Richie Powell
piano
Richie Powell was a pianist, Bud Powell’s younger brother, who played in the Clifford Brown and Max Roach quintet; Barry calls him a very good friend, and after his death in a 1956 car crash Barry joined Max Roach’s band.
- mentions
- 4
- recordings
- 4
- Barry speaking
- 3
What Barry says
Barry calls Richie Powell and Clifford Brown very good friends of his. Their deaths in a car crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike are why he joined Max Roach.
Detroit Jazz: Ancient to the Future33:03Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶149
Barry identifies Richie as the band’s pianist who had been killed with Clifford Brown. In his telling, he and Donald Byrd then joined Max Roach, and Sonny Rollins came in too.
Interview on Italian television5:39Ep.3 | Everything no one has ever told you about jazz | Barry Harris1:402:14
Barry uses the crash to date his own first move to New York, though he was unsure whether it was 1955 or 1956.
Barry Harris on WKCR-FM ¶289Barry Harris, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program ¶151
In his own words
after Clifford Brown and Richie Powell who were very good friends of mine they got killed in an auto accident on the Pennsylvania [Turnpike]
I joined Max after Clifford Brown and Richie Powell, who were killed in an auto ... accident
Clifford Brown and Richie Powell got killed in a car accident, so – I think on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which is a dangerous turnpike anyway.
Well, I had gone to New York in 1955 after Clifford Brown and Richie Powell died
Every mention
4 moments in the recordings, 3 of them Barry speaking. Each says who is talking.
Detroit Jazz: Ancient to the Future
- 33:03
Richie Powell and Clifford Brown were very good friends; their deaths led Barry to join Max Roach.
Interview on Italian television
- 5:39
‘Richard Powell’, the band’s pianist, had been killed with Clifford Brown, so Barry’s group joined Max.
Ep.3 | Everything no one has ever told you about jazz | Barry Harris
- 1:40
Barry joined Max after Clifford Brown and Richie Powell were killed in a car accident.
Barry Harris Spanish TV
- 15:37
Someone else
A Spanish TV narrator says Barry replaced Richie Powell, Bud’s younger brother, in Max Roach’s group.
In the interviews and notes
Barry joined Max Roach after Clifford Brown and Richie Powell were killed in a car accident, he thinks on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, a road he says he hates.
Barry says he went to New York in 1955 after Clifford Brown and Richie Powell died; Panken points out it was June 1956, and Barry then says he joined Max Roach’s band.
Barry Harris on WKCR-FM ¶289Barry Harris on WKCR-FM ¶290Barry Harris on WKCR-FM ¶291
Cleary notes Richie played piano on the original Pent Up House. Drawing on Pullman’s biography of Bud, he says Richie saw little of Bud while learning and Jackie McLean arranged much of his training, and that he came to sound much like Bud, though his tunes differ from Bud’s.
Tom Cleary (University of Vermont), Six Degrees of Bud Powell, Part ii-V-I ¶5
Method ideas nearby
Ideas of the method taught in the classes where they come up, with how many mentions fall in each.