The amazing Bud Powell : Black genius, jazz history, and the challenge of bebop /
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.
- Berkeley : Chicago : University of California Press ; Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, 2013.
- xi, 240 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.
- Music of the African diaspora ; 17 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Little cullud boys with beards : serious Black music and the art of bebop -- Something else : the tests and triumphs of a modernist -- Notes and tones : Black genius in the social order -- Making the changes : jazz manhood, bebop virtuosity, and a new social contract -- Exploding narratives and structures in the art of Bud Powell -- Coda : cultural accreditation and requiem for a heavyweight.