Randy Weston

African jazz

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 9/1/2003

The modern jazz piano tradition has a number of strands. Most common is the lineage of Bud Powell, who so spectacularly adopted the fleet language of bebop to the keyboard. Others, such as Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols, followed different paths, combining the rhythmic and harmonic developments of the late 1940s with older influences, taking their cues

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