94th birthday of Dexter Gordon

(Born 27 February 1923, Los Angeles, US)

Tenor saxophonist and composer, towering jazz ambassador who stars as “Dale Turner”, a composite character of himself, fellow tenor saxophonist Lester Young and pianist Bud Powell in the 1986 movie Round Midnight directed by Bertrand Tavernier

(Dexter Gordon Quartet, “Body and soul” [Gordon, tenor saxophone; George Gruntz, piano; Guy Pederston, bass; Daniel Humair, drums; recorded: live, Jazz Prisma, Brussels, Belgium, 8 January 1964])

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92nd birthday of Bud Powell

(Born 27 September 1924, Harlem, New York, US)

Virtuosic pianist, composer and one of the inaugurators of the bebop revolution in jazz in New York in the early 1940s

1. (Bud Powell Quintet, “Bouncing with Bud” [personnel: Powell, piano; Fats Navarro, trumpet; Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone; Tommy Potter, bass; Roy Haynes, drums; recorded: live, Blue Note Jazz Club, New York, US, 9 August 1949])

2. (Bud Powell Trio, “Anthropology” [personnel: Powell, piano; Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson, bass; Jorn Elniff, drums; recorded: live, Café Montemarte, Copenhagen, Denmark, 26 April 1962])

3. (Bud Powell Trio, “’Round midnight” [personnel and recording details as in “2” above ])

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91st birthday of Bud Powell

(Born 27 September 1924, Harlem, New York, US)

Virtuosic pianist, composer and one of the inaugurators of the bebop revolution in jazz in New York in the early 1940s

1. (Bud Powell Quintet, “Bouncing with Bud” [personnel: Powell, piano; Fats Navarro, trumpet; Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone; Tommy Potter, bass; Roy Hayne, drums; recorded: live, Blue Note Jazz Club, New York, 9 August 1949])

2. (Bud Powell Trio, “Anthropology” [personnel: Powell, piano; Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson, bass; Jorn Elniff, drums; recorded: live, Café Montemarte, Copenhagen, 26 April 1962])

3. (Bud Powell Trio, “’Round midnight” [personnel and recording details as in “2” above ])

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90th birthday of Bud Powell

(Born 27 September 1924, Harlem, New York, US)

Virtuosic pianist, composer and one of the inaugurators of the bebop revolution in jazz in New York in the early 1940s

(Bud Powell Trio, “Un poco loco” [Powell, piano; Curley Russell, bass; Max Roach, drums; recorded: WOR Studios, New York, 1 May 1951])

(Thelonious Monk Quartet plays “In walked Bud”, a 1947 Monk composition, a jazz standard, in honour of fellow bebop revolutionary Bud Powell [personnel: Monk, piano; Johnny Griffin, tenor saxophone; Ahmed Abdul-Malik, bass; Roy Haynes, drums; recorded: live, Five Spot Café, New York, 7 August 1958])

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