Dance of the Infidels
A Portrait of Bud Powell
Paudras, Francis
Money, Rubye (TRN)
Bernhardt, Warren (EDT)
Monet, Rubye (TRN)
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"What Charlie Parker was to the saxophone, Bud Powell (19241966) was to the piano: No jazz pianist can rival his brilliance. But his life was filled with tragedy, including years of electroshock thera"
BOOK SYNOPSIS
What Charlie Parker was to the saxophone, Bud Powell (19241966) was to the piano: No jazz pianist can rival his brilliance. But his life was filled with tragedy, including years of electroshock therapy in psychiatric institutions, illnesses, physical and mental abuse from people who fed him dangerous drugs to control him, and the indifference of his contemporaries to his genius. Francis Paudras, a young jazz fan who met Powell in the late 1950s, released him from his unfavorable surroundings, encouraged him to create some of his finest music, and took care of him as if he were his child. Powells story, Dance of the Infidels, is one of the most moving of jazz memoirsand served as the basis for Bertrand Taverniers film Round Midnight, starring Dexter Gordon. Here, for the first time in English, is a portrait of a friendship as surprising and heartbreaking as Bud Powells timeless music.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0306808161
ISBN(13-digit): 9780306808166
Copyright: 1998
Dewey Decimal: 786.2/165/092
Library of Congress: 97051909
Book Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 353
Paper Weight (lb): 1.6
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