Jazz at Massey Hall

Released on Debut Records, "Jazz at Massey Hall" documents a 1953 concert at Massey Hall in Toronto that reunited Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie with Bud Powell and Max Roach, capturing the original bebop circle on one stage. Often called the music's summit meeting, the album is the capstone of the New York-rooted bebop lineage that began a decade earlier. It stands as a live testament to everything the style had become.