Celebrating the brilliance of Bud Powell on his birthday. Along with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke and Dizzy Gillespie, Powell was a leading figure in the development of modern jazz. His virtuosity led many to call him the Charlie Parker of the piano, and Charlie Parker called him "a genius." "No one could play like Bud; too difficult, too quick, incredible!" - Thelonious Monk Bud was trained in classical music as a child and his classical background played a role in the harmonic

Bud Powell Live from the Blue Note Paris feat. Kenny Clarke, Lucky Thompson, Jimmy Gourley, Alice Coltrane & more. Captured by director Jean-Christophe Averty, this live take at the Blue Note jazz club in 1960 is brief but intense. Renowned jazzmen, like Bud Powell, Pierre Michelot and Kenny Clarke, offered a playful version of the Broadway standard "Get Happy." Saxophonist Lucky Thompson's quintet drums up irresistible swing via "Strike Up The Band." Guitarist Jimmy Gourley marks a pivotal elem

Remembering the great Bud Powell who was born on this day in 1924. Known as a leading figure in the development of modern jazz, Powell was credited for greatly extending the range of jazz harmony. He was among those who did away with most accepted functions of the left hand. His left hand simply played brief, often syncopated, jabs of two- or three-note chords supporting long, single lines by the right hand. This technique became the accepted approach for modern jazz of the next 20 years. In his

Remembering Bud Powell on his birthday. (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966). Along with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Dizzy Gillespie, Powell was a leading figure in the development of modern jazz. His virtuosity led many to call him the "Charlie Parker" of the piano. He was one of the most underrated because he spent over a third of his life in mental and medical hospitals. He was beaten by the police when he was twenty and he never fully recovered from that beating and as a result, he