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Evening At Bud's
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2020
A channel dedicated to the great jazz pianist Earl Bud Powell.
Bud Powell interview at Bouffemont
Rare interview of Bud Powell conducted during Bud's stay at Bouffemont sanatorium in France in 1963. English subtitles by yours truly.
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I always loved Bud's playing. I heard he had no formal training. People nowadays gave no clue the endless hard work and persistence all these jazz greats possessed. The assumption then was that blacks were intellectually inferior to whites, and there were only two routes to success for them - either preacher of jazz musician. The motivation of all these jazz giants was to both make big money and prove their great intellectual capacity.
How did Art Tatum drive? He was legally blind!
yes haha this is what I was thinking
Maybe he drove by feel!
Greatest in the world
Thanks for sharing. Beautiful.
He sounds incredibly sound of mind, and really like he'd be out of there soon back on form. Oh if he'd been able to live a longer healthier life...
Too bad he had to be a victim of police brutality
So great when he starts singing, you can sense some of the huge human being he was
These are really dumb interview questions. Nice to hear Bud speak, but the questions wasted the opportunity.
That is a very negative thing to say. I am Grateful to be able to even hear his voice. What a treasure to be able to hear this. Closest thing to time traveling that we have. We are blessed to have these moments nonetheless.
May I suggest you read the chapters "Blues For Bouffémont" and "Una noche Con Francis" in Paudras' book "Dance Of The Infidels: A Portrait Of Bud Powell"? You will have a better understanding of the circumstances of this interview. These documents are historical gems (both the book and the recording!)
this is a great gift, thank you for the upload
10:52 the lick
People sleep on Bud Powell
This is a treasure !!!!
Great video. Very enlightening, and thanks for the subtitles. I noticed from this, as stated in the video also; Bud never looked at the keys when he played, going mostly from touch and memory. Shares a lot in common with Art Tatum and Lennie Tristiano who were both blind. A shame the audio cuts off at around the 37:40 mark. I`m guessing copyright issue with Mingus band playing.
At 08:10, can anyone source this recording of 52nd street theme? I have not been able to find it anywhere!
th-cam.com/video/W4FEfzl0IgI/w-d-xo.html at approximately 46:19 minutes. Your welcome, my brother! 🙌
@@inkognito8400 THANK YOU!!!!
@@SugarBearMosher No problem. You can ask me anytime, if you aren‘t able to locate something. Btw, you are a great piano player. I hope some of these recordings help you to stimulate your musical thinking even more. 🙌
th-cam.com/video/2TX6Z7NiF0E/w-d-xo.html Nica drove across the Brooklyn Bridge to Bedford Stuyvesant in her $19,500 Bentley to sit by Bud on his death bed.
Can you imagine being a great Jazz musician & realising you are revered in Europe, having to go back to the U.S.A. where you are nothing but a boy. This is my main reason never to go to the United States.
I just realized how many french words qe have in the english vocabulary from this documentary. Interesting!
As a younger jazz musician, it feels really important to understand the lives of the people that the music that I play came from. Thank you for helping keep the experience a little more true.
Very good chunk of history in this, i've been a jazz aficionado for 50 years and I learned stuff from this!
🌈🍀💜🎇🌻💙💚💐❤️🌈
Unbelievable ... what a GREAT registration of Bud !!!
Awesome. More great content like this would amazing
Bud's offering on the final cut of Dexter Gordon's 1963 album, OUR MAN IN PARIS, brings tears. It's his beautiful take on "Like Someone in Love."
Agreed. I've always loved Bud's version of that tune. Even more moving (to me) is his heart-wrenching solo on "Stairway to the Stars"--on the same album, OUR MAN IN PARIS. It's not a flashy solo. It's mainly slow single note phrases...and it's beautiful. th-cam.com/video/pVXe8yGQcd0/w-d-xo.html
A wonderful review, with excellent contributions from some who were close...one of the giants of American music.
Why did all of Bud's pianos sound out of tune?!?!
Jazz clubs back in those days usually had crappy, unmaintained pianos. It’s not like today where jazz is considered high art, back in those days jazz was just background music for drinking. Check out all the background chatter on Bill Evans’ landmark Village Vanguard recordings.
