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KSDS Presents: A Bud Powell Centennial Celebration

Blog Name:Home Page News

Blog Author:San Diego's Jazz 88.3

Posted on:September 4, 2024

Don't miss modern masters interpreting Bud Powell's masterworks for solo piano, trio, and quintet. La Jolla Music Society's Baker Baum Concert Hall. Fri., Sept. 27 at 7 p.m.

On Friday evening, September 27, 2024, KSDS will celebrate the Bud Powell Centennial — Bud’s 100th birthday — in a manner befitting the only man who can rightly be called the principal architect of modern jazz piano conception. Though Powell himself won’t be playing — he’s been dead 58 years, which is just another way of saying he was already booked — we’ve arranged the next best thing, an evening of unforgettable musical testimony to Powell’s enduring artistic influence starring three modern masters of the piano: Joshua White, Alan Broadbent, and Bill Mays

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