Un Poco Loco

"Un Poco Loco" is an Afro-Cuban jazz standard composed by American jazz pianist Bud Powell.[1][2] It was first recorded for Blue Note Records by Powell, Curly Russell, and Max Roach on May 1, 1951.[3][4]

"Un Poco Loco"
Single by Bud Powell
from the album The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume One
B-side	"It Could Happen to You"
Released	1951
Genre	Jazz
Length	4:42
Label	Blue Note
Songwriter(s)	Bud Powell
Producer(s)	Alfred Lion
Bud Powell singles chronology
"Hallelujah" (1951) "Un Poco Loco" (1951)

Musical characteristics

"Un Poco Loco" is in thirty-two bar form.[4] On the original recording, improvisation was based on a single scale instead of a chord sequence.[2]

Legacy

In the late 1980s, the renowned literary and cultural critic Harold Bloom included "Un Poco Loco" in his list of the most "sublime" works of twentieth-century American art (from his introduction to Modern Critical Interpretations: Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow).[5]

References

1. Yanow, Scott (2000). Afro-Cuban Jazz. San Francisco, C.A.: Miller Freeman Books. p. 188. ISBN 087930619X. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
2. Priestley, Brian (1991). Jazz On Record: A History. New York: Billboard Books. p. 99. ISBN 0823075621. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
3. Groves, Alan (2001). The Glass Enclosure: The Life Of Bud Powell (Reprinted. ed.). New York: Continuum. p. 124. ISBN 0826447465. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
4. McCalla, James (1994). Jazz, A Listener's Guide. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. pp. 116, 123, 125, 194. ISBN 0130979406. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
5. Kastin, David (2011). Nica's Dream (1st ed.). W. W. Norton. pp. 172, 173. ISBN 9780393069402. Retrieved 13 April 2019.