz at Massey Hall \u2014 The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On a snowy evening in Toron\u00adto, in 1953, five of the great\u00adest jazz musi\u00adcians of all time played togeth\u00ader for the one and only time.&nbsp;Dizzy Gille\u00adspie, Char\u00adlie Park\u00ader, Hal Roach, Charles Min\u00adgus, and Bud Pow\u00adell, all at the cre\u00adative acme of their careers. A rag\u00ading bliz\u00adzard and a cru\u00adcial hock\u00adey game reduced the audi\u00adence to a hand\u00adful \u2014 a pho\u00adto shows most\u00adly emp\u00adty seats.&nbsp;The checks to pay the per\u00adform\u00aders bounced. But this is con\u00adsid\u00adered by many to be the great\u00adest jazz con\u00adcert of all time, and I\u2019m in no mood to doubt that con\u00adsen\u00adsus.&nbsp;Gille\u00adspie\u2019s trum\u00adpet blazes like the archangel Gabriel took pos\u00adses\u00adsion of him.&nbsp;If you are going to own only one jazz album, this should be&nbsp;it.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7907\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=7907\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7907\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7907\" class=\"wp-image-7907 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/09-11-22-LISTN-Jazz-at-Massey-Hall-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"Roach, Gillespie &amp; Parker playing at Massey Hall, 1953\" width=\"300\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/09-11-22-LISTN-Jazz-at-Massey-Hall-300x249.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/09-11-22-LISTN-Jazz-at-Massey-Hall.jpg 543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Roach, Gille\u00adspie <span class=\"amp\">&amp;<\/span> Park\u00ader play\u00ading at Massey Hall,&nbsp;1953<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Massey hall was built in 1894.&nbsp;This was, for\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, where I first heard for\u00admal con\u00adcert music played.&nbsp;It\u2019s ugly on the out\u00adside, but when I first set foot in it, the inte\u00adri\u00ador was still a late Vic\u00adto\u00adri\u00adan, pseu\u00addo-ori\u00aden\u00adtal fan\u00adta\u00adsy of mel\u00adlow wood\u00adwork.&nbsp;It\u2019s acoustics ranked it among the best halls in the world. A lat\u00ader ren\u00ado\u00adva\u00adtion, unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, removed most of its charms. The Toron\u00adto Sym\u00adpho\u00adny long ago moved to mod\u00adern quar\u00adters, but Massey still hosts impor\u00adtant rock, folk and cham\u00adber concerts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a snowy evening in Toron\u00adto, in 1953, five of the great\u00adest jazz musi\u00adcians of all time played togeth\u00ader for the one and only time.&nbsp;Dizzy Gille\u00adspie, Char\u00adlie Park\u00ader, Hal Roach, Charles Min\u00adgus, and Bud Pow\u00adell, all at the cre\u00adative&nbsp;acme&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2271\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cr-listening-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7912,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions\/7912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}