Get Happy Powell Bud 1959

[WW214412]

jes

[dseabrook2]

this is sick. maybe I'll find a different instrument to play and give up piano, lol. amazing.

[drchoclate]

pure talent. he's not even looking at the keyboard and playing at that speed!? wow. one of a kind.

[DajaWaja]

Please somebody kill me and make me play like him

[Helslinky]

KLOOK

[jazzuffe]

This is so overdevil great (swed-grammar)-

[WW214412]

i love speed jazz !!!!!!!!!!

[Andromelian]

@WW214412 I think you mean Bebop.

[shire2005]

Note that this gig was long after what the experts would say was Bud's peak years. Tells you how incredible he was to play like that after all he went through.

[sukkot54]

@shire2005 that's just how good Bud was, that even after his deterioration he so much soul, swing, and musical ideas.

[buffalobilly]

great footage, not enough powell on film

[DrVonNostrand]

dave gibble 

[Globaljazzer500]

Am just getting into Bud ...I have his Ornithology as my ring tone? ... I love this too !..such an incessant groover ...no mercy!1

[GMD825]

Just awesome...!

[Longlakedreaming]

Bud had his head cracked open and his skull split by a cop's nightstick when Bud stepped in trying to protect Monk from the cop around 1947. Bud's head trauma left him with years of nasty headaches and lead to his being in and out of psychiatric institutions and multiple shock treatments for ten years. It also lead him to an alcohol problem which turned out to be a double problem in that he would nget drunk after only a couple of glasses of wine.

[aaronamccoy]

this is after they shocked him but he still can play genius

[buffalobilly]

piano junkie, man he could play

[inayabhaimerej]

Fucking talent! So epic... in lest than 3 minutes.

[baumgbr]

hahaha, yep, doing a little studying.

[DajaWaja]

Epic theme

[SexyGuy1211]

Me too!

Signed Greg Pettus.

[jww335]

ha im listening to this for a test as well

[zndprophet]

thanks for uploading...i have a listening part of my exam in jazz, and this is one of the songs I needed

nice song too