Jazz At Massey Hall
by The Quintet

Jazz At Massey Hall by The Quintet
(Live album)
Year: 1956
Overall rank: 2,662nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 114 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1956 (14th)
Award Top 100 albums of of the 1950s (75th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,662nd)

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Overall rank: 2,662nd | 1950s rank: 75th | 1956 rank: 14th  Overall chart history
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77/100 (from 114 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 77.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.7.


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From RockyRaccoon 08/22/2022 19:27 in Rank 'Em: The Beach Boys
Going all the way back to 1956? One of my favorite jazz albums ever was released that year: You don't get a quintet much better than Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Some of the best jazz around
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From 06/13/2022 13:08 | #286337
All jazzmen in TOP form at this concert, fabulous...
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Five star jazz record. Essential live jazz with some of the best musicians of all time
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65/100
I'm not a huge jazz fan, so this is my personal rating, not what I think the quality of it is.

Having said that I really enjoyed the live crowd interaction and slightly less conventional salt peanuts.
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From 06/30/2015 22:38 | #144887
Holy crap.

9.5/10
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Five of the greatest jazz musicians who ever lived playing together... of course it will be a quality recording. The first track was the only weak entry, IMO, but the rest is predictably gorgeous, even for someone who isn't big on traditional bebop arrangements.
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