Earl "Bud" Powell translated the harmonic vocabulary of bebop horn players like Charlie Parker onto the piano, developing a fast, single-note right-hand attack over sparse, off-beat left-hand chords ('comping') that became the default language of modern jazz piano. Institutionalized repeatedly for mental illness after a 1945 police beating, he nonetheless produced a run of era-defining recordings for Blue Note and Verve through the late 1940s and '50s, including the Afro-Cuban-inflected 'Un Poco Loco.' He relocated to Paris in 1959, where a young Alice McLeod — later Alice Coltrane — sought him out for lessons.

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1951

Un Poco LocoBud Powell