For the song from Coco, see Coco (soundtrack) . For the Bobby Hutcherson album, see Un Poco Loco (album) .
1951 single by Bud Powell
"Un Poco Loco " is an Afro-Cuban jazz standard composed by American jazz pianist Bud Powell . It was first recorded for Blue Note Records by Powell, Curly Russell , and Max Roach on May 1, 1951.
Musical characteristics
"Un Poco Loco" is in thirty-two bar form . It uses the lydian scale, incorporating chords overlapping chords to imply a polytonality (D major 7 over C major 7: CEGBDF#AC#) with the improvisation based on an alternating polytonality and an altered dominant chord. Particularly remarkable to jazz musicians is the placement of C# against a C major 7 chord; James Weidman attributed this to bitonality, while Tardo Hammer attributed it to an extension of the circle of fifths .
Legacy
In the late 1980s, literary and cultural critic Harold Bloom included "Un Poco Loco" in his list of the most "sublime" works of twentieth-century American art (from his introduction to Modern Critical Interpretations: Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow ).
References
Yanow, Scott (2000). Afro-Cuban Jazz 188 . ISBN 978-0-87930-619-9
Priestley, Brian (1991). Jazz On Record: A History 99 . ISBN 978-0-8230-7562-1
Groves, Alan (2001). The Glass Enclosure: The Life Of Bud Powell 124 . ISBN 978-0-8264-4746-3
^ McCalla, James (1994). Jazz, A Listener's Guide 116 , 123, 125, 194. ISBN 978-0-13-097940-7
Kastin, David (2011). Nica's Dream 172 , 173. ISBN 978-0-393-06940-2
Bud Powell Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. Because Powell's discography features albums with the same title, record labels are identified to avoid any confusion. As leader
Bud Powell Trio Jazz Giant Piano Solos /Piano Solos, No.2 (1949–50)The Amazing Bud Powell The Genius of Bud Powell Bud Powell's Moods (Mercury/Verve, 1950–51)Inner Fires The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2 Bud Powell's Moods Jazz Original Bud Powell '57 (1954–55)The Lonely One... Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell Blues in the Closet Strictly Powell Bud! Swingin' with Bud Bud Plays Bird Time Waits The Scene Changes Bud in Paris The Essen Jazz Festival Concert A Portrait of Thelonious A Tribute to Cannonball Don Byas , 1961)'Round About Midnight at the Blue Note At the Golden Circle Bouncing with Bud Americans in Europe Bud Powell in Paris Relaxin' at Home, 61–64 Eternity The Invisible Cage Holidays in Edenville, 64 The Return of Bud Powell Award at Birdland, 64 Ups 'n Downs c. 1965) With others
Cootie Williams and His Orchestra 1941–1944 Cootie Williams , Classics , 1944)New York Journeyman – Complete Recordings Frank Socolow , 1945)Dexter Rides Again Dexter Gordon , 1946)J. J. Johnson's Jazz Quintets Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson One Night in Birdland Jazz at Massey Hall Dizzy Gillespie , Charlie Parker , Mingus, Max Roach , 1953)Mingus at Antibes Charles Mingus , 1960)Paris Jam Session Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers , 1959)Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris Our Man in Paris Compilations
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