I love her expressions as she listens to the musicians. Billie's hornlike voice, Lester's voicelike horn. And Roy Eldridge, wow. She was a master and they were all masters.
Billie Holiday - vocal; Ben Webster – tenor saxophone; Lester Young – tenor saxophone; Vic Dickenson – trombone; Gerry Mulligan – baritone saxophone; Coleman Hawkins – tenor saxophone; Roy Eldridge – trumpet; Doc Cheatham – trumpet; Danny Barker – guitar; Milt Hinton – double bass; Mal Waldron – piano; Osie Johnson – drums.
Jazz at Massey Hall is a live jazz album featuring a performance by "The Quintet" given on 15 May 1953 at Massey Hall in Toronto. The quintet was composed of five leading 'modern' players of the day: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach. It was the only time that the five men recorded together as a unit, and it was the last recorded meeting of Parker and Gillespie.