@@icecreamforcrowhurst I understand but it seems bad pianos was a common trend for Bud. Was he too poor and unpopular to play on better sounding pianos? Even the piano at his flat which he used to record the album "Relaxin' At Home" sounded terrible
@@homelessinpeckham1094 Maybe because they were mostly upright.
Thanks for posting. How disgusting that these incredible people were treated so awfully. America should treasure these people not beat them down. 'How society can destroy a man and a personality', thats what his friend said in this. Heartbreaking. I always remember Bud! **(and Clifford).
agreed
This cruel behavior has bothered me for seventy years
BRILLIANT great VIDEO!
Bud Powell's being beaten on the head by the police may have been the start of his mental illness and any violent episodes Powell had. Research increasingly shows that blows to the head cause brain trauma in the area that controls behaviour. People who had never acted in mentally unstable ways and/or violent ways became violent after brain trauma. They assaulted, or at the worst, murdered people. I don't doubt that Powell suffered brain trauma from the beating which probably started his alcoholism and periods of erratic behaviour. Such a tragedy for a musical genius.
One of the best documentaries I've seen. I'm blessed to have a Grandfather that introduced Me to jazz when I was in elementary school. 🇵🇷✊🏾
You are indeed fortunate. It's a tall order to pass on an understanding of the adventurous beauty in jazz.
Maybe you could put in the title that it's in french? Lol
Thanks ... great and moving documentary.
Au delà du jazz, documentaire très touchant ....
The United States abuses its artists, musicians, and actors where other countries revere their talents.
Wow , thank you for sharing this moving documentary. I am amazed that no one commented here on the obvious influence of Bud's playing on Monk....I always wondered who was Monk's influence on piano.
Nice comment Rupert. Monk was 7 years older and obv deeply influenced bud as a Soul brother. But your comment is intriguing and this for e.g. feels like some Bud influence... th-cam.com/video/T9llhJJitpo/w-d-xo.html
Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk were good friends and learned a lot off each other. They would have jam sessions each each other`s houses with other musicians regularly. Another of both Bud and Monk`s friends and influences was Elmo Hope, whom Philly Joe Jones said they both idolized and looked up to the most out of all pianists in the bop scene. You can hear a bit of all three of them in each other`s playing if you listen. I think Thelonious` first obvious influence on piano was the stride great James P. Johnson, whom he was said to be in the company of early in his career.
Barry Harris says he's the absolute best
RIP Barry Harris.
most jazz pianists will happily agree buds the best. i think he’s the closest to a chopin we’ve had since chopin. he’s often associated with fast bop, but there’s a lot more music than that. his ballads are devastating. my favorite album is relaxin at home
Does anyone know the name of the piece from 2:15 to 3:07 ?
My Devotion
Why did him and Fran part ? :(
A genius of the highest order.
amazing amazing documentary.....
just to invent that name "inner exile" shows great awareness and sensitivity. I'm sure most people can relate to themselves feeling exile of their own self. at least at times.
Mary-Lou Williams had some really funny stories about Bud and Monk's friendship.
I love you Bud, you've always been the hardest one to get to know.
A tragic life for such a great musician.Bud Powell was one of a kind unique there will never be another like him.
The sensitive genius of a Bud Powell is indeed rare and priceless.
Francis paudras as donne, des conférences sur c ette periode du jazz..pour avoir bien connu bud il avait beaucoup à raconter..
Dang Bud! Respect for the Masters🙏🏾🥂❤️🥳🥳🥳🧚🏾♀️☯️✌🏾🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩😢😢
Thankfully, now I know Bud.
THANK YOU
A gifted musician who played on some pivot jazz recordings. He was troubled by mental illness, exacerbated by a brutal police beating. Like many in the field of jazz, Bud deserved much better. His glorious music still lives on.
Could you imagine getting clubbed in the head by the cops then being shocked that's some cold sh#t God rest his brillance
@@harryheath5629 Harry, that is AmeriKKKa for you. The treatment of many of the great jazz musicians in America during the mid-1940s, is truly appalling.
@@robjones2408 right man
Exacerbated by American racism.
excelente, muchisimas gracias
THANK YOU FOEVER
I guess they really can't pronounce Powell, and Hendrix. "Bad Poh-wehl" "Jshimee Ahndreex"
Thank You for this!