Ethan Iverson - Bud Powell In The 21st Century - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The effects of the bebop revolution in jazz music are still being felt and explored. Of the half dozen true pioneers of the movement, pianist Bud Powell has remained somewhat in the shadows, although his work has become a major touchstone for true devotees of the music and a principal influence for most of jazz's most explorative pianists. // Powell's brilliant original compositions are essential, infinitely listenable but also strangely tricky. Unlike Monk, Parker and Gillespie, the composer neglected to perform them much after their original recordings, so they never became a part of the jazz lingua franca. Pianist and historian Ethan Iverson provides a fantastic validation of Powell's compositional genius on his new recording, Bud Powell In The 21st Century, a reworking of a number of Powell's pieces for big band. Album Tracks 1. Bud Powell in the 21st Century I. Choral 2. Bud Powell in the 21st Century II. Continuity 3. Celia 4. Tempus Fugit 5. Five Simple Spells I. Chorale 6. Bouncing with Bud 7. Five Simple Spells II. Waltz 8. Wail 9. Five Simple Spells III. Chorale 10. Dance of the Infidels 11. Five Simple Spells V. Moderato 12. 52nd Street Theme 13. Five Simple Spells V. Ballad 14. I'll Keep Loving You 15. Nobile Paradiso 16. Un Poco Loco