Jazz Pianist Bud Powell: He was never the same after his stint in the military
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- Опубликовано: 24 фев 2024
- Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American jazz pianist and composer. A pioneer in the development of bebop and its associated contributions to jazz history.
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sounds like he was the victim of police brutality, not 'demons'
'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.
Police- demons… same thing
Police violence and electrical treatments.. Such a tragic unfairness tells us how much jazz was a fight, a real war with notes, fealings and thoughts
And despite it all, this Master is buried in an unmarked grave. I live down the road from Bud's Mother's old house in Willow Grove, PA. I smile thinking that Bud once walked the same streets that I've done since I was a kid.
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.
@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.
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.
Music is deep.
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.
@@beltigussin81vov Marley give me a break
I believe he was a savant. Pure genius. The shit those poor guys had to endure.
Look up what a savant is. He was a Genius, but he did not have savant syndrom.
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.
This just hurts to watch but history is what it is. So many Jazz greats suffer this fate
Wow I studied his playing in 70s now I can relate to the poor guys storey that I’m older
Very well done.
Such a heartbreaking story. Such beauty produced and still with us from within that painful life.
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.
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"
Thanks. Informative and well-narrated.
Hey Alexander - I appreciated your no nonsense style and mellow baritone voice - Long Live Bud - RIP 🙏
That wasn’t Alexander’s voice! (Unless, of course, “Alexander” is the name of that particular AI-generated “mellow baritone” voice, lol.)
I am very glad to have found this channel. Thanks!
Wow !! This is so much that I never knew before. Thank you very much
Genbius. Both of you. Thank you so much.
Very well done! Many thanks from the Caribbean 🌴
Fantastico ❤
Cool.
Thanks for sharing
I've always adored his playing but I didn't know this heartbreaking side to his life. 😢
Such a talent, such a sad tale.
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.
great video
Very well said . Tq .
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.
Your research and oration are amazing but damn this is heartbreaking.
good evening in the 89s Francis Poudras gave a conference on jazz musicians, it was moving and liberating.
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.
The man was traumatized.
Correction, Bud passed away on July 31, 1966, not on July 1st 1966.
Can you do a video about the life of Fats Navarro?
good idea, stay tuned my friend
bless him
Keep going with the videos!
thank, will do my friend
Its really good! but please make it a bit more personal. I haate the AI voice..
Thanks for this video
Beautiful and horrible at the same time
41?! Damn. Died too young, amazing player with a unque feel.
🙏🏽😓🙏🏽
My favorite piano player. Pain and beauty sometimes go hand in hand. This racist country has a lot to pay fir.
Narrator's voice. Primo
cops have destroyed so many artists.
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.
what is this track, so beautiful
I did a video on some of my most used background music, since I get asked that question so often ruclips.net/video/yYdgXiZTm0k/видео.html
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.
Thelonious had a severe mental health issue too.
What's with the Bill Evans -esque piano playing in the background? Use Powells music ...
sorry, no can do, copyrighted
understood....@@onetrackjazz
Dope is for dope's.
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.
sorry his music is only allowed to be used with the permission of his estate, all music is under copyright protection
@@onetrackjazz Thanks appreciate the reply . Does this also apply to Buds compositions ?
Crimes of this country against its black citizens overwhelm with grief.
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.
Was broad st station where the white folks were? Serious question. Did he just wonder to a non black part of Philly ?
not sure, that was many many years back
Bud was a very weak man . Monk was the king in my book !
Dumb comment. You have no ear for music.
how was he "weak" ?
There is an excerpt from Peter Pullman’s book, where Monk was backstage watching Bud perform somewhere in Europe in the late 50’s early 60s I think, and Monk was crying. Not from jealousy, but most likely because he knew Bud when he was only a teenager, and admired him as much as Bud admired Monk.
Both were masters of the piano, but in drastically different ways. Legends! And PS, you try getting your head cracked in, before then being given ammonia showers, to eventually receiving tons of electroshock treatments in an institution. And STILL get let out on day passes to make landmark recordings (which is also in Pullman’s book).
Weak!!!? 🙄