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- Making His Mark as A Sideman
- First Solo Flight
- Classic Original Compositions
- Unique Interpretations of Bebop Classics
- The Great American Songbook
How Bud Powell evolved as a pianist can be gauged by listening to some of his early recordings as a sideman. In 1943, aged 19, he was enjoying his first noteworthy professional engagement with ex-Duke Ellington trumpeter Cootie Williams’ orchestra. He appeared on Williams’ “Floogie Boo,” contributing a short solo that showed that even as a teenager...
Just as Bud Powell was making a name in the bebop world with his flamboyant style and looked certain to become a star in his own right, in November 1947 he suffered a mental breakdown and was admitted to New York’s Creedmoor State Hospital. It wasn’t the first time he had been hospitalized; in 1943, while with Cootie Williams’ band, he was so traum...
Later in 1949, Bud Powell joined Blue Note where he made some of his most memorable recordings. The label initially captured him fronting a quintet called Bud Powell’s Modernists that included teenage tenor saxophone sensation Sonny Rollins. They cut the infectious “Bouncing With Bud” and addictively swinging “Dance Of The Infidels,” that with thei...
Throughout his career, Bud Powell put an indelible spin on some of bebop’s most iconic songs. With their quicksilver piano melodies, Powell’s stunning 1949 versions of Charlie Parker’s “Ornithology” and Thelonious Monk’s “52nd Street Theme” offer vivid examples of the pianist’s absolute mastery of the keyboard. Powell reimagined one of bebop’s most...
In addition to writing his own compositions and reinterpreting bebop classics, Bud Powell had a gift for taking tunes from the Great American Songbook and remaking them in his own image. One of his favorites was “All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm,” a 1930s song originally sung by jazz chanteuse, Ivy Anderson, which he recorded in 1949. It was one of the...
- Charles Waring
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Bud Powell originally did Big Foot, Sweet Georgia Brown, Now's the Time, Buzzy and other songs. Bud Powell wrote Celia, Down with It, Parisian Thoroughfare, Blue Pearl and other songs.
- September 27, 1924
- July 31, 1966
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) was an American jazz pianist and composer.
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Bud Powell. Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American jazz pianist and composer. A pioneer in the development of bebop and its associated contributions to jazz theory, Powell's...
