Bud Powell was the father of modern jazz piano, and pianist and composer Paul Grabowsky sits down at the piano in The Music Show's studio to demonstrate why.

Grabowsky breaks down Bud Powell’s influences, and demonstrates his technique, hand by hand. He talks about Powell’s musical relationships with contemporaries such as Charlie Parker and Fats Navarro, and his later influence on fellow pianists McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Chick Corea and Grabowsky himself.