Bud Powell/ A Genius, A Victim, An Artist? All Or None Of The Above?

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2 ай бұрын

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.
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@CrowClouds 2 ай бұрын

sounds like he was the victim of police brutality, not 'demons'

@JFalcony 2 ай бұрын

'Demons' is an apt metaphor. I've seen them and had to fight them to make my career as a pro musician. The name is just the name. Abuse, addiction, trauma, etc make someone change. You can believe the negative things that creep in after the darker sides of life show their ugly face and try to rip you apart. You can't believe them. I got sober and ignore the voices of my past abusers and make sure I won't be associating with unsafe people anymore.

@youngprofessor 2 ай бұрын

Police- demons… same thing

@written12 2 ай бұрын

Very well done. Such a heartbreaking story. Such beauty produced and still with us from within that painful life.

@jeffsilverman6104 2 ай бұрын

In so many cases over the years, the immense natural talent of musical virtuosity, runs hand-in-hand with severe addiction. This is across all genres of music. Being that talented, must open places inside of a person the rest of us never experience.

@warrendoris9669 2 ай бұрын

@jeffsilverman Well, in his case, I think the problems of addiction started with him self medicating after being brutalized by the cops. Though i,m inclined to agree with you about really talented people are oftimes very vulnerable from being so sensitive. If we look at history,many talented people from the past faced severe hardship.From Mozart with salieri,.to Monet being so poor his wife gets sick and eventually dies to Chopin,with his health issues.Then there,s Schubert, suffered a lot and died young To our own Ella's Fitzgerald,and Bessie.For me it's getting ripped off for decades, your songs being stolen by other artists,just recently ,totally by chance,I saw my lyrics being flashed on the screen on Kelly Clarkson, s TV show. Bur hey,i,m alive I m healthy ,and my mind is at peace. And i,m so happy that I know enough about history to not get triggered by any nefarious acts of the empathy challenged crew.

@beltigussin81 2 ай бұрын

To get inspiration some people open themselves up spiritually. You can get inspiration but other things come in as well. Read about Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley experiences. Jim Morrison as well. Robert Johnson.

@winstonsmith8240 2 ай бұрын

Music is deep.

@paxwallace8324 2 ай бұрын

The difference between Jazz and Rock or Jazz and folk is that in order to play Jazz you must get your sh!t together in all 12 keys including chromatically altered harmony. Charlie Parker famously took 3yrs off after an embarrassment in a Jam Session to practice up to 15 hrs a day. So no matter how naturally talented you might be like Bird or Diz they still needed to take time out to address these highly architectural highly structural cerebral aspects of the craft. People love to tout genius as something unattainable but the truth is as David Holland has taught many it's much more a step by step process of sweat and determination. Drugs don't help. The Drugs were both a combination of societal injustice taking it's toll and or pier pressure i.e. hipster culture. But as a jazz pianist who went through it and came out the other side into old age some cats know how to practice to find the sound they're seeking like an inquiry. Then it becomes sweat and determination.

@humanbeing5300 2 ай бұрын

drugs and music and even art in general have always had a seductive relationship - partly because artists are sensitive people, partly because drugs temporarily help open creativity and then end up destroying it, and partly because drugs help people "get inside the music and tune out the outside world"

@damianlopez-gaston2466 2 ай бұрын

Heartbreaking. I knew some but it was far worse. What would it have been like without that incident of police brutality, I wonder. Still, a genius at the piano with so many great recordings out there. Another great video. Thank you.

@TreeintheQuad 2 ай бұрын

Amazing production quality and writing. I can tell that a lot of good work went in to this. Bud lives on through his music. I bet people will still be listening centuries from now just like Bach, Scarlatti, etc.

@joshharris4407 2 ай бұрын

I believe he was a savant. Pure genius. The shit those poor guys had to endure.

@matheo7227 2 ай бұрын

Look up what a savant is. He was a Genius, but he did not have savant syndrom.

@winstonsmith8240 2 ай бұрын

I've always adored his playing but I didn't know this heartbreaking side to his life. 😢

@danmartinez5502 2 ай бұрын

This just hurts to watch but history is what it is. So many Jazz greats suffer this fate

@hassangheibi1848 2 ай бұрын

Thanks. Informative and well-narrated.

@neilbruce4201 2 ай бұрын

Such a talent, such a sad tale.

@JohnFraserFindlay 2 ай бұрын

Wow I studied his playing in 70s now I can relate to the poor guys storey that I’m older

@i.n.o.productionscompany9699 2 ай бұрын

Wow !! This is so much that I never knew before. Thank you very much

@massimolozza8069 2 ай бұрын

Hey Alexander - I appreciated your no nonsense style and mellow baritone voice - Long Live Bud - RIP 🙏

@sonicmuse 2 ай бұрын

That wasn’t Alexander’s voice! (Unless, of course, “Alexander” is the name of that particular AI-generated “mellow baritone” voice, lol.)

