Editing 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|The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume One]]
| B-side     = It Could Happen to You
| released   = {{Start date|1951}}
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Jazz music|Jazz]]
| length     = {{Duration|m=4|s=42}}
| label      = [[Blue Note Records|Blue Note]]
| writer     = Bud Powell
| producer   = [[Alfred Lion]]
| prev_title = Hallelujah
| prev_year  = 1951
| next_title =
| next_year  = 
}}
"'''Un Poco Loco'''" is an [[Afro-Cuban jazz|Afro-Cuban]] [[jazz standard]] composed by American jazz pianist [[Bud Powell]].<ref name="Afro-Cuban  Jazz">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Priestley history">{{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}}</ref> It was first recorded for [[Blue Note Records]] by Powell, [[Curly Russell]], and [[Max Roach]] on May 1, 1951.<ref name="The Glass Enclosure">{{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}}</ref><ref name="listener's guide">{{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}}</ref>

==Musical characteristics==

"Un Poco Loco" is in [[Thirty-two-bar form|thirty-two bar form]].<ref name="listener's guide" /> It uses the lydian scale, incorporating chords overlapping chords to imply a [[polytonality]] (D [[Major seventh chord|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]].<ref>DeMotta, David J. (2015) The contributions of Earl "Bud" Powell to the modern jazz style. Doctoral dissertation, The City University of New York.</ref>

==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'').<ref name="Nica's Dream">{{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}}</ref>

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