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ARTIST
POWELL, BUD
TITLE
Live at the Blue Note Café, Paris 1961
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
ESP-DISK
CATALOG #
ESPDISK 4036CD
ESPDISK 4036CD
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
11/5/2007
Bud Powell
was one of the major architects of bebop; his piano style became the template for most other bop pianists. But a head injury incurred during a police beating, combined with alcohol and drug abuse and poor medical treatment (including electroshock), made him mentally unstable and led to a deterioration in his playing. Eventually he moved to France to get away from the exacerbating conditions of New York. His later work has a bad reputation; the increasing unpredictability of his personality led to nights where he could barely perform, and tales of his erratic behavior spread. But he had his good nights too, and his later work cannot be uniformly dismissed. The evenings documented on this album's material, which ESP licensed from his wife after his death, were two of his good nights, and not just because he's in the company of famed compatriots
Zoot Sims
(for half the album) and
Kenny Clarke
. For that matter, the less famous
Pierre Michelot
was one of the best French jazzers. This is superb jazz that requires no apologies. This edition restores the original cover art.
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