Un Poco Loco
Appearance
"Un Poco Loco" | ||||
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Single by Bud Powell | ||||
from the album The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume One | ||||
B-side | "It Could Happen to You" | |||
Released | 1951 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 4:42 | |||
Label | Blue Note | |||
Songwriter(s) | Bud Powell | |||
Producer(s) | Alfred Lion | |||
Bud Powell singles chronology | ||||
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"Un Poco Loco" is an Afro-Cuban jazz standard composed by American jazz pianist Bud Powell.[1][2] It was first recorded for Blue Note Records by Powell, Curly Russell, and Max Roach on May 1, 1951.[3][4]
Musical characteristics
"Un Poco Loco" is in thirty-two bar form.[4] On the original recording, improvisation was based on a single scale instead of a chord sequence.[2]
Legacy
In the late 1980s, the renowned 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).[5]
References
- ^ Yanow, Scott (2000). Afro-Cuban Jazz. San Francisco, C.A.: Miller Freeman Books. p. 188. ISBN 087930619X. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ a b Priestley, Brian (1991). Jazz On Record: A History. New York: Billboard Books. p. 99. ISBN 0823075621. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ Groves, Alan (2001). The Glass Enclosure: The Life Of Bud Powell (Reprinted. ed.). New York: Continuum. p. 124. ISBN 0826447465. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ a b McCalla, James (1994). Jazz, A Listener's Guide. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. pp. 116, 123, 125, 194. ISBN 0130979406. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ Kastin, David (2011). Nica's Dream (1st ed.). W. W. Norton. pp. 172, 173. ISBN 9780393069402. Retrieved 13 April 2019.