Remembering Bud: Cleopatra's Dream

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Remembering Bud: Cleopatra's Dream
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Released1990
Recorded31 July and 1 August 1990
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length56:34
Label Nippon Crown / Evidence
Toshiko Akiyoshi chronology
Four Seasons
(1990)
Remembering Bud: Cleopatra's Dream
(1990)
Chic Lady
(1991)
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Remembering Bud: Cleopatra's Dream is a jazz trio album recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1990 as a tribute to jazz pianist Bud Powell and released on the Nippon Crown record label in Japan and on the Evidence label in the USA.

Contents

Track listing

all compositions by Bud Powell except as noted:

  1. "Cleopatra's Dream" – 6:29
  2. "Remembering Bud" (Akiyoshi) – 9:27
  3. "Un Poco Loco" – 6:10
  4. "Oblivion" – 4:56
  5. "Celia" – 6:43
  6. "I'll Keep Loving You" –6:08
  7. "Parisian Thoroughfare" – 4:55
  8. "Budo" (Davis, Powell) – 3:59
  9. "Tempus Fugit" – 4:12
  10. "Dance of the Infidels" – 3:35

Personnel

Specific

  1. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008) The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th edition). Penguin. p. 15


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