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Bud Powell (featuring Fats Navarro): Wail (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 25, 07

"Wail" is one of my favorite bebop recordings. This three minute gem has it all -- a great melody by Bud Powell (why...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS

We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...

Bud Powell: Wail (Alternate Take) (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 01, 09

Though he'd already garnered a solid swing-to-bop reputation during his stint with Lester Young, Roy Haynes's ensuing...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ROY HAYNES

The century mark is a uniquely exciting time in the development of a major musical style. History is unearthed, co...

Bud Powell: Un Poco Loco (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

"Un Poco Loco" can't be autobiographical because Bud Powell was more than a little crazy. Bopped on the noggin by, re...

Bud Powell: Parisian Thoroughfare (trio version) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

Bud Powell moans through his trio’s performance of “Parisian Thoroughfare,” but you can forgive him, in light on what...

Bud Powell: Bud's Bubble (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

In 1945, Bud Powell was bopped on the head during a Philly fracas that led to (a) his arrest for disorderly conduct a...

Bud Powell: Hallucinations (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

During a 1945 fracas resulting in his arrest for disorderly conduct, Bud Powell was reportedly bopped on the head by ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KRAZY KATS

"America is a mistake," declared Sigmund Freud after visiting the U.S. in 1909. The contempt was not mutual. With typ...

Bud Powell: Bouncing With Bud (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 11, 09

At age 15, bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen was asked to accompany Bud Powell during the bebop legend's first en...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: NIELS-HENNING ØRSTED PEDERSEN

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Bud Powell: Parisian Thoroughfare (solo piano version) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

Bud Powell’s solo piano session from early 1951 ranks among his finest dates. At a time when few modern jazz pianist...

Bud Powell: Sweet Georgia Brown (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 28, 07

Twenty-five years old when this recording was made, Bud Powell was already a tragic figure, marked by his institution...

Bud Powell: Collard Greens And Black Eyed Peas (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

Bud Powell has been acclaimed as the father of modern jazz piano for adapting Charlie Parker’s bebop innovations to h...

Bud Powell: Just One of Those Things (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music June 03, 08

Bud Powell, like most of the first generation of bop keyboardists, tended to favor bass and drum accompaniment, and r...

Eddie Palmieri: In Walked Bud (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music February 03, 09

It has been rare to hear Eddie Palmieri on record interpreting jazz standards, as he does with Thelonious Monk's "In ...

Carmen McRae: Suddenly (aka In Walked Bud) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 07, 09

While she was plagued by poor health in her final years, Carmen McRae produced several fine recordings in the late 19...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: SCAT SINGING

Scat singing—improvised solos created by a vocalist using nonsense syllables for words—is one of the great parado...

Chick Corea: Tempus Fugit (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 22, 08

In early 1949, with sidemen Ray Brown and Max Roach, Bud Powell first recorded what would become a jazz standard, and...

Bud Powell: Cleopatra's Dream (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 04, 09

The Scene Changes was Bud Powell's last Blue Note recording. Three months after the session that produced it, Powell ...

Bud Powell: I Should Care (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music May 08, 08

Bud Powell was still a young man when he recorded this track -- he would turn 32 two weeks later -- but he had alread...

Charlie Parker: Ornithology (Live at Birdland 1950) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 29, 09

I have owned several versions of this exact recording, and almost all of them are technically flawed in one way or ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: STEVE COLEMAN ON CHARLIE PARKER

The music of Charles Christopher Parker—as well as the music of many other musicians—probably has the greatest infl...

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Dance of the Infidels (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music April 26, 08

The presence of Bud Powell alongside Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter makes this an often-overlooked yet essential Jazz M...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL ART BLAKEY

By the age of 25 (1944), Pittsburgh-native Art Blakey had already completed stints with Mary Lou Williams and Fletche...

Toshiko Akiyoshi: Cleopatra's Dream (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music April 01, 08

Bud Powell's final Blue Note session as a leader (1958) featured several memorable originals, including the minor coo...

Charlie Parker: Donna Lee (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 15, 09

I could have accessed so many pieces from this era, but I really like “Donna Lee.” It’s a great band, a revolutionary...

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