Bud Powell

Earl " Bud" Powell (born with New York on September 27th 1924 - died with New York on July 31st 1966) is a Pianiste of American Jazz.

Biography

Earl Rudolph “Bud” Powell was born on September 27th 1924 in New York from a family from musicians (his/her large father is guitarist, its father pianist, and his/her older brother is trumpet player and pianist). Bud begins the piano at 6 years and listening much of classical music.

Bud leaves the school in 1939, and plays in the orchestra of his/her brother. It is on this date that it becomes acquainted with Thelonious Monk.

Of 1942 with 1944, Bud Powell plays in the orchestra of Cootie Williams. Honeysuckle Pink is one of his first recorded faces. The evening of the January 21st 1945, it and Thelonious Monk are violently made attack by police officers. The blows received by Bud Powell will mark the beginning of its mental disorders. The same year, Bud Powell plays on the 52ième street. The following year, it is invited to many meetings of recording. From 1947 to 1948, it goes to record in trio, with the Contrebassiste Curly Russell and the beater max Roach. Bud Powell also records with Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. Their musical agreement is perfect but their meeting is a source of conflicts. Bud Powell records in 1949 with the Clef label of the promoter Norman Granz. It carries out, at that time, of the stays psychatric during several weeks.

Bud Powell records her best faces of 1947 with 1953, as Somebody coil to me , has night in Tunisia .

In the middle of the years 1950, Bud Powell records with various labels.

Bud Powell will settle in 1959 with Paris, because he is with the label Blue Note. Its worsening state, it is often interned in psychiatric hospitals, it drinks… In 1960, it makes a round in all the France and in Suisse, then the following year, in Italy. Bud Powell dies on July 31st 1966 of a pneumonia.

Bud Powell attended the high places of the bebop. He was a large friend of Thelonious Monk, which said that he was capable one to the only include/understand his music.

He is regarded as " the équivalent" of Charlie Parker with the piano. Its play is surprisingly fast and clear. Monk will say of him: " No one could play like Budgetary Too difficult. Too quick. Incredible! " (" Nobody can play like Too difficult Bud. Too much fast. Incredible! ")

Discography

Bud' S Bubble (1947)
Tempus fugit (1949)
Get happy (1950)
a poco loco (1951)
Hammer dowries and moon-beams (1953)
Buttercup (1954)
Design (1955)
Monk' S Mood (1961)
Bouncing with Bud (1962)

Compositions

Among his the most known compositions, one can quote:

Poco Loco
Tempus Running away-It (or Tempus Fugit )
Dance off the Infidels
Bouncing with Bud
Cleopatra' S Dream
Hallucinations
Celia

Selections of recordings on CD

" Early Recordings"

Tempus Running away-It - Four discs since the recordings of 1944 with Cootie Williams until the first sessions for Blue Notes and Key in 1949-50.

Label Blue Notes

The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume One - 1949 and 1951.
The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume Two - 1953.
The Amazing Bud Powell, Three Volume - Bud! - 1957.
Time Waits - 1958.
The Scene Exchanges - 1958.
The Supplements Blue Note and Roost Recordings - Four discs comprennnant the recordings above like two other sessions (1947 and 1953).

Label Liveliness

The Supplements Bud Powell one Liveliness - First discs, sessions of 1949 to 1956.
The Best off Bud Powell one Liveliness - Compilation of best works of Powell for this label.

External bonds

Discography
Site dedicated to Bud Powell (includes recordings mp3)
Bud Powell

Literature

"Dance of Infidèles" of Francis Paudras

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