Photograph signed

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POWELL, Earl “Bud” (1924-1966).

Vintage black and white publicity portrait, 1950s, signed and inscribed by Bud Powell. Inscribed in ink to New Jersey doctor and jazz fanatic Dr. Reuben Troxell ‘To Dr. T, From Bud Powell’. The recipient was a New Jersey doctor and jazz fanatic who frequented New York and Philadelphia jazz clubs, amassing an impressive collection of personally inscribed photographs of his favourite artists, which he then hung on the walls of his Burlington, NJ, consulting rooms.

Powell's short and troubled life was marred with mental and physical illness, and the impact of the death of his pianist brother in a car accident, which also claimed the life of brilliant young trumpeter Clifford Brown. Although his considerable musical gifts were progressively diminished by the effects of schizophrenia and tuberculosis, he is celebrated as one of the great jazz pianists. 'Powell influenced virtually every pianist who followed him...'', states Garry Giddins. 'No other pianist, and precious few musicians in any age, speak to us with such electrifying urgency... he was our Schubert and Liszt rolled into one.' Powell died in New York at the age of 41 in 1966. Giddins, 234.

Vintage gelatin silver print, 254 x 206 mm; accompanied by a facsimile letter of provenance and a certificate of authenticity from Roger Epperson.

[With:] a concert programme for the 1957 annual Birdland tour Birdland Stars of ’57, signed at their portraits in pencil by Bud Powell and Count Basie, 305 x 229 mm.

[And:] a part-printed document signed in blue ink ‘Earl “Bud” Powell’, a 1947 Revised Uniform Popular Songwriters Contract, dated 26 July 1949, between music publisher J.J. Robbins & Sons, Inc. and Bud Powell, assigning the publishing rights to Powell’s unpublished original musical composition Strictly Confidential in exchange for fixed royalties. Two leaves galley folio, printed both sides with typed additions, 413 x 216 mm. Provenance: RR Auctions, Boston, 18 July 2012, lot 712.
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