Bud Powell
ALBUM
Una raccolta completa degli album di Bud Powell, dalle prime produzioni ai successi più recenti.
Bud Powell
Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1
Blue Note Classic
Bud Powell
The Complete Bud Powell On Verve
Replacement
Bud Powell
Compact Jazz
Bud Powell
The Lonely One
Bud Powell
Piano
Bud Powell
Piano Interpretations
Bud Powell
The Amazing Bud Powell
Bud Powell
The Scene Changes: The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 5)
192kHz/24-bit
Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell, Pierre Michelot
Our Man In Paris
Optimized For Digital
Bud Powell
Piano Solos
Bud Powell
Bud Powell's Moods
Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell
The Quintet: Jazz At Massey Hall
Limited Edition
Bud Powell
The Scene Changes
Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell, J.J. Johnson
Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell, J.J. Johnson
Bud Powell
The Very Best
Bud Powell
Bud Powell '57
Bud Powell
Blues In The Closet
Bud Powell
Ultimate Bud Powell
Bud Powell
The Amazing Bud Powell, Bud!
Volume 3/Rudy Van Gelder Edition
Bud Powell
The Amazing Bud Powell: Vol. 1
The Rudy Van Gelder EditionBud Powell
Jazz Giant
Bud Powell
Time Waits
Vol. 4Bud Powell
Jazz Profile: Bud Powell
Bud Powell
The Best Of Bud Powell On Verve
Bud Powell
The Genius Of Bud Powell
Bud Powell
The Best Of Bud Powell
BIOGRAFIA
Earl "Bud" Powell was born in New York City on September 27, 1924, to a musical family. His grandfather had picked up Flamenco guitar in Cuba during the Spanish American War, and his father, William, was a stride pianist who taught Bud the rudiments of the instrument.
He quit school at 15 and began working small clubs in Coney Island. After his regular gigs he would tour the Harlem bars. Thelonious Monk introduced him to the nascent musical revolution at Minton’s. Thus before he was 18, Bud had played with Charlie Christian and Charlie Parker and had come under Monk’s pervasive influence. A year later, when he joined Cootie Williams’ band, he was instrumental in getting Williams to record Monk’s "’Round Midnight."
Bud recorded with Cootie’s big band and sextet in 1944, his first recordings. A year later, at 21, he was arrested in Philadelphia for disorderly conduct and a month after was sent to a mental institution, the first of many.
From that point on, there seemed to be two Bud Powells, the fabulous pianist and the distinctive composer who could be heard on 52nd Street with Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Dizzy Gillespie, Don Byas, Sidney Catlett, and others, and the erratic, heavy-drinking, frequently querulous man who was a patient in a succession of mental institutions.
What we can say with certainty is that between 1947 and 1953, Bud Powell recorded some of the most startling piano music of our time. In later years, the thundering technique withered into incoherence, the fine, steely triphammer melodic lines were dulled — some of the recordings are painful to hear. But the spark of greatness never completely abandoned him and there are moments throughout his brief, tortured career when the intensity of his thought seems to impel his fingers in sustained creativity.
In 1959, Bud Powell moved to Paris where he received some of the recognition due him. His drinking was a constant problem, however, and although he did some substantial playing in this period, he was suffering from tuberculosis as well as alcoholism. Partially motivated by the expenses incurred during his illness, Bud returned to the United States in August 1964. Upon returning to New York, he was warmly received by the fans at Birdland for an extended engagement. The critical response reflected his inconsistency — some insisted he was in top form, others left in embarrassed disappointment. After the Birdland engagement, he lived in Brooklyn and worked sporadically; he appeared on a concert bill with Albert Ayler and Milford Graves.
But Powell died August 1, 1966 — the diagnosis was tuberculosis, alcoholism, and malnutrition.
Gary Giddins
Excerpted from: Bud Powell Jazz Giant 829 937-2
ULTIME NEWS
27.09.2022
98 anni fa nasceva Earl “Bud” Powell, grande genio creatore del jazz moderno e del bebop
98 anni fa nasceva Earl “Bud” Powell: grande genio creatore del jazz moderno (vero padre del bebop al fianco di Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie e Fats Navarro), lo straordinario pianista incise per la celeberrima etichetta Blue Note Records una serie di capolavori che testimoniano in modo perfetto l’evoluzione della sua carriera. Dagli anni del 78 giri fino all’affermazione del vinile, dalle incisioni con piccoli gruppi alla stringata essenzialità dei trii con contrabbasso e batteria, Powell ha lasciato materiale per cinque straordinari album passati alla storia con il titolo di ‘The Amazing Bud Powell’, tutti riuniti in un box con i CD in singole bustine con le copertine originali, in esclusiva assoluta per gli appassionati italiani.
07.02.2014
