The Best of Bud Powell on Verve
1994 greatest hits album by Bud Powell
The Best of Bud Powell on Verve | ||||
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Greatest hits album by Bud Powell | ||||
Released | August 23, 1994 | |||
Recorded | 1949–1955 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 57:22 | |||
Label | Verve | |||
Producer | Norman Granz, Leroy Lovett | |||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [2] |
The Best of Bud Powell on Verve is a selection of jazz pianist Bud Powell's recordings for Verve Records, released on August 23, 1994.[3]
The similarly-titled The Best of Bud Powell was released by Blue Note Records in 1989, and features tracks recorded from 1949-1963 on that label, with little overlap in song selection.[4]
Track listing
All songs were written by Bud Powell, except where noted.
- "Lady Bird" (Tadd Dameron) – 4:44
- "Dance of the Infidels" – 2:16
- "So Sorry, Please" – 3:14
- "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) – 2:48
- "Willow Grove" (aka "Willow Groove") – 4:27
- "Tempus Fugue-it" (aka "Tempus Fugit") – 2:25
- "It Never Entered My Mind" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:56
- "Bean and the Boys" (Contrafact of "Lover Come Back to Me") (Coleman Hawkins) – 3:38
- "Celia" – 2:57
- "Tea for Two" [78 take (take 10)] (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar) – 3:46
- "Star Eyes" (Gene De Paul, Don Raye) – 3:28
- "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 3:08
- "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:15
- "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Bronislaw Kaper, Gus Kahn, Walter Jurmann) – 2:59
- "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli, Mitchell Parish) – 4:58
- "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 3:50
- "Parisian Thoroughfare" (aka "Parisienne Thorofare") – 2:28
Personnel
Performance
Bud Powell plays piano on all tracks.
April 27, 1955, tracks 1, 11, 15. April 25, 1955, track 5.
January 13, 1955, track 2.
- Percy Heath – bass
- Kenny Clarke – drums
February 1950, tracks 3, 4, 12.
- Curly Russell – bass
- Max Roach – drums
February 23, 1949, tracks 6, 10, 14.
- Ray Brown – bass
- Max Roach – drums
June 4, 1954, track 7.
- Percy Heath – bass
- Art Taylor – drums
January 11, 1955, tracks 8, 13.
- Lloyd Trotman – bass
- Art Blakey – drums
July 1, 1950, track 9.
- Ray Brown – bass
- Buddy Rich – drums
February, 1951, tracks 16-17 – Powell solos.
Production
- Norman Granz – producer
- Max Harrison – liner notes
- Leroy Lovett – producer
References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1176. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ "Bud Powell : Discography : The Best of Bud Powell on Verve". Verve Records. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
- ^ "Bud Powell – The Best of Bud Powell (Blue Note)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. Because Powell's discography features albums with the same title, record labels are identified to avoid any confusion.
or co-leader
- Bud Powell Trio (Roost, 1947–53)
- Jazz Giant/Piano Solos/Piano Solos, No.2 (1949–50)
- The Amazing Bud Powell (1949–51)
- The Genius of Bud Powell/Bud Powell's Moods (Mercury/Verve, 1950–51)
- Inner Fires (1953)
- The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2 (1953)
- Bud Powell's Moods (Norgran/Verve, 1956)
- Jazz Original/Bud Powell '57 (1954–55)
- The Lonely One... (1955)
- Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell (1955)
- Blues in the Closet (1956)
- Strictly Powell (1956)
- Bud! (1957)
- Swingin' with Bud (1957)
- Bud Plays Bird (1957–58)
- Time Waits (1958)
- The Scene Changes (1958)
- Bud in Paris (1959–60)
- The Essen Jazz Festival Concert (1960)
- A Portrait of Thelonious (1961)
- A Tribute to Cannonball (and Don Byas, 1961)
- 'Round About Midnight at the Blue Note (1961)
- At the Golden Circle (1962)
- Bouncing with Bud (1962)
- Americans in Europe (split album, 1963)
- Bud Powell in Paris (1963)
- Relaxin' at Home, 61–64 (1961–64)
- Eternity (1961–64)
- The Invisible Cage (1964)
- Holidays in Edenville, 64 (1964)
- The Return of Bud Powell (1964)
- Award at Birdland, 64 (1964)
- Ups 'n Downs (c. 1965)
- Cootie Williams and His Orchestra 1941–1944 (Cootie Williams, Classics, 1944)
- New York Journeyman – Complete Recordings (Frank Socolow, 1945)
- Dexter Rides Again (Dexter Gordon, 1946)
- J. J. Johnson's Jazz Quintets (1946)
- Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson (1949–50)
- One Night in Birdland (1950)
- Jazz at Massey Hall (Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Mingus, Max Roach, 1953)
- Mingus at Antibes (Charles Mingus, 1960)
- Paris Jam Session (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1959)
- Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (1963)
- Our Man in Paris (Dexter Gordon, 1963)
and box sets
- Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 1: Early Years of a Genius, 44–48 (1944–48)
- The Best of Bud Powell on Verve (1949–55)
- The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings (1947–63)
- The Complete RCA Trio Sessions (1956–57)
- The Complete Bud Powell on Verve (1949–56)
- "Bouncing with Bud" (1946)
- "Tempus Fugue-it" (1949)
- "Parisian Thoroughfare" (1951)
- "Un Poco Loco" (1951)
- "Glass Enclosure" (1953)
- "Mediocre" (1955)
- "Bud on Bach" (1957)
- "Una Noche con Francis" (1964)
- Round Midnight (1986)