Un Poco Loco
| "Un Poco Loco" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jazz | ||||
| Length | 4:42 | |||
| Label | Blue Note | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Bud Powell | |||
| Producer(s) | Alfred Lion | |||
| Bud Powell singles chronology | ||||
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"Un Poco Loco" is an
Musical characteristics
"Un Poco Loco" is in
altered dominant chord. Particularly remarkable to jazz musicians is the placement of C# against a C major 7 chord; James Weidman attributed this to bitonality, while Tardo Hammer attributed it to an extension of the circle of fifths.[5]
Legacy
In the late 1980s, 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).[6]
References
- ISBN 978-0-87930-619-9. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ISBN 978-0-8230-7562-1. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ISBN 978-0-8264-4746-3. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-13-097940-7. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ DeMotta, David J. (2015) The contributions of Earl "Bud" Powell to the modern jazz style. Doctoral dissertation, The City University of New York.
- ISBN 978-0-393-06940-2. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
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