Celebrating the brilliance of Bud Powell on his birthday. Along with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke and Dizzy Gillespie, Powell was a leading figure in the development of modern jazz. His virtuosity led many to call him the Charlie Parker of the piano, and Charlie Parker called him "a genius." "No one could play like Bud; too difficult, too quick, incredible!" - Thelonious Monk Bud was trained in classical music as a child and his classical background played a role in the harmonic

Remembering the great Bud Powell who was born on this day in 1924. Known as a leading figure in the development of modern jazz, Powell was credited for greatly extending the range of jazz harmony. He was among those who did away with most accepted functions of the left hand. His left hand simply played brief, often syncopated, jabs of two- or three-note chords supporting long, single lines by the right hand. This technique became the accepted approach for modern jazz of the next 20 years. In his

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