DescriptionThis is an essay about the Francis Paudras Collection on Bud Powell written by Peter Pullman, a jazz scholar and author of Wail: The Life of Bud Powell (Brooklyn: Bop Changes, 2012).
Date Created2022
Subject(s)Jazz musicians, Jazz, Bop (Music), Powell, Bud, Paudras, Francis
DescriptionSister Rosetta Tharpe sings and plays guitar on This Little Light of Mine at the Antibes Jazz Festival in 1960. At 3:28, Ray Charles and the Raelettes perform "I'm Goin' Back to Jesus" and "I...
DescriptionTrombonist Wilbur De Paris's band performs "Sensation Rag '' and "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" at the Antibes Jazz Festival in 1960. The same band also performs "Joshua Fit the Battle...
DescriptionBud Powell (piano), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (bass), and Jørn Elniff (drums) perform "Anthropology" and "Round Midnight" at Cafe Montmartre in Copenhagen in 1962. This is not a live television...
DescriptionBud Powell (solo piano) at the Antibes Jazz Festival in 1960 plays Swing Napoli. Then the Les McCann trio plays "Jeepers Creepers." At 7:00, there is a short excerpt by Ray Charles. From 7:30 to...
DescriptionBud Powell as a special guest with Charles Mingus performs "I'll Remember April" at the Antibes Jazz Festival on July 13, 1960. The performers include Charlie Mingus (bass), Bud Powell (piano), Eric...
DescriptionThe first forty-five seconds of this audio are blank. Then there are two incomplete clips of a television soundtrack. The first is "I'll Remember April" at the Antibes Jazz Festival on July 13, 1960....
DescriptionThis audio is from a 1960 television broadcast. Bud Powell plays "John's Abbey.” The host (Sim Copans) introduces Lucky Thompson (2:45). Thompson (soprano saxophone), pianist Alice McLeod (later...
DescriptionBud Powell (piano), Jimmy Gourley (guitar), Kenny Clarke (drums), and Pierre Michelot (bass) perform "Anthropology" at the Blue Note. The audio clip ends abruptly after Powell's solo, in the middle of...
