Amazing Bud Powell

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the prize-winning Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (UC Press).

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Cullud Boys with Beards": Serious Black Music and the Art of Bebop 2. Something Else: The Tests and Triumphs of a Modernist 3. Notes and Tones: Black Genius in the Social Order 4. Making the Changes: Jazz Manhood, Bebop Virtuosity, and a New Social Contract 5. Exploding Narratives and Structures in the Art of Bud Powell Coda: Cultural Validation and Requiem for a Heavyweight Notes Selected Bibliography Credits Index

"Ramsey writes with a musician's ear... Full of beauty and that edgy logic." -- John Mole The Times Literary Supplement "An important, thoughtful work for those wishing to probe beyond cliches." DownBeat "Equal parts biography, historiography, and music analysis, Ramsey's brilliant study represents a much-needed examination of one of jazz's most influential pianists and artists." Notes