@edwinrivera5695 2 ай бұрын

Very well done! Many thanks from the Caribbean 🌴

@frankierodriguez8661 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Alexander for another fantastic yet extremely sad work about another jazz giant. These incredible musicians had to endure such terrible lives that it's hard to believe. I don't know, for many the fact that they lived those tortured ways is one big factor which influenced their extraordinary music, but I'm not quite sure. Miles was able to leave bad things behind and yet he was one of the most important musicians of the XX Century. Who knows?... Thanks a million anyway and keep on this great work.

@Kezleu 2 ай бұрын

good evening in the 89s Francis Poudras gave a conference on jazz musicians, it was moving and liberating.

@aldenclapper2428 2 ай бұрын

Your research and oration are amazing but damn this is heartbreaking.

@gregg53jones 2 ай бұрын

I am very glad to have found this channel. Thanks!

@rodinkumar3628 2 ай бұрын

Very well said . Tq .

@badsign49 2 ай бұрын

Genbius. Both of you. Thank you so much.

@kevinsplinter8595 2 ай бұрын

Cool. Thanks for sharing

@castronaut2000 2 ай бұрын

great video

@giampierogirolamo7134 2 ай бұрын

Fantastico ❤

@deathisaprimitiveconcept 2 ай бұрын

Great video, thanks for this. Bud is endlessly listenable for me, i hear his voice even in his final ‘bad’ recordings… Bud was always himself, he never posed, never played ‘cute’… i’ll take a ‘bad’ Bud album over a ‘good’ album by lesser artists of his era any day.

@splorn 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video Beautiful and horrible at the same time

@mxmllrguitar 2 ай бұрын

Keep going with the videos!

@onetrackjazz 2 ай бұрын

thank, will do my friend

@Hitsko 2 ай бұрын

Its really good! but please make it a bit more personal. I haate the AI voice..

@clydebermingham121 2 ай бұрын

🙏🏽😓🙏🏽

@thelantern9075 2 ай бұрын

41?! Damn. Died too young, amazing player with a unque feel.

@mxmllrguitar 2 ай бұрын

Can you do a video about the life of Fats Navarro?

@onetrackjazz 2 ай бұрын

good idea, stay tuned my friend

@paulgibby6932 2 ай бұрын

Narrator's voice. Primo

@VALINOR24 2 ай бұрын

The man was traumatized.

@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743 2 ай бұрын

What's with the Bill Evans -esque piano playing in the background? Use Powells music ...

@onetrackjazz 2 ай бұрын

sorry, no can do, copyrighted

@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743 2 ай бұрын

understood....@@onetrackjazz

@Freakeasy_chicago 2 ай бұрын

what is this track, so beautiful

@onetrackjazz 2 ай бұрын

I did a video on some of my most used background music, since I get asked that question so often kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4rHmIufj7mgZs0

@paxwallace8324 2 ай бұрын

The whole society was arrayed against these great creative souls. These guys like Dexter, Clifford, Monk, Bud, it's an endless list were music professors who could actually play. Like for real. These cats internalized so very much music theory especially applications for chromatically altered harmony and their implications and any and all modulation it should make your head spin.

@marksteele9928 2 ай бұрын

He let the demons in? He was wandering by a railroad and was severely beaten? Wandering alone is normal for an artist. Ya need a little solitude. I don’t think he let the demons in, they were thrust upon him.

@allyourparties 2 ай бұрын

cops have destroyed so many artists.

@jameswebb4593 2 ай бұрын

A great fan of Bud , had a box set of his early recordings . This is a personnel thought , this pod would be better if the background music was Buds and not meaningless meanderings on a keyboard.

@onetrackjazz 2 ай бұрын

sorry his music is only allowed to be used with the permission of his estate, all music is under copyright protection

@jameswebb4593 2 ай бұрын

@@onetrackjazz Thanks appreciate the reply . Does this also apply to Buds compositions ?

@warrendoris9669 2 ай бұрын

My favorite piano player. Pain and beauty sometimes go hand in hand. This racist country has a lot to pay fir.

@cassiusrichmond6336 2 ай бұрын

Jackie McLean told me that Bud's situation made a turn for the worst when he was hospitalized. He found a piano in the hospital. Jackie said that when the staff found out he could play piano they started applying electrical shock treatments to him. On the left side then the right side of his head. They were trying to determine how this would affect his playing.

@michaelwilcox5168 2 ай бұрын

Thelonious had a severe mental health issue too.

@kenmunozatmmrrailroad6853 2 ай бұрын

Crimes of this country against its black citizens overwhelm with grief.

@rodluther982 2 ай бұрын

Nice commentary on one of my favorite musicians. However, I think at least some of Powell’s mental problems stemmed from head trauma from beatings by the race soldiers of the NYPD. Elmo Hope, Monk, and Phineas Newborn, Jr were all recipients of similar treatment by the cops. Phineas was never the same after that. Just look at footage of his later concerts. What it comes down to is that cops and other authority figures cannot accept talented Black people and these musicians were super talented and influential.