Thelonious Monk + Bud Powell

One of the most creative piano players of all times.

•→ Essential recordings ⇐

⇐ Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

– a 1988 documentary produced by Clint Eastwood, Bruce Ricker, and directed/co-produced by Charlotte Zwerin; it features live performances by Monk and his group, and posthumous interviews with friends and family. The film was created when a large amount of archived footage of Monk was found in the 1980s.

¤ Thelonious Monk + Tenor Sax: Charlie Rouse + Bass: Larry Gales + Drums: Ben Riley ⇓

•→ Norway – 1966 ← 1. Lulu’s Back In Town. 2. Blue Monk. 3. ‘Round Midnight.

•→ Denmark – 1966 ← 1. Lulu’s Back In Town. 2. Don’t Blame Me. 3. Epistrophy.

•→ Poland – 1966 ← 1. Epistrophy 2. Round Midnight 3. Lulu’s Back In Town

⇓ ‘Round Midnight’ ⇒

♦ ‘Hackensack’ ↓ [1964]

♦ T.M. Quartet ↓ ‘Nutty’

♦ ‘Don’t Blame Me’ ↓

♦ ‘Rhythm a Ning’ ↓

♦ ‘Blue Monk’ ↓

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¤ Wail: The Life of Bud Powell ←

Read Peter Pullman‘s extraordinary chronicling of Bud Powell’s fabulous, dramatic rise and fall, as the modern-jazz pianist, told with the colorful surroundings of the Harlem, midtown Manhattan, and Paris nightclub milieux.

Click pic to read a generous excerpt from Wail: The Life of Bud Powell, and to learn how to order the book→

♦ «Bouncing With Bud» ↓ [The Amazing Bud Powel_1949]

Sonny Rollins (ts), Fats Navarro (tp), Bud Powell (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d).