The Amazing Bud Powell

Occupation

The Amazing Bud Powell is a jazz album by Bud Powell, the material from two sessions contains on August 9, 1949 and on May 1, 1951, Blue Note Records recorded for the label, first as singles and published in 1951 as a 10 -inch LP were. With further material then the LP ( in 12- inch format ) The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 1 was released. With the CD release of the album, the first two Blue Note Sessions Powells are in complete form.

  • 4.1 LP- edition
  • 4.2 Re-release 1989
  • 4.3 Extended version of 2001
  • 4.4 production
  • 6.1 Notes and references

The album

Bud Powell & His Modernists 1949

The new edition CD which is present now in expanded form, initially contains the pieces that Bud Powell with his ( single ) quintet with trumpeter Fats Navarro, the tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and bassist Tommy Potter and drummer Roy Haynes on 9 August 1949 recorded under the group name Bud Powell & His Modernists. It was the third recording session of the 24 -year-old pianist under his own name; he was released just after a long stay in the Creedmore sanatorium, where he was exposed to electric shock treatment. Nevertheless, this time was after Powell's most productive period, the time involved Roy Haynes in an interview.

Fats Navarro and Sonny Rollins only played in the Modernists recordings; while the three Bud Powell compositions " Bouncing with Bud ", " Wail " and " Dance of the Infidels " and Thelonious Monk's " 52nd Street Theme" have been recorded. The title, the ballad " You Go to My Head" and written by Charlie Parker and Benny Harris bop classic " Ornithology " emerged on the same day as a trio with Tommy Potter and Roy Haynes.

Bud Powell Trio 1951

According to the Modernists recordings Bud Powell disappeared for 18 months in a psychiatric hospital. How precarious was his emotional condition, pointed Alfred Lion in a later interview with Michael Cuscuna; He told Bud Powell was initially disappeared at the scheduled recording session, he suddenly appeared two hours later and just said: " Okay, okay, we're ready, let's go" and immediately took the first take of "Un Poco Loco " (translated :" A little crazy " ) on. The resulting later Blue Note album was then the first publication in jazz containing three versions of a title; three takes of "Un Poco Loco " appeared on the album; each of the three versions was longer and more complete than the previous one, the master take eventually included a drum solo ( Roach otherwise accompanied by all three takes with the " Cow Bell ") and a statement of the theme. Furthermore, Powell played two unaccompanied versions of " A Night in Tunisia " a; with the subsequent " It Could Happen to You" Powell proved his idol Art Tatum reverence. The alternate take that first arose, was probably rejected, according to Leonard Feather because of its weak end; the longer master take contains an additional half chorus. At the session the title " Parisian Thoroughfare " was recorded, the Powell had three months earlier recorded in his session for Norman Granz (later appeared on the VerveAlbum The Genius of Bud Powell). This title and the Harold Arlen standard Over the Rainbow Powell was joined by bassist Curly Russell and drummer Max Roach.

Assessment

Roy Haynes remembered the Modernists session in 1949 when Bud Powell at the end of the recordings said. " In ten years people will play what we played today," Bob Blumenthal commented on this prediction Powell, she was both accurate also modest, because the Frontline his ensemble of trumpet and tenor saxophone, the interaction of the wind section and the interactive rhythm section anticipated the hard bop style that dominated the jazz of the late 1950s.

The album is one of the most extensive in Bud Powell's discography; the All Music Guide forgives him the highest rating.

Scott Yanow calls it in his book Jazz on Record "full of essential music"; in Bebop: The Best Musicians and Recordings, Yanow points in particular to the quintet plays " Bouncing with Bud ", " 52nd Street Theme " and " Dance of the Infidels ", as well as on the three recorded in 1951 trio versions of "Un Poco Loco ". Bob Blumenthal calls the three versions of " a rhythmic minefield on a Latin - based " and keep it for Powell's best composition.

Richard Cook and Brian Morton recorded in " The Penguin Guide to Jazz ," the new edition with the highest rating.

Edition history

Under the title The Amazing Bud Powell Blue Note Records published about 1953, a LP ( BLP 5003 ), which contained a total of eight tracks from two sessions of 1949 and 1951. In this album, there was a 10 -inch plate, the third of the labels in the 5000 series. Later, the label released the same title and other material from these sessions on the larger 12-inch format under the title The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 1. This was the third 12-inch LP of labels with Modern Jazz ( 1500 series ) .. The remaining pieces of the sessions appeared on the next album of the label, The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 2 ( BLP 1504).

The original album was part of a loosely connected series of Powell recordings for Blue Note, as published in 1953 LP The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 2, and another LP from 1957, The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 3: Bud! . The Album Vol 1 was remastered in 1989 and reissued in chronological order, with additional alternate takes; in 2001 even extended form. The recordings are also included in the compilation The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings, a 4 CD box.

The title

LP edition

  • Bud Powell Trio ( Curly Russell / Max Roach, May 1st, 1951 ):
  • Bud Powell & The Modernists ( with Navarro / Rollins / Tommy Potter / Roy Haynes, August 8, 1949 )
  • Bud Powell Trio ( with Tommy Potter / Roy Haynes, August 8, 1949 )
  • The original LP The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 2 comes next to the songs " Over the Rainbow ", " It Could Happen to You ," " You Go to My Head ", " Ornithology " and trio recordings of 24 August 1953, bassist George Duvivier and drummer Art Taylor.

Re-release 1989

Extended version of 2001

All other tracks composed by Bud Powell.

Production

  • Michael Cuscuna - producer of the Re-Issue
  • Leonard Feather - liner notes of the original edition
  • Doug Hawkins - sound engineer
  • John Herman Ader - Cover Design
  • Alfred Lion - producer of the original session
  • Ron McMaster - Mastering ( Digital Transfer )
  • Rudy Van Gelder - Mastering (Disc Transfer)
  • Francis Wolff - Photographer of Cover Photos
Record label Genre Ornithology (composition) Richard Cook (journalist) George Duvivier Gil Fuller Dizzy Gillespie Johnny Burke (lyricist)
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