Bud Powell - The Best Of Bud Powell 1944-62 Vol. 2Bud Powell was one of the most important and influential jazz pianists of the post war era. Brief, patchy and sadly interrupted by illness and misfortune as his career was, he helped change the conventions of jazz piano at the birth of bebop, and introduced techniques taken up by dozens of noted players in his wake, abandoning the established striding left hand technique in favour of spacey irregular patterns of dissonant chords, while the right hand

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Bud Powell was one of the most important and influential jazz pianists of the post-war era

During the decade from 1952-62

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singer and songwriter who was a leading pioneer and member of what became known as the Piedmont school of bluesmen

The collection comprises recordings which are seen as significant performances in the genesis and development of bebop as a genre

" "Bring It On Home To Me

continuing to record into the 1960s as their style evolved

who had 9 hits during the year

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