Quintet of the Year"One night in Toronto in May 1953, 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 ... In this definitive book about the legendary 'Massey Hall concert', Geoffrey Haydon traces these five lives from their beginnings in music through to later civil rights activism or tragically early death, via the never-to-be-repeated night itself"-- |
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