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Eternity

Label: Piadrum Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Spring Is Here; Shaw 'Nuff; A Night in Tunisia; Joshua's Blues; 'Round Midnight; I Hear Music; Someone to Watch Over Me; I'll Keep Loving You; Idaho Stone; Blues for Bouff

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Bud Powell: The Complete Jazz at Massey Hall

Read "The Complete Jazz at Massey Hall" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
August 9, 2005

In 1953 the jazz genre called Be Bop, Bop, Re Bop, or Modern Jazz had fully matured and was settling in as the established mainstream rather than the cutting edge movement it had been in the early 1940s. Jazz as a style collective had begun to further fray at the ends and Be Bop gave way ...

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Bud Powell: Bebop

by AAJ Staff
June 13, 2005

By P. Christopher Dowd Bud Powell, forever known for his groundbreaking bop piano, represents a key link to the evolution of an art form, but he's also a glaring reminder that jazz is first and foremost black music. Powell is a testament to the horrors of racism and the musical expression that emerged from the black ...

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Bud Powell: Eternity

by AAJ Staff
May 8, 2005

The great Bud Powell casts a very long shadow over all jazz piano players, not to mention most melodic/harmonic improvisers, regardless of instrument. His best recordings are simply indispensable. However, it is also known to jazz fans that Powell's life “unraveled, after what today would be called a hate crime brought on a crescendo of mental ...

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Eternity

By Bud Powell

Label: Piadrum Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Spring is Here; Shaw 'Nuff; A Night in Tunisia; Joshua's Blues; 'Round Midnight; I Hear Music; Someone to Watch Over Me; I'll Keep Loving You; Idaho; Blues for Bouff

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Bud Powell: Eternity

by Jack Bowers
November 20, 2004

Let me begin by saying that I'm no Bud Powell aficionado. I understand there were undoubtedly times when he played far better than this, and times when he may have played even worse. All I can say with assurance is that had I not seen Powell's name and picture on this album, I never would have ...

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Bud Powell: Eternity

Read "Eternity" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
November 5, 2004

It is common knowledge that Bud Powell recorded several tunes while he lived in the house of Francis Paudras in Paris. Paudras sheltered these recordings, but he left the archives in the care of Celia Powell, Bud's daughter. The tracks were selected in conjunction with Jessica Shih of Piadrum Records. Paudras had a piano ...

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Bud Powell: Eternity

Read "Eternity" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
October 10, 2004

These solo piano sessions by Bud Powell were recorded between 1961 and 1964 in Paris at the home of his friend, Francis Paudras. The recordings, while made informally and never released, have preserved the sound and the spirit that the pianist espoused as a pioneer of bebop and as an influential force on many aspiring jazz ...

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Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell

by Larry Koenigsberg
March 8, 2004

Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell Francis Paudras 355 Pages ISBN: # 0-306-80816-1 Da Capo Press 1998 We should all have a friend like Francis Paudras, who nursed the great pianist Bud Powell back to health after rescuing him from an abusive caretaker. This story, ...

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