Bud Powell
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Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American jazz pianist and composer. A pioneer in the development of bebop and its associated contributions to jazz theory, Powell's application of complex phrasing to
Powell in 1960
Creedmoor State Hospital
Navarro, who recorded with Powell for Blue Note
The Birdland jazz club as it appeared c. 1950, presenting Powell's friend Ella Fitzgerald
Toshiko Akiyoshi
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Toshiko Akiyoshi is a Japanese jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader.
Bud Powell
…jazz theory, Powell's application of complex phrasing to the piano influenced both his contemporaries and later pianists including Walter Davis Jr., Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Barry Harris. Born in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance to a musical family, Powell, during the 1930s, developed an attacking, right-handed…
Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1978
Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band