Un Poco Loco
{{For multi|the song from Coco|Coco (soundtrack)|the Bobby Hutcherson album|Un Poco Loco (album)}}
{{Infobox song
| name = Un Poco Loco
| cover = Un Poco Loco Bud Powell.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Bud Powell
| album = The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume One
| B-side = It Could Happen to You
| released = {{Start date|1951}}
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| genre = Jazz
| length = {{Duration|m=4|s=42}}
| label = Blue Note
| writer = Bud Powell
| producer = Alfred Lion
| prev_title = Hallelujah
| prev_year = 1951
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"Un Poco Loco" is an Afro-Cuban jazz standard composed by American jazz pianist Bud Powell.{{cite book |last1=Yanow |first1=Scott |title=Afro-Cuban Jazz |date=2000 |publisher=Miller Freeman Books |location=San Francisco, C.A. |isbn=978-0-87930-619-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/afrocubanjazz00yanow/page/188 188] |url=https://archive.org/details/afrocubanjazz00yanow |url-access=registration |access-date=13 April 2019}}{{cite book |last1=Priestley |first1=Brian |title=Jazz On Record: A History |date=1991 |publisher=Billboard Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8230-7562-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/jazzonrecordhist00prie/page/n122 99] |url=https://archive.org/details/jazzonrecordhist00prie |url-access=registration |access-date=13 April 2019}} It was first recorded for Blue Note Records by Powell, Curly Russell, and Max Roach on May 1, 1951.{{cite book |last1=Groves |first1=Alan |title=The Glass Enclosure: The Life Of Bud Powell |date=2001 |publisher=Continuum |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8264-4746-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/glassenclosureli00grov/page/124 124] |edition= Reprinted. |url=https://archive.org/details/glassenclosureli00grov |url-access=registration |access-date=13 April 2019}}{{cite book |last1=McCalla |first1=James |title=Jazz, A Listener's Guide |date=1994 |publisher=Prentice Hall |location=Englewood Cliffs, N.J. |isbn=978-0-13-097940-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/jazzlistenersgui00mcca/page/n125 116], 123, 125, 194 |url=https://archive.org/details/jazzlistenersgui00mcca |url-access=registration |access-date=13 April 2019}}
Musical characteristics
"Un Poco Loco" is in thirty-two bar form. It uses the lydian scale, incorporating chords overlapping chords to imply a polytonality (D major 7 over C major 7: CEGBDF#AC#) with the improvisation based on an alternating polytonality and an 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.DeMotta, David J. (2015) The contributions of Earl "Bud" Powell to the modern jazz style. Doctoral dissertation, The City University of New York.
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).{{cite book |last1=Kastin |first1=David |title=Nica's Dream |date=2011 |publisher=W. W. Norton |isbn=978-0-393-06940-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/nicasdreamlifele00kast/page/172 172], 173 |edition= 1st |url=https://archive.org/details/nicasdreamlifele00kast |url-access=registration |access-date=13 April 2019}}
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