Just as Thelonious Monk happened to illuminate the modern jazz scene through compositions are not subject to any particular model, Bud Powell (1924-1966) gave the fundamental keys of the new language piano grasp without tangible references. Even today, the summit is unsurpassed technical bebop piano and is remembered as the most influential musicians of this movement, after Charlie Parker, but ahead of everyone else, including Dizzy Gillespie.
His childhood was saturated with music, his older brother played the trumpet professionally and violin and his grandfather, Zachary, was the best flamenco guitarist in the United States. Her father, pianist stride attached style, supported his early vocation and gave the first lectures. Their progress was spectacular and at that time, was frequently seeing him play with his friend, Elmo Hope, compositions of Bach and other classics. It was not until 1939, when Powell got his first major contract with the Royals Sunset Valaida Snnow singer and in 1939 he recorded his first album titled The Reverse Changers for the Duke label and under the leadership of saxophonist Frank Sokolov.
It was not until 1944 when, inspired by Thelonious Monk, he joined the Cootie Williams Orchestra and recorded very brief one Blue Garden Blues, first real sign of his colossal talent. That same year he suffered his first arrest for public scandal and the following year received a brutal beating by Philadelphia police that left him touched presumably forever. His psychological disorders were reproduced and sent to a psychiatric hospital in Long Island. In 1946, he recovered, he joined the small combo of bassist John Kirby and chance did that little training was hired in Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, the "temple" of bebop, where Powell contacted the staff of that movement, which allowed participation between 1946 and 1947 in a good number of jam sessions with Dexter Gordon, Jay Jay Johnson, Sonny Stitt, Kenny Clarke and Sarah Vaughan, among others.
His debut as a leader took place on January 10, 1947 for the Three Deuces small label, and in May of that year, he recorded the only studio to record with Charlie Parker's Savoy. A long hiatus of two years, mostly consumed in the Creedmore Sanatorium boarding school, where he even electro-shock treatment, gave way, paradoxically, his most fertile artistic period. As of August 8, 1949, under the supervision of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, Bud Powell left in the coffers of the stamp Blue Note another vision of modern piano perfectly compatible with that just two years earlier had made Thelonious Monk. After being admitted again for seventeen months in another psychiatric hospital in February 1953 was discharged and formed a steady trio with the bassist George Duvidier and drummer Art Taylor.
On May 15, 1953, an historic event in the professional life of Bud Powell. Along with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus and Max Roach, participated in a massive concert at Massey Hall in Toronto in Canada, considered the swan song of bebop and perhaps the best jazz concert of all time. Thereafter, Powell began to enter a phase of profound mental deterioration almost irreversible, but in 1956 did a European tour with Miles Davis, Lester Young and the Modern Jazz Quartet by Milt Jackson. Repeated visits to the old continent in 1959, but this time he was five years. He was accompanied Altevia Edwards, better known as Buttercup and chose Paris as a place of residence.
received with the honors of a jazz great, formed a regular trio known as the Three Bosses with bassist Pierre Michelot and drummer Kenny Clarke, with whom were the main attraction of Paris Blue Note club. It was a period in his life thanks to the care that is provided Francis Paudras, un extraordinario aficionado al jazz y posterior autor de la biografía de Powell, The Dance Of The Infidels . Pero aquejado de tuberculosis aguda, incapaz de dejar la bebida, y nostálgico de New York, Bud Powell regresó a los Estados Unidos. Su reaparición en el mítico Birdland provocó uno de los momentos dulces de su carrera. Siete minutos de ininterrumpido aplauso demostraron que sus incondicionales no lo habían olvidado, pero aquella reaparición fue sólo un cruel espejismo. Sus dos últimos años los pasó en un apartamento de Brooklyn acompañado por su hija Celia.
Ya casi al final de su vida, participó en 1965 en sendos conciertos celebrados en el Town Hall y en el Carnegie Hall, the latter in honor of the tenth anniversary of the death of Charlie Parker, but the July 31, 1966 died at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn. More than 5000 people took to the streets spontaneously to honor him, and his burial Barry Harris and Lee Morgan played in his honor. As Francis said Paudras: ".... Bud Powell had two personalities. One urged him to fight and overcome their problems, to play and create music. The other was dragging him to self-destruction, the utter lack of self-respect , and the latter would win the game. "
In 1986, French film director Bertrand Tavernier film was an extraordinary recoió with absolute cleanliness and fidelity Bud Powell Parisian stage. His film , Round Midnight, starring in his starring role by saxophonist Dexter Gordon is one of the great jazz-related films.
