Wee (Allen's Alley)

The Quintet (Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Max Roach) · 1953 · Jazz at Massey Hall, Toronto

Context

Composed by Denzil Best, "Wee" opens the album taken from the May 15, 1953 concert at Massey Hall in Toronto, which brought together Parker, Gillespie, Powell, Mingus and Roach, released in December 1953 by Debut, Mingus's label. Parker, under contract elsewhere, is credited there as "Charlie Chan"; Mingus and Roach later overdubbed in New York the poorly recorded bass lines. "Hot House," the episode's title, is already in the database in another version.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's). Among the origins and influences of Bebop: Kansas City, Swing, big bands.

By the same artist

• On the Sunny Side of the Street (1957)
• Manteca (1947)
• Cubana Be, Cubana Bop (1947)
• A Night in Tunisia (1946)
• Salt Peanuts (1945)
• Hot House (1945)

Sources

• EN: Jazz at Massey Hall

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