DescriptionThis audio contains a brief story, possibly told by Dexter Gordon, overlapping with Bud Powell's piano, playing his composition “Oblivion." The audio appears to be from a documentary soundtrack. At...
Date Created1950-1994
Subject(s)African American jazz musicians, Powell, Bud
DescriptionBud Powell as a special guest with Charles Mingus performs "I'll Remember April" at the 1st Festival Jazz d'Antibes, Juan-le-Pins, France. July 13, 1960. The performers include Charlie Mingus (bass),...
DescriptionThis audio is from a 1960 television broadcast. Bud Powell plays "John's Abbey.” The host (Sim Copans) introduces Lucky Thompson (2:45). Thompson (soprano saxophone), pianist Alice McLeod (later...
DescriptionSister Rosetta Tharpe sings and plays guitar on This Little Light of Mine at the Antibes Jazz Festival in 1960. At 3:28, Ray Charles and the Raelettes perform "I'm Goin' Back to Jesus" and "I...
DescriptionTrombonist Wilbur De Paris's band performs "Sensation Rag '' and "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" at the Antibes Jazz Festival in 1960. The same band also performs "Joshua Fit the Battle...
DescriptionThis is an essay about the Francis Paudras Collection on Bud Powell written by Peter Pullman, a jazz scholar and author of Wail: The Life of Bud Powell (Brooklyn: Bop Changes, 2012).
Date Created2022
Subject(s)Jazz musicians, Jazz, Bop (Music), Powell, Bud, Paudras, Francis
DescriptionThis is an audio from a television broadcast at the Blue Note in 1960. Bud Powell with Pierre Michelot (bass) and Kenny Clarke (drums) plays "Get Happy.” Then Lucky Thompson (tenor saxophone),...
DescriptionThe beginning of the audio has poor sound quality and is a performance by tenor sax, electronic piano, bass, and drums. The performance might be the group from the Jazzmobile led by Bill Taylor at Bud...
DescriptionBud Powell (piano), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (bass), and Jørn Elniff (drums) perform "Anthropology" and "Round Midnight" at Cafe Montmartre in Copenhagen in 1962. This is not a live television...
DescriptionThis is audio from the television broadcast of the Antibes Jazz Festival in 1960. Bud Powell plays "Sweet and Lovely" on solo piano. Wilbur De Paris (trombone) and Claude Luter (clarinet) with the...
