Jazz Beat: Massey Hall 60th Anniversary, at the Gem Theater

In May 1953, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie recorded a legendary jazz concert in Toronto’s Massey Hall. The saxophone that Parker played that night is on display in the American Jazz Museum. The Gem Theater marks that show’s anniversary Saturday. Pianist Bill Charlap (who has backed Tony Bennett and Barbra Streisand) brings his trio, adding alto saxophonist Jesse Davis and trumpeter Jon Faddis. Faddis thrilled last year when he joined Bobby Watson’s big band at the Prairie Village Jazz Festival. Bebop lines, peppered with high registers that few trumpeters try, could have come from his mentor, Gillespie, whose shoes he fills Saturday.