The Amazing Bud Powell

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The Amazing Bud Powell
Studio album by Bud Powell

Publication
(s)

1951

Label (s) Blue note

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

8/12/20

occupation

production

Alfred Lion

Studio (s)

WOR Studios, New York City

chronology
The Genius of Bud Powell
(1951)
The Amazing Bud Powell The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 2
(1953)
Fats Navarro, around 1947.
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .

The Amazing Bud Powell is a jazz - album of Bud Powell containing the material of two sessions on August 9, 1949 and May 1, 1951, which for the label Blue Note Records received, first as singles and in 1951 as a 10-inch LP were released. The long-playing record (in 12-inch format) The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 1 was then released with additional material . With the CD edition of the album, Powell's first two Blue Note sessions are available in their entirety.

The album

Bud Powell & His Modernists 1949

The new CD edition, which is now available in an expanded form, initially contains the pieces that Bud Powell and his (only) quintet with trumpeter Fats Navarro , tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins , as well as bassist Tommy Potter and drummer Roy Haynes on September 9th. August 1949 under the group name Bud Powell & His Modernists . It was the 24-year-old pianist's third recording session under his own name; he had just been released from Creedmore Sanatorium after a long stay, where he was also subjected to electric shock treatment. Nevertheless, this period was Powell's most productive period afterwards, according to Roy Haynes, who was involved in an interview.

Fats Navarro and Sonny Rollins only played on the Modernists recordings; the three Bud Powell compositions "Bouncing with Bud", "Wail" and "Dance of the Infidels" as well as Thelonious Monks " 52nd Street Theme " were recorded. The tracks, the ballad “ You Go to My Head ” and the bebop classic “ Ornithology ” written by Charlie Parker and Benny Harris were created on the same day in a trio with Tommy Potter and Roy Haynes.

Bud Powell Trio 1951

After the Modernists recordings, Bud Powell disappeared in a psychiatric hospital for 18 months. How precarious his emotional state was, indicated Alfred Lion in a later interview with Michael Cuscuna ; He said that Bud Powell had initially disappeared at the scheduled recording session, then 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 "). The later created Blue Note album was then the first release in jazz that contained three variants 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 finally contained a drum solo (Roach otherwise accompanied through all three takes with the "Cow Bell") and a repetition of the theme. Powell also played two unaccompanied versions of " A Night in Tunisia "; With the following "It Could Happen to You" Powell paid homage to his role model Art Tatum . The alternate take , which arose first, was, according to Leonard Feather, rejected because of its weak end; the longer master take contains an additional half chorus . The session also recorded the track "Parisian Thoroughfare", which Powell had recorded three months earlier in his session for Norman Granz (later appeared on Verve album The Genius of Bud Powell ). For this track and the Harold Arlen standard Over the Rainbow Powell was accompanied by bassist Curly Russell and drummer Max Roach.

rating

Roy Haynes recalled the Modernists' session in 1949 when Bud Powell said at the end of the recording, "In ten years, people will be playing what we played today." Bob Blumenthal remarked that Powell's prediction was both correct and correct also modest, because the frontline of his trumpet and tenor saxophone ensemble , the interaction of the wind section and the interactive rhythm section anticipated the hardbop style that dominated jazz in the late 1950s.

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

Scott Yanow calls it “full of essential music” in his book Jazz on Record ; in Bebop: The Best Musicians and Recordings , Yanow refers in particular to the quintet pieces "Bouncing with Bud", "52nd Street Theme" and "Dance of the Infidels", as well as the three trio versions of "Un Poco Loco" recorded in 1951 . Bob Blumenthal calls the three versions "a rhythmic minefield over a Latin base" and considers them to be Powell's best composition.

Richard Cook and Brian Morton awarded the new edition with the highest rating in “ The Penguin Guide to Jazz ”.

Edition history

Under the title The Amazing Bud Powell , Blue Note Records released a long-playing record (BLP 5003) around 1953, which contained a total of 8 tracks from two sessions in 1949 and 1951. This plate was a 10-inch plate, the third of the label in the 5000 series. The label later released the same titles and additional material from these sessions on the larger 12-inch format under the title The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 1 . It was the label's third 12-inch LP with Modern Jazz (1500 series). The remaining pieces of the sessions appeared on the label's next album, The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 2 (BLP 1504).

