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Review | The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop by Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. & Wail: The Life of Bud Powell by Peter Pullman.

Submitted by Steve Beck on March 1, 2015 - 12:04am

The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop. By Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. Berkley: University of California Press, 2013. [ix, 254 p. ISBN 978-0-520-24391-0. Hardcover: $34.95].

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