A 2018 live performance of Bud Powell's Celia at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City by the Julieta Eugenio Quartet. The tune, a rhythm changes composition in B-flat at 189 BPM, is performed with pianist Steve Ash, bassist Paul Gill, and a drummer. Ash leads off with a three-chorus piano solo, followed by Eugenio's commanding five-chorus tenor saxophone solo, and Gill's four-chorus bass solo. Powell's rhythm changes compositions occupy a special place in the bebop canon, and Celia's driving melody sets up the blowing sections with characteristic harmonic and rhythmic urgency. The extended solo lengths across all three featured players give this performance the feel of a thorough blowing session. Smalls, located in Greenwich Village, has been one of New York's most important small jazz venues since the 1990s, and its late-night atmosphere encourages the kind of extended, uninhibited playing captured here. Eugenio's five-chorus solo on rhythm changes demonstrates her fluency with the fundamental harmonic vocabulary of bebop, while Ash and Gill bring veteran New York jazz sensibility to the rhythm section.
