Wail: The Life of Bud Powell, and The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop

Authors

  • Pierre-Emmanuel Seguin Independent Researcher

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.v9i1.28288

Keywords:

Bud Powell, jazz piano

Abstract

Book reviews of: Peter Pullman, Wail: The Life of Bud Powell. New York: Peter Pullman, LCC, 2012. 488 pp. ISBN 978-0-9851418-1-3 (pbk). $19.99. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr, The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-24391-0 (hbk). £24.95/$34.95.

References

Groves, Alan, and Alyn Shipton (1993) The Glass Enclosure: The Life of Bud Powell. Oxford: Bayou Press.

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Published

2015-10-21

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Reviews

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How to Cite

Seguin, P.-E. (2015). Wail: The Life of Bud Powell, and The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop. Jazz Research Journal, 9(1), 93-98. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.v9i1.28288