This performance of Hot House is from a February 24, 1952 broadcast on the pioneering DuMont Television Network. Broadcasting on the Earl Wilson Show ‘Stage Entrance’, Charlie Parker plays with Dizzy Gillespie in the only footage capturing “Bird” in a true live performance … a historic TV broadcast of the founding fathers of bebop playing together. It is one of only two known sound films of Parker playing and the only one of him playing live, rather than synching to a prerecorded track.
The quintet playing on this rare video includes Parker on alto saxophone, Gillespie on trumpet, Sandy Block playing bass, Charlie Smith on drums and Dick Hyman at the piano.
