Bud Powell: Collard Greens And Black Eyed Peas

Bud Powell has been acclaimed as the father of modern jazz piano for adapting Charlie Parkers bebop innovations to his own instrument. On this medium up-tempo Oscar Pettiford blues (also known as Blues in the Closet), his improvisation, with its agile scalar passages, occasional harmonic dissonance, and inventive, Parker-like phrases, illustrates why Powell was the model for generations of jazz pianists.