Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 3)

chronology
Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 3)
Studio album by Bud Powell
Publication ; (s)	1957
Label (s)	Blue note
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	jazz
Title (number)	8 (LP) / 9 (CD)
running time	43:28
occupation	Piano : Bud Powell ; Trombone : Curtis Fuller (6–8) ; Bass : Paul Chambers (1–5, 7–9) ; Drums : Art Taylor ;
production	Alfred Lion
Studio (s)	Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 3) , also called The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 3: Bud! is a music album by jazz pianist Bud Powell , which was recorded on August 3, 1957 in the studio of Rudy Van Gelder in Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey and published by Blue Note in 1957. In addition to his companions, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Art Taylor, trombonist Curtis Fuller also appeared as a guest on three pieces .

The album

At the beginning of the year Powell had already performed with Art Taylor (and bassist George Duvivier ) in New York's Birdland ; he had already worked with Paul Chambers in 1953 for the Blue Note album The Amazing Bud Powell Vol . Chambers and Art Taylor, in turn, knew each other through their work together with George Wallington and Miles Davis Powell, Chambers and Taylor continued their collaboration in late 1958 with The Amazing Bud Powell: The Scene Changes .

The album begins with the blues orientated Some Soul ; at the following Blue Pearl , Leonard Feather was reminded of the standard You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to . Frantic Franties plays Powell at a fast pace. In Bud on Bach the pianist improvises on the solfeggietto by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , which he practiced in his childhood. Powell plays unaccompanied for the first 58 seconds. The A-side of the original album ended with Keepin 'in the Groove ; another blues-based piece with echoes of Art Tatum . The young trombonist Curtis Fuller joined on the B-side; in Jesse Stones Idaho is for Feathers view J.-J.-Johnson -Influence unmistakable. Bud, on the other hand, relies on the left-hand technique of the swing era in his solo , which emulates the stride piano style of Fats Waller . After the Jimmy McHugh ballad Don't Blame Me , the original album closes with the Charlie Parker composition Moose the Mooche , the theme of which is presented by Bud and Fuller in unison . Paul Chambers plays the double bass pizzicato in his solo .

reception

In his review of the album in Allmusic , which gave him the second highest rating of 4½ stars, Scott Yanow pointed to the very changeable condition of the pianist in the second half of the 1950s; on the other hand, Bud Powell was "surprisingly inspired by the third edition of The Amazing ." Among his trio performances with bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Art Taylor, Bud on Bach and Some Soul are the highlights. The album is a "strong bop set that is worth it."

In the cover text of the new edition from 2002, Bob Blumenthal emphasized the high level of this "really good session". With reference to the physical and psychological problems often brought up by the pianist in this phase, the author points out the new qualities in his sound. Nevertheless, a loss of energy in the higher tempi can be observed; there is also a "simplification of his otherwise wonderful compositions, as in Keepin 'on the Groove , far removed from the complex jewels of his early Blue Note."

Richard Cook and Brian Morton only gave the album three stars in the Penguin Guide To Jazz and added Curtis Fuller's “interesting lead voice”. “The drama is in the other [trio] pieces”, “that is not of the painful intensity of Glass Enclosure ”, but the commitment he brings in Bud on Bach, Frantic francies and Keepin in the Groove is amazing.

Edition history

The original album (Blue Note LP 1571) was first released on CD in 1989, with the order of the tracks being adjusted to the session sequence. With the release of the album in early 2002 in the RVG edition, the original sequence of the long-playing record was restored and an alternate take ("Blue Pearl") was added. This album is also part of the 4-CD edition The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings .

The pieces of the album

Blue Note BLP 1571, BST 81571, CDP 7 81571-2

Some Soul - 6:56
Blue Pearl - 3:46
Frantic Fancies - 4:50
Bud On Bach - 2:30
Keepin 'In The Groove - 2:53
Idaho ( Jesse Stone ) - 5:14
Don't Blame Me ( Jimmy McHugh , Dorothy Fields ) - 7:31
Moose the Mooche ( Charlie Parker ) - 5:45
Blue Pearl (alternate take) - 4:03

All other compositions are by Bud Powell.
The album cover design was done by Reid Miles ; Francis Wolff's photographs .

literature

Leonard Feather : Original Liner Notes (1957)
Bob Blumenthal : Liner Notes of the 2002 edition
Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .

Web links

Notes and individual references

↑ jazzdisco.org
^ Art Taylor then stepped in for the indisposable Philly Joe Jones ; See Blumenthal, 2007.
^ Leonard Feather, Liner Notes.
↑ Review of the album The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 3 - Bud! at Allmusic (English). Retrieved December 31, 2010.
↑ Blumenthal, Liner Notes 2002.
↑ Quoted from Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, p. 1077.

[1] zzdisco.org

[2] Art Taylor then stepped in for the indisposable Philly Joe Jones ; See Blumenthal, 2007.

[3] Leonard Feather, Liner Notes.

[4] Review of the album The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 3 - Bud! at Allmusic (English). Retrieved December 31, 2010.

[5] Blumenthal, Liner Notes 2002.

[6] Quoted from Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, p. 1077.