Pianist Bud Powell not only helped invent bebop piano in the mid-1940s but also established a new, spidery playing style that influenced a generation of players on both coasts right up until Bill Evans' cooler introspection in the late 1950s. In the first 10 years of his small-group career, from 1946 to 1956, Powell overshadowed his younger brother, Ric…
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