Dance Of The Infidels: A Portrait Of Bud Powell

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What Charlie Parker used to be to the saxophone, Bud Powell (1924–1966) used to be to the piano: No jazz pianist can rival his brilliance. But his life used to be stuffed with tragedy, including years of electroshock therapy in psychiatric institutions, illnesses, physical and mental abuse from individuals who fed him dangerous drugs to keep an eye on him, and the indifference of his contemporaries to his genius. Francis Paudras, a young jazz fan who met Powell within the late 1950s, released him from his unfavorable surroundings, encouraged him to create a few of his finest music, and took care of him as if he were his child. Powell’s story, Dance of the Infidels, is likely one of the most moving of jazz memoirs—and served as the root for Bertrand Tavernier’s film ‘Round Nighttime, starring Dexter Gordon. Here, for the primary time in English, is a portrait of a friendship as surprising and heartbreaking as Bud Powell’s timeless music.
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