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...CHARLIE PARKER COMPLETE JAZZ AT MASSEY HALL...
Pianist Bud Powell was drunk. Parker was playing a plastic saxophone borrowed from a local music store. At one point, bassist Charles Mingus got so angry at trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's antics that he stomped offstage. Yet on this night of May 15, 1953, at Toronto's Massey Hall, the musicians, along with drummer Max Roach, somehow pulled together to give an incandescent, unforgettable performance. Captured in a low-fi taping by Mingus and Roach, the concert showed what bebop--and live jazz--was all about...
...professor also tried his hand as a novelist, telling The Crimson in 1989 that he preferred composing his works of fiction over writing economic studies. He was "the only author I’m aware of who had bestsellers on the fiction and nonfiction lists at the same moment," Parker said...
Galbraith remained a frequent lunchtime presence at the Faculty Club and swam three times a week at Blodgett Pool long after his retirement, according to Parker...
EXTERNAL LINK: "The World According to Galbraith"; the economist and his biographer, Richard Parker, at the Institute of Politics (VIDEO...