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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