Bud Powell - Cherokee

[briguyhackins]

Who can play piano this well today? This guy has chops to burn! Back to the woodshed.

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@briguyhackins

Check out Eldar Djangirov, especially his Straight No Chaser take with Roy Hargrove at the Blue Note.

He's pretty ridiculous

[AmundLauritzen]

Some serious bebop vocabulary going on. You can never go wrong with Bud!

[jadamink]

131st liker :) That's right! Can't resist old BUDDY here! 

[dondorward2010]

awesome musicians

[buffalobilly]

more talent in this piece than the entire Michael Jackson discography

[ricocape]

@buffalobilly I love Jazz.. but don't touch MJ..

[Matrobben]

@buffalobilly Apples and oranges. Bud Powell is Jazz, MJ Pop. They're two entirely different languages and aim for different things, so there's no use comparing them. Besides, talent is not objectively quantifiable, and music is music. It's not a contest. Enjoy it.

[TheGroovestock]

@buffalobilly what a stupid comment, obviously you are a jazz snob...

Horowitz loved Tatum, Hancock loves hip-hop, Miles loved Cindy Lauper......

be careful of what ideas you get...On the same mentality I can Say Rachmaninoff has much more talent than Bud Powell in his entire career....

Music is music, and every artist (the true ones..)insides on a part of the life of people

[buffalobilly]

@TheGroovestock I'm not a jazz snob, actually agree with your comment but i just never get the Michael Jackson hype. Maybe I should've said Justin Bieber instead of MJ. Would my my comment be OK then?

[TheGroovestock]

@buffalobilly Hehehe, You can freely say what you want/think...It's not about being just OK.

You said MJ not Justin Bieber (I haven' t heard his music...but the mediatic stuff i see, sucks...)

I guess it happened that way too with MJ on his days..and that's why you don't like him. But MJ had real talent since he was recognized for the Motown people, the James Brown, the Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis and so...

I'm better now that i know you are not a jazz snob.(usually they say this kind of things)

[polymath7]

@TheGroovestock "Miles loved Cindy Lauper......"

Yeah, he also thought Prince was a genius. It would be pretty difficult to deny that Miles was a genius himself, but his assessment of other (non)musicians is often apalling.

[benjazz333]

fucking genius

[benjazz333]

crazy motifs

[Pelijah]

Truly inspiring...he's not just playing fast. He's making sense and he's making melodies (and swinging,of course). My second favorite version of this piece is by pianist Phineas Newborn (search "Phineas Newborn Cherokee"

[001Tara1]

How many fingers does that dude have, anyway?! Wow~!

[wseaqyght34217]

excellent...art. bud is amazing....

[NeilCasual]

Aouch.

[Pugophile]

Doesn't drop a stitch, does he? What a man! And what legends were Brown and Roach, too!

[EMCEMITCH]

one night many years ago at mintons in harlem bud walked in and who was there ? THELONIUS MONK, ART TATUM, EARL HINES, AND GUESS WHAT/ a little jam session that always happened there and the winner that night---the cat that blew em all away, by light years was u guesed it =the great BUD POWELL

[Andreeeiiii]

@EMCEMITCH

really? not tatum?

i know a story, that tatum challanged him, he could play everything with his left, note for note. bud didnt appear

[roquefort88888]

@Andreeeiiii

"i know a story, that tatum challanged him, he could play everything with his left, note for note. bud didnt appear"

I'm not surprised. If the story is true, he was probably disgusted that a fellow pianist was treating the art like some sort of cheap circus performance.

[radiokid2]

@roquefort88888 I heard the same story...except that Bud did appear and played the first set with only his left hand!

Here's another bop version

youtube.com/watch?v=SpXssOw8Pq­0

[captainshiner3]

@roquefort88888

You sound stuck up. And boring.

[roquefort88888]

@captainshiner3

LOL - And you sound judgemental and defensive - ain't it a bitch?

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Seriously though - anything Tatum could play, I could get my computer to play, five times the speed, in parallel 5ths. But WTF would that mean? Speed of reproduction has nothing to do with the invention that makes music vital and human. That's my point.

[nicodagger]

@roquefort88888 YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!! Just tonight I was ont he bus and these college guys, all musicians, were sitting across from me, and one guy, a trumpet player, went on and on about "the greatest trumpet player in the world", a Russian, because the guy could double-tongue octaves really fast and play really screaming high, and I thought "well who the fuck cares???? Does this motherfucker have anything to SAY"???? So thank you for making this important point !!!!!!!!!!!

[roquefort88888]

@nicodagger

Heh... does he have anything to say?

Mofo's double-tonguing parallel ninths three times a second and you want him to talk at the same time... ; )

[nicodagger]

@roquefort88888 I'd rather he play fewer notes and say more....Miles Davis expressed more musical richness in five notes than most trumpet players could express in a thousand double-tongued gliassandos...or whatever the fuck they think is impressive...

[roquefort88888]

@nicodagger

Precisely.

Like Miles said of Rodrigo - it's "concentrated melody" - the more you do to it, the less it becomes.

[nicodagger]

@roquefort88888 And that's real genius: the ability to pack a ton of musical "nutrition", if you will, into small spaces...one person might play 100 notes, the other 10, but if they are the right ten notes....that's all that matters.

[ricocc]

amazing!

[residentginger]

Better than mclaughlin's version, I'm going to say bud as I'm a pianist but both are insane maybe one day :p

[boobtuber06]

Did Bud Powell by any chance possess perfect pitch?

[BachBachBachBachBach]

@boobtuber06 I once read a biographical article that claimed he was sight reading Chopin etudes at the age of 9. So I'm going to go head and say yes to the perfect pitch.

[kingxofxsuede]

Virtuoistic (sp) traits =/= perfect pitch.

[HippieDrummer06]

Check out the Tal Farlow version!!! It's so fucking fast!!!

[DajaWaja]

dios mio que locura, powell, descansa un poco las manos, vas a quemar las teclas...!!!!

<3

[qays1991]

one question, how do you do that with a piano?

[dongcheeman]

Genius background.

[aaronamccoy]

theres this version with bud and bird, live, a paris release, oh man, both cats are tearing the chasis of cherokee

[nitekatt2007]

WOW! Bud at his prime, burnin' on Cherokee. Modern jazz piano started with the Amazing Bud Powell.

And yes, the word genius can be given to Bud, he definitely deserves the title.

katt

[elgordo420]

@nitekatt2007 I would even go one farther: Bud Powell is a piano god

[BRazor78]

Yes! this is video made it back on youtube! Now my life can continue...

[itsbenagain]

this is great

[LAlawMedMBA]

To reminisce about "Cherokee" is to imagine Native Americans basking at a campfire.

[Whatisthescore]

lol at the constantly moving backround.

[DajaWaja]

ahhahahh yeah man, this is craziness!!!!

[BRazor78]

This version enlightens me as much as Art Tatum's version. I get shivers listening to this.

[polymath7]

@BRazor78 Agreed. I almost always listen to them back-to-back.

[0lfo]

bud powell....

[drodrodro22]

wow.....he never stops inspiring me....bud has been a hero to me since i first listened to music.....

[samwise1807]

bud  Powell is a true motherfucker on piano.

[donotclickonthis]

Just as miles would say.

[BlkLion0726]

@samwise1807 fuck yes!

[kevinherbert]

@samwise1807 : and that's.....cubed