Product Description

BUD POWELL The Complete Blue Note And Roost Recordings (1994 US 75-track four CD set featuring every track recorded for both labels including the whole of the albums The Bud Powell Trio Plays The Amazing Bud Powell volumes one & two The Scene Changes & Bud! with many rare recordings & alternate takes. Complete with a forty page illustrated booklet each CD is in its own jewel case with picture sleeve & the entire collection is housed in a sturdy outer picture slipcase box)

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. I'll Remember April
2. Indiana
3. Somebody Loves Me
4. I Should Care
5. Bud's Bubble
6. Off Minor
7. Nice Work If You Can Get It
8. Everything Happens To Me
9. Bouncing With Bud (Alternate Take #1)
10. Bouncing With Bud (Alternate Take #2)
11. Bouncing With Bud
12. Wail
13. Wail
14. Dance Of The Infidels (Alternate Take)
15. Dance Of The Infidels
16. 52nd Street Theme
17. You Go To My Head
18. Ornithology
19. Ornithology (Alternate Take)
20. Un Poco Loco (Alternate Take #1)
21. Un Poco Loco (Alternate Take #2)
22. Un Poco Loco
23. Over The Rainbow

Disc 2:

1. A Night In Tunisia
2. A Night In Tunisia
3. It Could Happen To You
4. It Could Happen To You
5. Parisian Thoroughfare
6. Autumn In New York
7. Reets And I
8. Reets And I
9. Sure Thing
10. Collard Greens And Black Eyed Peas
11. Collard Greens And Black Eyed Peas
12. Polka Dots And Moon Beams
13. I Want To Be Happy
14. Audrey
15. Glass Enclosure
16. Embraceable You
17. Burt Covers Bud
18. My Heart Stood Still
19. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
20. Bags' Groove
21. My Devotion
22. Stella By Starlight
23. Woody 'N You

Disc 3:

1. Blue Pearl
2. Blue Pearl
3. Keepin' In The Groove
4. Some Soul
5. Frantic Fancies
6. Bud On Bach
7. Idaho
8. Don't Blame Me
9. Moose The Mooche
10. John's Abbey (Alternate Take)
11. Sub City (Alternate Take)
12. Sub City
13. John's Abbey
14. Buster Rides Again

Disc 4:

1. Dry Soul
2. Marmalade
3. Monopoly
4. Time Waits
5. The Scene Changes
6. Down With It
7. Comin' Up (Alternate Take)
8. Comin' Up
9. Duid Deed
10. Cleopatra's Dream
11. Gettin' There
12. Crossin' The Channel
13. Danceland
14. Borderick
15. Like Someone In Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #189342 in Music
• Released on: 2003-05-06
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Best of

From Amazon.com
Consider 1994 a banner year for Bud Powell reissues, with two comprehensive sets covering most of his American studio recordings. This four-CD set collects Powell's 1947 session for Roost and his Blue Note recordings from 1949 to 1958, with a final leap ahead to 1963 for a single trio track. Powell's mercurial genius is most apparent in the early sessions. The eight Roost tracks, with Curly Russell on bass and Max Roach on drums, are stunning demonstrations of Powell's flying right-hand runs, knotting harmonic complexity, and tempestuous invention, including an early recording of "Off Minor" that shows Powell's grasp of Thelonious Monk's music.

A 1949 quintet session has a teenaged Sonny Rollins in the frontline with trumpeter Fats Navarro for some Powell originals, and there are multiple trio takes of "Un Poco Loco" and "A Night in Tunisia" from 1951, in which each version seems somehow to exceed the manic energy of the preceding one. The final two CDs come from 1957-58, years when Powell had moderated his style, slowing down the infernal runs and working on a probing, more Monk-like, approach that often emphasized ballads and blues. Playing recent originals like "John's Abbey" and "Time Waits" in the company of some great rhythm players--bassists Paul Chambers and Sam Jones and drummers Philly Joe Jones and Art Taylor--Powell seems to find a new voice, a concentrated lyricism that tests the piano's emotive power. The five-CD Complete Bud Powell on Verve, which concentrates on Powell's recordings from the early to mid-1950s, is an important companion. --Stuart Broomer