NPR Jazz: After A Painful Year, Bud Powell's Triumpant 1953 Return

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After A Painful Year, Bud Powell's Triumpant 1953 Return Posted: 24 Mar 2014 10:31 AM PDT   The great bebop pianist played several engagements at the New York jazz club Birdland in 1953. Parts of his shows were broadcast on the radio, and one listener recorded some onto acetate discs. A new collection of those recordings is out now: Birdland 1953 on three CDs from . The sound quality isn't much, but the music is terrific. The players with whom he worked there include bassists and and drummer . On Feb. 5, 1953, Powell was uncommunicative face to face at the New York jazz club Birdland. But when he sat at the keys, it was a whole other story. Read more...