Like his brother Bud Powell, Richie began learning the piano at an early age,
attending New York City College. Initially traversing all styles from rhythm and
blues to hard bop, he began his career with Jackie McLean - who lived a stone's
throw from the Powell family - and then went on to work with Paul Williams and
Johnny Hodges. He then joined the historic quintet led by the Max Roach-Clifford
Brown duo. Sadly, while his brother Bud's story was also interspersed with many
dramatic events, his life was fatally cut short at the age of 25. Richie Powell
and Clifford Brown both die...