The original album thus became part of a loosely-knit series of Powell recordings for Blue Note, such as the 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 re-released in chronological form, with additional alternative takes ; in 2001 in an expanded form. The recordings are also included in the compilation The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings , a 4 CD box.

The titles

LP edition

  • Bud Powell Trio (Curly Russell / Max Roach; May 1, 1951):
  1. "Un Poco Loco" (3 takes)
  2. "It Could Happen to You"
  3. "A Night at Tunisia"
  4. "Parisian Thoroughfare"
  • Bud Powell & The Modernists (with Navarro / Rollins / Tommy Potter / Roy Haynes; August 8, 1949)
  1. "Dance of the Infidels"
  2. "52nd Street Theme"
  3. "Wail"
  4. "Bouncing with Bud"
  • Bud Powell Trio (with Tommy Potter / Roy Haynes; August 8, 1949)
  1. "Ornithology"
  • The original LP The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 2 includes the tracks "Over the Rainbow", "It Could Happen to You", "You Go to My Head", "Ornithology" and trio recordings from August 24, 1953 with bassist George Duvivier and the drummer Art Taylor .

Republished in 1989

  1. "Bouncing with Bud" (Alternate Take # 1) "( Gil Fuller , Powell) - 3:06
  2. "Bouncing with Bud" (Alternate Take # 2) "(Fuller, Powell) - 3:14
  3. "Bouncing with Bud" (Fuller, Powell) - 3:03
  4. "Wail" (Alternate Take) - 2:43
  5. "Wail" - 2:43
  6. "Dance of the Infidels" (alternate take) - 2:51
  7. "Dance of the Infidels" - 2:54
  8. "52nd Street Theme" ( Thelonious Monk ) - 2:50
  9. " You Go to My Head " ( J. Fred Coots , Haven Gillespie ) - 3:15
  10. " Ornithology " ( Benny Harris , Charlie Parker ) - 2:23
  11. "Ornithology" (alternate take) (Harris, Parker) - 3:10
  12. " Un Poco Loco " (alternate take) - 3:50
  13. "Un Poco Loco" (alternate take) - 4:31
  14. “Un Poco Loco” - 4:45
  15. " Over the Rainbow " ( Harold Arlen , EY Harburg ) - 2:57

Extended version from 2001

  1. "Bouncing with Bud" (Fuller, Powell) - 3:04
  2. "Wail" - 3:06
  3. "Dance of the Infidels" - 2:53
  4. "52nd Street Theme" (Monk) - 2:49
  5. "You Go to My Head" (Coots, Gillespie) - 3:15
  6. "Ornithology" (Harris, Parker) - 2:23
  7. "Bouncing with Bud" (alternate take # 1) (Fuller, Powell) - 3:06
  8. "Bouncing with Bud" (alternate take # 2) (Fuller, Powell) - 3:15
  9. "Wail" (alternate take) - 2:41
  10. "Dance of the Infidels" (alternate take) - 2:50
  11. "Ornithology" (alternate take) (Harris, Parker) - 3:12
  12. "Un Poco Loco" - 4:46
  13. "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen, Harburg) - 2:58
  14. A Night in Tunisia ” ( Dizzy Gillespie , Frank Paparelli ) - 4:16
  15. " It Could Happen to You " ( Johnny Burke , James Van Heusen ) - 3:16
  16. "Parisian Thoroughfare" - 3:25
  17. "Un Poco Loco" (alternate take # 1) - 3:49
  18. "Un Poco Loco" (alternate take # 2) - 4:32
  19. "A Night in Tunisia" (alternate take) (Gillespie, Paparelli) - 3:52
  20. "It Could Happen to You" (alternate take) (Burke, VanHeusen) - 2:22

All other tracks were composed by Bud Powell .

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literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. cit. after Blumenthal, Liner Notes.
  2. Liner Notes for The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings . Cook Blue Note , Argon Verlag 2001, p. 63. Lion had left Powell in his apartment the night before to keep an eye on him. When Lion's cat jumped on the breakfast table on the morning of the recording day, Powell went mad and tried to kill her with a knife. Powell then insisted on dropping by a doctor before recording, but his waiting room was overcrowded so they had to drive straight to the recording studio.
  3. John Firehammer, The Amazing Bud Powell Vols. 1 and 2 All About Jazz . Retrieved May 26, 2008
  4. It followed the two LPs Miles Davis Vol. 1. and Vol. 2 and was probably released in 1954 or later. See label discography