The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings

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The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings
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ReleasedOctober 4, 1994
Recorded1947–1963
Genre Jazz
Label Blue Note
Producer Alfred Lion
Bud Powell chronology
The Best of Bud Powell on Verve
(1994)
The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings
(1994)
Bud Plays Bird
(1997)
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The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings is a four-disc box set by American jazz pianist Bud Powell compiling his recordings as leader for Blue Note, and two early sessions for Roost, released by Blue Note on October 4, 1994.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Bud Powell, except as noted.

Disc one
No.TitleWriter(s)Date recordedLength
1."I'll Remember April"January 10, 19472:54
2."(Back Home Again in) Indiana"January 10, 19472:45
3."Somebody Loves Me"
January 10, 19472:56
4."I Should Care"January 10, 19473:02
5."Bud's Bubble" January 10, 19472:36
6."Off Minor" Thelonious Monk January 10, 19472:24
7."Nice Work If You Can Get It"
January 10, 19472:20
8."Everything Happens to Me"January 10, 19472:41
9."Bouncing with Bud" (alternate take #1)
August 9, 19493:03
10."Bouncing with Bud" (alternate take #2)
  • Fuller
  • Powell
August 9, 19493:12
11."Bouncing with Bud"
  • Fuller
  • Powell
August 9, 19493:01
12."Wail" (alternate take) August 9, 19492:38
13."Wail" August 9, 19493:02
14."Dance of the Infidels" (alternate take) August 9, 19492:52
15."Dance of the Infidels" August 9, 19492:50
16."52nd Street Theme"MonkAugust 9, 19492:45
17."You Go to My Head"August 9, 19493:11
18."Ornithology"August 9, 19492:20
19."Ornithology" (alternate take)
  • Harris
  • Parker
August 9, 19493:07
20."Un Poco Loco" (alternate take #1) May 1, 19513:46
21."Un Poco Loco" May 1, 19514:28
22."Un Poco Loco" May 1, 19514:42
23."Over the Rainbow"May 1, 19512:55
Disc two
No.TitleWriter(s)Date recordedLength
1."A Night in Tunisia"May 1, 19514:16
2."A Night in Tunisia" (alternate take)
  • Gillespie
  • Paparelli
May 1, 19513:52
3."It Could Happen to You" (alternate take)May 1, 19512:22
4."It Could Happen to You"
  • Van Heusen
  • Burke
May 1, 19513:16
5."Parisian Thoroughfare" May 1, 19513:25
6."Autumn in New York" Vernon Duke August 14, 19532:51
7."Reets and I" Benny Harris August 14, 19533:18
8."Reets and I" (alternate take)HarrisAugust 14, 19532:30
9."Sure Thing"August 14, 19532:39
10."Collard Greens and Black-Eyed Peas" (alternate take) Oscar Pettiford August 14, 19532:11
11."Collard Greens and Black-Eyed Peas"PettifordAugust 14, 19533:01
12."Polka Dots and Moonbeams"
  • Van Heusen
  • Burke
August 14, 19534:00
13."I Want to Be Happy"August 14, 19532:50
14."Audrey" August 14, 19532:54
15."Glass Enclosure" August 14, 19532:21
16."Embraceable You"
  • George Gershwin
  • Ira Gershwin
September 19532:51
17."Burt Covers Bud" September 19533:07
18."My Heart Stood Still"September 19533:20
19."You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" Cole Porter September 19532:41
20."Bags' Groove" Milt Jackson September 19532:14
21."My Devotion"September 19533:05
22."Stella by Starlight" Victor Young September 19532:10
23."Woody 'n' You"Dizzy GillespieSeptember 19533:00
Disc three
No.TitleWriter(s)Date recordedLength
1."Blue Pearl" August 3, 19573:46
2."Blue Pearl" (alternate take) August 3, 19574:03
3."Keepin' in the Groove" August 3, 19572:53
4."Some Soul" August 3, 19576:56
5."Frantic Fancies" August 3, 19574:50
6."Bud on Bach" August 3, 19572:30
7."Idaho" Jesse Stone August 3, 19575:14
8."Don't Blame Me" Jimmy McHughDorothy Fields August 3, 19577:31
9."Moose the Mooche"ParkerAugust 3, 19575:45
10."John's Abbey" May 24, 19585:36
11."Sub City" (alternate take) May 24, 19582:36
12."Sub City" May 24, 19584:32
13."John's Abbey" (alternate take) May 24, 19582:25
14."Buster Rides Again" May 24, 19585:30
Disc four
No.TitleWriter(s)Date recordedLength
1."Dry Soul" May 24, 19586:41
2."Marmalade" May 24, 19584:28
3."Monopoly" May 24, 19584:47
4."Time Waits" May 24, 19585:06
5."The Scene Changes" December 28, 19583:59
6."Down with It" December 28, 19583:58
7."Comin' Up" (alternate take) December 28, 19585:26
8."Comin' Up" December 28, 19587:54
9."Duid Deed" December 28, 19585:06
10."Cleopatra's Dream" December 28, 19584:22
11."Gettin' There" December 28, 19585:01
12."Crossin' the Channel" December 28, 19583:28
13."Danceland" December 28, 19583:41
14."Borderick" December 28, 19581:58
15."Like Someone in Love"
  • Van Heusen
  • Burke
May 23, 19636:18

Personnel

Musicians

January 10, 1947

August 9, 1949

May 1, 1951

August 14, 1953

September 1953

  • Bud Powell – piano
  • George Duvivier – bass
  • Art Taylor – drums

August 3, 1957

May 24, 1958

December 28, 1958

May 23, 1963

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