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Tracks 1. Big Foot (Long Version)
2. Slow 'Nuff
3. Buzzy
4. Yardbird Suite
5. Relaxin 'at Camarillo
6. Confirmation
7. Billie's Bounce
8. Koko
9. Barbados
10.Dewey Square
11.Moose the Mooch
12.Ornithology
13.Scrapple From the Apple
14. Salt Peanuts
15. Big Foot (Short Version)
piano: bud powell / bass: George Duvivier / drums: taylor Arthor
His childhood was saturated with music, his older brother played the trumpet professionally and violin and his grandfather, Zachary, was the best flamenco guitarist in the United States. Her father, pianist stride attached style, supported his early vocation and gave the first lectures. Their progress was spectacular and at that time, was frequently seeing him play with his friend, Elmo Hope, compositions of Bach and other classics. It was not until 1939, when Powell got his first major contract with the Royals Sunset Valaida Snnow singer and in 1939 he recorded his first album titled The Reverse Changers for the Duke label and under the leadership of saxophonist Frank Sokolov.
It was not until 1944 when, inspired by Thelonious Monk, he joined the Cootie Williams Orchestra and recorded very brief one Blue Garden Blues, first real sign of his colossal talent. That same year he suffered his first arrest for public scandal and the following year received a brutal beating by Philadelphia police that left him touched presumably forever. His psychological disorders were reproduced and sent to a psychiatric hospital in Long Island. In 1946, he recovered, he joined the small combo of bassist John Kirby and chance did that little training was hired in Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, the "temple" of bebop, where Powell contacted the staff of that movement, which allowed participation between 1946 and 1947 in a good number of jam sessions with Dexter Gordon, Jay Jay Johnson, Sonny Stitt, Kenny Clarke and Sarah Vaughan, among others.
His debut as a leader took place on January 10, 1947 for the Three Deuces small label, and in May of that year, he recorded the only studio to record with Charlie Parker's Savoy. A long hiatus of two years, mostly consumed in the Creedmore Sanatorium boarding school, where he even electro-shock treatment, gave way, paradoxically, his most fertile artistic period. As of August 8, 1949, under the supervision of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, Bud Powell left in the coffers of the stamp Blue Note another vision of modern piano perfectly compatible with that just two years earlier had made Thelonious Monk. After being admitted again for seventeen months in another psychiatric hospital in February 1953 was discharged and formed a steady trio with the bassist George Duvidier and drummer Art Taylor.
On May 15, 1953, an historic event in the professional life of Bud Powell. Along with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus and Max Roach, participated in a massive concert at Massey Hall in Toronto in Canada, considered the swan song of bebop and perhaps the best jazz concert of all time. Thereafter, Powell began to enter a phase of profound mental deterioration almost irreversible, but in 1956 did a European tour with Miles Davis, Lester Young and the Modern Jazz Quartet by Milt Jackson. Repeated visits to the old continent in 1959, but this time he was five years. He was accompanied Altevia Edwards, better known as Buttercup and chose Paris as a place of residence.
received with the honors of a jazz great, formed a regular trio known as the Three Bosses with bassist Pierre Michelot and drummer Kenny Clarke, with whom were the main attraction of Paris Blue Note club. It was a period in his life thanks to the care that is provided Francis Paudras, un extraordinario aficionado al jazz y posterior autor de la biografía de Powell, The Dance Of The Infidels . Pero aquejado de tuberculosis aguda, incapaz de dejar la bebida, y nostálgico de New York, Bud Powell regresó a los Estados Unidos. Su reaparición en el mítico Birdland provocó uno de los momentos dulces de su carrera. Siete minutos de ininterrumpido aplauso demostraron que sus incondicionales no lo habían olvidado, pero aquella reaparición fue sólo un cruel espejismo. Sus dos últimos años los pasó en un apartamento de Brooklyn acompañado por su hija Celia.
Ya casi al final de su vida, participó en 1965 en sendos conciertos celebrados en el Town Hall y en el Carnegie Hall, the latter in honor of the tenth anniversary of the death of Charlie Parker, but the July 31, 1966 died at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn. More than 5000 people took to the streets spontaneously to honor him, and his burial Barry Harris and Lee Morgan played in his honor. As Francis said Paudras: ".... Bud Powell had two personalities. One urged him to fight and overcome their problems, to play and create music. The other was dragging him to self-destruction, the utter lack of self-respect , and the latter would win the game. "
In 1986, French film director Bertrand Tavernier film was an extraordinary recoió with absolute cleanliness and fidelity Bud Powell Parisian stage. His film , Round Midnight, starring in his starring role by saxophonist Dexter Gordon is one of the great jazz-related films.
www.apoloybaco.com
Tracks 1. Big Foot (Long Version)
2. Slow 'Nuff
3. Buzzy
4. Yardbird Suite
5. Relaxin 'at Camarillo
6. Confirmation
7. Billie's Bounce
8. Koko
9. Barbados
10.Dewey Square
11.Moose the Mooch
12.Ornithology
13.Scrapple From the Apple
14. Salt Peanuts
15. Big Foot (Short Version)
piano: bud powell / bass: George Duvivier / drums: taylor Arthor
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