Bud Powell
American jazz pianist and composerWikipedia
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Oct 21, 2026
Mitch JoelHOST
the music more.
Michael KarnGUEST
Like Louis Armstrong was on the scene and then Earl Hines sort of translated this into piano and they call like Bud Powell was sort of took Charlie Parker's language and put it on the Andy
Mitch JoelHOST
Randazzo was saying that to me also the other day, that he thinks it's because a lot of the music was formulated by the horn.
Mitch JoelHOST
I'm less sophisticated, so I thought, well, why wouldn't it be guitar or piano? But I guess it's just usually horn-led.
ChrisHOST
Excited to get into this one here as part of the 2026 Tone Poet Vinyl Series is Sonny Rollins' Volume 2.
ChrisHOST
Having first appeared on a Blue Note session as a member of Bud Powell's Modernists in 1949, Sonny Rollins returned to the label in 1956 to record a series of four tremendous leader dates in less than a year.
ChrisHOST
Recorded April 1957, the saxophonist's second album for Alfred Lyon, Volume 2, found him in esteemed company with J.J. Johnson on trombone, Horace Silver on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Art Blakey on drums for a high-spirited bop date.
ChrisHOST
And then for the album's two centerpieces, Thelonious Monk joins the festivities and... for some memorable versions of his own compositions.
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ChrisHOST
Born and raised in New York City, Sonny began his professional career with the colorful Babs Gonzalez.
ChrisHOST
He has since worked with almost every artist of any repute in modern jazz.
ChrisHOST
Parker, Bud Powell, Fats DeVaro, Miles Davis, Todd Dameron, Kenny Dorham, Clifford Brown, Art Farmer, and Roach, among many others.
ChrisHOST
Of the magnificent Thelonious Monk, little can be said that has not already been said.
Jack CoyneHOST
Yeah.
Jon BatisteGUEST
And In Walk Bud is a tribute to Bud Powell.
Jon BatisteGUEST
Bud Powell is a pianist who was his contemporary and also a unique, unsung, underrated genius.
Jon BatisteGUEST
And they were like best friends.
Jon BatisteGUEST
In this time, he was writing a song in dedication to Bud that captured Bud's voice.
Jon BatisteGUEST
how you would write if you were writing in the voice of a character or a person that's not you, but you wanted people to also know that it was you that wrote it.
Jon BatisteGUEST
It's such a flip, and that's the gift of having these recordings.
Jon BatisteGUEST
You could study this, and then we could put Bud Powell on, and then you'd be able to be like, oh, I hear what he was doing.
Matthew ShippGUEST
So when you put that with the kind of post-bop roots that he has, especially coming out of Philadelphia, because there is some.
Matthew ShippGUEST
Not only does Bud Powell bleed into his early playing, but Hassan Ibn Ali, the great, what I call mystery school pianist out of Philly, who, Odin Pope, the saxophonist who knew Hassan very well, told me he was over Hassan's house a lot when McCoy was a teenager and coming over.
Matthew ShippGUEST
And, you know, Hassan was showing him things.
Matthew ShippGUEST
I think I recall Odin telling me that I could be having a I'm in my mid 60s now.
John ClaytonGUEST
Why Ray is so important to the music that we love is because he was alongside, standing next to, playing with the founders of bebop.
John ClaytonGUEST
Dizzy and Bird and Bud Powell and Monk and A lot of the bass contribution to bebop started with Ray Brown.
John ClaytonGUEST
Yes, Bird did have other, as did Dizzy, have other bass players, but Ray is the one who really kind of brought it to a level and a height from the get-go that helped catapult the music.
John ClaytonGUEST
His drive, his bass lines, his solos, the feature things that he used to do with Dizzy Gillespie's big band.
Robb CappellettoGUEST
I mean, we both grew up as metal kids, essentially.
Robb CappellettoGUEST
And I think we are into a lot of was some common ground which is you know a reason we talk a lot about tony rice um but also you know talk a lot about hendrix and i think more so than just being into the same players we like players that exhibit the same kinds of characteristics so if i get him flat picking an alan holdsworth solo it's like yeah this is hard but let's get to it you know or flat-picking Bud Powell, whatever it is.
Robb CappellettoGUEST
He never gives me any contest on any of that stuff.
Robb CappellettoGUEST
He knows if I'm giving him something, there is some long-term outcome for
Larry SeidmanHOST
That's the man who died with him in that horrible car crash.
Larry SeidmanHOST
It was Bud Powell's brother.
Larry SeidmanHOST
Harold Land on tenor sax, George Morrow bass, and drummer Max Roach.
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