New Bird and Diz

"Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945," the new CD on the Uptown label from previously unknown acetate disk recordings of a concert at the dawn of bebop, is the best and most exciting live recording of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker I've ever heard. The sound is good and the presence of Don Byas on one of the tracks and Al Haig and Max Roach on most of them only makes it more priceless. I think this is better than the vaunted Massey Hall recording.