{"product_id":"quintet-of-the-year-9781854109644","title":"Quintet of the Year","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeoffrey Haydon explores the legendary \"Massey Hall concert\" - the night in Toronto in May 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: Charlie Parker  Dizzy Gillespie  Bud Powell  Charles Mingus and Max Roach. Though the evening began inauspiciously  with no real rehearsal  the hall less than half full  and Charlie Parker turning up with a white plastic saxophone  nearly 50 years later the CD of the concert is still selling - entitled  with little exaggeration  \"The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever\". \"Quintet of the Year\" is in the same tradition as Ashley Kahns books on the making of \"Kind of Blue\" and \"A Love Supreme\". Geoffrey Haydon traces the lives of the five jazzmen from their beginnings in music to when they boarded the plane for Canada  and then afterwards  whether to civil rights activism or tragically early death  to show how their stories dramatised for the world the condition of black artists in America. He recreates the never-to-be-repeated occasion of that remarkable concert itself  from the backstage rows to the embarrassment of box-office receipts insufficient to pay the illustrious musicians - but above all the wonder of pieces like \"Perdido\"  \"Salt Peanuts\" and \"A Night in Tunisia\" perfomed by five of the finest American musicians of the century  for one night only.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648171466805,"sku":"ByrdShop_1854109642","price":126.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781854109644.jpg?v=1781711479","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/quintet-of-the-year-9781854109644","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}