I have forgotten how swinging some of Bud Powell's original compositions can be! This classical-sounding piece inventively swings while showing the capacity of the piano to improvise flawlessly in the bebop idiom. This is hardly the first time Powell alluded to the Western classical tradition in his music, as tunes like "Bud on Bach" indicate, but this is one of my favorites of his canon, especially when one considers the decline of his later years.
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