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Some say that he made his best recordings between 19. He was back in hospital for a brief time in early 1949 but despite all this, continued to play. Drinking had a profound effect on his character, making him aggressive or depressed. He was discharged in October 1948, but he was emotionally unstable for the rest of his career. A period of electroconvulsive therapy followed over the next three months, possibly because of an outburst by Bud after hearing this news. On one occasion, he was apparently visited by his girlfriend who told him she was pregnant with their child. They had records of his previous admission and sent him to Creedmoor State Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Queens. He was taken, incoherent and argumentative, to Harlem Hospital and then back to Bellevue. A fight ensued and Bud was hit over the eye with a bottle. It seems that in November, he had an dispute with another customer at a bar in Harlem. This was not helped by an incident that again led to him being hospitalised. Listen to Bouncing With Bud from 1949 with Sonny Rollins (tenor sax), Fats Navarro (trumpet), Bud Powell (piano), Tommy Potter (bass) and Roy Haynes (drums).īut by 1947, Bud was generally playing less. You can hear him, particularly, on the third take of Bird's recording of Donna Lee: In May 1947, Charlie Parker enlisted Bud to his Quintet with Miles Davis, Tommy Potter and Max Roach. In 1946 he recorded the jazz standard Bouncing With Bud (originally called Bebop In Pastel). He was an excellent sight-reader, could play fast, and reflected the influence of musicians like Charlie Parker. Perhaps the truth lies somewhere in between, or has elements of all of these accounts.īud went back to Manhattan after his release from hospital and soon became in demand on the club scene making a number of recordings during 19 with people like Dexter Gordon, J.J. Apparently Miles Davis said Powell was beaten by a Savoy Ballroom bouncer after walking in the club without any money. You're mistreating the greatest pianist in the world." According to this account, Bud was struck on the head by a police officer with a nightstick, and it was this injury that led to his future hospitalisations and behaviour.
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Bud tried to prevent the police from the door and yelled, "Stop, you don't know what you're doing. According to Monk biographer Thomas Fitterling, the police raided the venue and singled out Monk, who refused to show his identification and was arrested with force. Other biographies claimed that In Walked Bud was written by Monk as a 'thank you' to Bud following a raid on the Savoy Ballroom in 1945. Ten days later, with continuing headaches, he was admitted to Bellevue hospital and then to a state Psychiatric hospital sixty miles away where he stayed for two and a half months. Apparently, Dexter Gordon told the story that Bud was found wandering around Broad Street station drunk, arrested by the railroad police, beaten and handed over to the city police who locked him up. His period with Cootie ended with the now well-known incident in January 1945 when Bud was separated from the band after a gig in Philadelphia.
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Photograph Bud Powell played piano on some of Cootie Williams's Swing Orchestra recording dates in 1944, the last of which included the first-ever recording of Monk's 'Round Midnight. They became good friends and Bud would develop Monk's ideas on piano. Monk took Bud under his wing and introduced him to the musicians at Minton's Playhouse. Bud was actually underage for Uptown House, but this didn't seem to stop him being there. One of the places he frequented was Uptown House and there he heard the beginnings of bebop and met Thelonious Monk. He heard Art Tatum and began to listen to the pianist whenever he could in local venues. Bud's older brother played trumpet, and by the age of fifteen, Bud was playing in his brother's band.
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By ten, he was showing an interest in Swing and it is said that the first number he got to grips with was James P. When this recording was made, Bud had just another eight years to live.īud's father was a pianist and it is not surprising that Bud was taking classical piano lessons by the age of five. Listen to In Walked Bud from Thelonious Monk's 1958 Misterioso album with Thelonious Monk (piano), Bud was born on Septem Monk was his senior by seven years (born October 1917). Bud was born and raised in Harlem and close as he was to Monk, Bud's primary influence was Art Tatum. It was dedicated to his friend and fellow pianist Bud Powell. Thelonious Monk first recorded In Walked Bud in 1947. Suddenly in walked Bud and then they got into somethin'