Remembering Bud Powell on his birthday. (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966). Along with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, 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. He was one of the most underrated because he spent over a third of his life in mental and medical hospitals. He was beaten by the police when he was twenty and he never fully recovered from that beating and as a result, he

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