Identifying the Impulse

"...day, including two formidable piano talents, Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell...."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Jeff Mccord

Better Git It in Your Soul

Why listen to jazz's greatest bassist Charles Mingus today? The Creative Opportunity Orchestra's monthlong Mingus Among Us series has answers.

"...Debut, playing with Roach, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell...."

June 16, 2006 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Letters at 3AM

The experience of jazz is the experience of beauty

"...writing these columns to Bird, Trane, Mingus, Lee Konitz, Bud Powell, Coleman Hawkins, Ornette, Monk, Lester Young, Clifford Brown,..."

March 2, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

The Composer's Roots

A look at the career of a premier jazz pianist, Dallas-born Cedar Walton

"...Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, citing Art Tatum and Bud Powell as his primary influences in those days. Following..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Tethered Moon Chansons de Edith Piaf (Winter & Winter) / Paul Motian & the Electric Bebop Band Monk & Powell (Winter & Winter)

"...& Winter)Paul Motian & the Electric Bebop BandMonk & Powell (Winter & Winter) The French chanson is the stuff..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Review by Jeff Mccord

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...efforts of his various record companies and high school buddy Frank Zappa (who christened him Beefheart and produced Trout..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Reissues

"...the moment of his commercial emergence; just as Eddie Cochran/Buddy Holly-damaged as the Beatles or the Stones, but more..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

Provocative Pop, Emo Legends, and More Crucial Concerts

Know your shows

"...Hubbard, Don Braden, and more. A pianist from the Bud Powell/Oscar Peterson school, Green had led trios, quartets, and..."

Aug. 23, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White

Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods

The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography

"...During 1946-47, Dorham freelanced with pianist Bud Powell, saxophonist Sonny Stitt, and charismatic drummer Art Blakey,..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Uncompromising Expression: 75 Years of the Finest in Jazz

Out of the basement and under the tree!

"..."Moanin'" are genuine treasures from Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Smith,..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Clash of the Titans

Neil Young & Crazy Horse (Saturday, 8pm, Bud Light stage) vs. Jack White (Saturday, 8pm, AMD stage)

"...– Austin Powell..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Aural History

Jeff Lofton, son of an Army drill instructor, sure doesn’t play trumpet like one – or does he?

"...especially Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson, and of course Bud Powell – that are multiple concepts, and put it..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

"...too short, performance footage from Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bud Powell, and Don Cherry, the bulk of the film..."

Dec. 26, 2008 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Sonny Stitt

Jazz sides

"...of the day. These include stunning sessions with pianist Bud Powell, trombonist J.J. Johnson, and drummer Max Roach. Of..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Jimmy Smith

Gift guide

"...a brilliant technician, influenced strongly by bop piano great Bud Powell. Smith never abandoned the trio format, but also..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Miles Davis

In Box

"...he plays seems right. He synthesizes the styles of Bud Powell and Red Garland, never at a loss for..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon

Reissues

"...is loosely based on the lives of jazz titans Bud Powell and Lester Young. The basic group here, a..."

June 21, 2002 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Effendi

Talking jazz with piano great McCoy Tyner

"...keys. And with the synthesized power of Art Tatum, Bud Powell's lyricism, and the creative looping of Thelonious Monk,..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Music Feature by David Lynch

Better Than Nothing

Documentarian Ken Burns' takes on Jazz -- and loses.

"...Motors "... gave us 35% of the [$14 million] budget." Naturally, GM is putting up that kind of money..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Charlie Parker

"...first and last word on bebop, starring Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Miles Davis, and Charles "Yardbird" Parker...."

Dec. 15, 2000 Music Review by Jeff Mccord

Thelonious Monk

"...of bebop; Monk's far-ranging influence marks the work of Bud Powell and other boppers, while a number of his..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

John Lewis Evolution (Atlantic)

National Records

"...less syncopated than that of other bop pianists, e.g. Bud Powell, and relatively speaking, he didn't emphasize swinging so..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Horace Silver Retrospective (Blue Note)

Box Sets

"...future of jazz. Concerned that Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and others were taking the music down an..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Review by Jeff Mccord

Un Dios

"...And Dizzy. And Sarah [Vaughan], Milt Jackson, Ray Brown, Buddy Rich. Imagine. For me, it was extraordinary. Super...."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

A Cultural Imperative

"...out by internationally famed boppers and post-boppers Sonny Stitt, Bud Powell, Donald Byrd, and Wynton Kelly...."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature by Harvey Pekar

Reissues

"...artists, are at their best. Silver owes more to Bud Powell and is less funky than he would be..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...of modern jazz. A contemporary of Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell, he recorded infrequently during his lifetime. Ironically, Nichols..."

June 6, 1997 Music Review

A Revolutionary Letter to Artists

Someone waved

"...Herman Melville working a day job and writing Billy Budd at night, after Moby Dick had been ignored and..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Column

ACL Music Fest Saturday Listings

The blurbing of ACL 2011

"...Jam From '73" and "Control Freak." – Austin Powell Aloe Blacc & The Grand Scheme..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Feature

ACL Music Fest Sunday Listings

The blurbing of ACL 2011

"...There's no talk of new recordings yet. – Austin Powell Sunday Gospel..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Music Feature

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