Ramsey, Guthrie P.

The amazing Bud Powell : Black genius, jazz history, and the challenge of bebop / Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. - Berkeley : Chicago : University of California Press ; Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, 2013. - xi, 240 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm. - Music of the African diaspora ; 17 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Little cullud boys with beards : serious Black music and the art of bebop -- Something else : the tests and triumphs of a modernist -- Notes and tones : Black genius in the social order -- Making the changes : jazz manhood, bebop virtuosity, and a new social contract -- Exploding narratives and structures in the art of Bud Powell -- Coda : cultural accreditation and requiem for a heavyweight.

9780520243910 (cloth : alk. paper)

2012039182


Powell, Bud--Criticism and interpretation.


Jazz--History and criticism.

ML417.P73 / R36 2013

786.2/165092