MEL POWELL
Swing / Third Stream • United States
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Born: February 12, 1923 in New York City, New York Died: April 24, 1998 in Los Angeles, California
Mel Powell made his initial reputation as a jazz pianist and arranger, notably with the Benny Goodman band, but spent much of his life teaching classical composition and composing his own work in serial forms.
Powell was born Melvin Epstein to Russian Jewish parents in a house overlooking Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, a proximity which fed his early love of baseball. He showed an equally strong interest in music, however, and a precocious talent for the piano. A hand injury while playing baseball eventually forced him to choose, and music won out.
His older brother introduced him to jazz in the mid-30s, and took him to his first jazz concert, featuring the Benny Goodman Band at the Paramount Theatre on Broadway, in 1936. He told The New
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