Trumpet players Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, and pianists Thelonius Monk and Bud Powell were some of them.

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You couldn't have anything that you could call remotely modern jazz piano without Bud Powell setting that template.

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Hanging above was a framed photo of pioneering bebop pianist Bud Powell.

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McCoy Tyner was born on Dec. 11, 1938, and grew up in a Philadelphia neighborhood with Richie Powell and Bud Powell as neighbors.

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