You couldn't have anything that you could call remotely modern jazz piano without Bud Powell setting that template.

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Hanging above was a framed photo of pioneering bebop pianist Bud Powell.

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McCoy Tyner was born on Dec. 11, 1938, and grew up in a Philadelphia neighborhood with Richie Powell and Bud Powell as neighbors.

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Legend has it that Gillespie, one of the architects of the bebop revolution with Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, was already playing oddly dissonant solos when he was with Cab Calloway's band in 1939.

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Bud Powell and a crowd of us.

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The leaders involved included Bud Powell, J.

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"By 14, I had fallen under Bud's spell, " he said, glancing at Powell's image.

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