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6 unusual facts about Massey Hall


Gordon O'Brien

Gordon began studying the guitar with Eli Kassner at the age of eight and when eleven years old, he played with the Toronto Symphany Orchestra at Massey Hall under conductor Andrew Davis.

Live at Massey Hall

Jazz at Massey Hall, 1953 album featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach

Live at Massey Hall 1971

Released in 2007, the album features a solo, acoustic performance from Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada on 19 January 1971 during the Journey Through the Past Solo Tour. It is the second release in Young's Archives Performance Series.

Massey Foundation

In 1933, the foundation undertook the renovation of Massey Hall.

Percy Faith

He played violin and piano as a child, and played in theatres and at Massey Hall.

Sonny Greenwich

The following year, Greenwich's own group opened for the Miles Davis band at Massey Hall.



see also

Canadian Railroad Trilogy

A live version also appears on two of his live albums, first on his 1969 album Sunday Concert and again on the 2012 release "All Live", which consists of songs recorded during his live concerts at Toronto's Massey Hall during the period from 1998 to 2001.

Live at Massey Hall 1971

Footage appears of Young performing a number of tracks which is instead sourced from a performance at the Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut three days later (filmed for a 1971 TV documentary by Dutch documentary maker Wim van der Linden, which was never broadcast in The Netherlands but it was in Germany, with the German title Swing in mit Neil Young) but has the Massey Hall audio dubbed on top.