Bud Powell Gets Happy in Paris

[Jim Cohen]

"Get Happy" performed by Bud Powell, piano; Kenny Clark, drums; and Pierre Michelot, bass. Recorded in the Blue Note in Paris in 1959.

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Astonishingly, at the time of this recording Powell was in declining health as the result of a vicious attack at the hands of a policeman. Powell had been struck in the head with a club when he attempted to intervene in a dispute between the police and Thelonious Monk backstage at a club in New York City.

[Russ Wever]

That coulda been
'Police Brutality'.
~Russ

[Tony Glassman]

These guys must have worked w/ each other quite a bit while living in France. I have a Blue Note album with: Bud Powell, Klook and Michelot backing Dexter Gordon (Our Man in Paris).

Great stuff including an a killer version of "Scrapple From the Apple".