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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Max Roach played together here exactly once, in 1953 - jazz historians still call it the greatest concert ever. Massey Hall, at 178 Victoria Street in Toronto's Garden District, is Canada's most venerated concert hall, a National Historic Site nicknamed Canada's Carnegie Hall. The gift came first: industrialist Hart Massey built the hall for the people of Toronto, opening it on 14 June 1894 with Handel's Messiah sung by a 500-voice...