The Best of Bud Powell on Verve

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The Best of Bud Powell on Verve
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ReleasedAugust 23, 1994
Recorded1949-1955
Genre Jazz
Length57:22
Label Verve
Producer Norman Granz, Leroy Lovett
Bud Powell chronology
'Round About Midnight at the Blue Note
(1994)
The Best of Bud Powell on Verve
(1994)
The Complete Bud Powell on Verve
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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]

Contents

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.

  1. "Lady Bird" (Tadd Dameron) – 4:44
  2. "Dance of the Infidels" – 2:16
  3. "So Sorry, Please" – 3:14
  4. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) – 2:48
  5. "Willow Grove" (aka "Willow Groove") – 4:27
  6. "Tempus Fugue-it" (aka "Tempus Fugit") – 2:25
  7. "It Never Entered My Mind" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:56
  8. "Bean and the Boys" (Contrafact of "Lover Come Back to Me") (Coleman Hawkins) – 3:38
  9. "Celia" – 2:57
  10. "Tea for Two" [78 take (take 10)] (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar) – 3:46
  11. "Star Eyes" (Gene De Paul, Don Raye) – 3:28
  12. "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 3:08
  13. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:15
  14. "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Bronislaw Kaper, Gus Kahn, Walter Jurmann) – 2:59
  15. "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli, Mitchell Parish) – 4:58
  16. "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 3:50
  17. "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.

February 1950, tracks 3, 4, 12.

February 23, 1949, tracks 6, 10, 14.

June 4, 1954, track 7.

January 11, 1955, tracks 8, 13.

July 1, 1950, track 9.

February, 1951, tracks 16-17 – Powell solos.

Production

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1176. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. "Bud Powell : Discography : The Best of Bud Powell on Verve". Verve Records . Retrieved 2009-06-17.
  4. "Bud Powell – The Best of Bud Powell (Blue Note)". Discogs.com . Retrieved 2021-02-08.