On March 23, 1989, Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach united for a performance at the Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis in Paris. The concert found these two icons engaging in a relaxed and at times humorous dialogue with the same ease and intuition that defined their nearly 50 years of collaboration. Wending their way through standards and originals, the duo offered up a concert released on record as Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 that would stand as one of Gillespie's greatest late-career recordings.
