"Un Poco Loco" is an

Afro-Cuban Afro-Cubans or Black Cubans are Cubans of West African ancestry. The term ''Afro-Cuban'' can also refer to historical or cultural elements in Cuba thought to emanate from this community and the combining of native African and other cultural el ...

jazz standard composed by American jazz pianist Bud Powell. It was first recorded for Blue Note Records by Powell, Curly Russell, and

Max Roach Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He work ...

on May 1, 1951.

Musical characteristics

"Un Poco Loco" is in thirty-two bar form. On the original recording, improvisation was based on a single scale instead of a chord sequence.

Legacy

In the late 1980s, the renowned literary and cultural critic

Harold Bloom Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was described as "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking worl ...

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'').

References

1951 songs Jazz compositions Compositions by Bud Powell {{1950s-jazz-composition-stub