Webb City (Bud Powell composition)
Webb City is a jazz composition by pianist Bud Powell that was first recorded in 1946.
Bud Powell named his composition not after the city of the same name in Missouri , but after Freddie Webster , a trumpeter of the pre-bebop era. With Bouncing With Bud, Un Poco Loco, Dance of the Infidels, Celia, Strictly Confidential, Glass Enclosure, Hallucinations and Parisian Thoroughfare, Webb City was one of the pianist's best-known titles.
The melodic phrases of Webb City "show how Powell in the model rejected approval / was involved, as was present in his early compositions." Bud Powell's title Webb City was first on September 6, 1946 in New York City by Fats Navarro / Gil Fuller 's Modernists (also called The Bebop Boys ), in which Bud Powell also played. In the following years the composition was recorded several times, including a. by Johnny Dankworth (1951), Art Pepper (1957), Tommy Turrentine (1960), Barry Harris ( Luminescence ! , 1967), Sonny Stitt (1972), Art Blakey (1981), Phil Woods (1984), Jan Lundgren (1996 ), Matt Wilson (2000) and Gary Versace (2006); the discographer Tom Lord lists 26 cover versions of the composition.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Doug Ramsey : Webb City (2011)
- ↑ Requiescat in Pace: Bud Powell — 1924–1966 in ( January 19, 2013 memento in the Internet Archive ) DownBeat (1966)
- ↑ In general, the melodic rhetoric of "Webb City" shows Powell fully engaged with the affirmation / againstness model present in earlier works. Quoted from: The Art of Bebop: Earl "Bud" Powell and the Emergence of Modern Jazz by Guthrie P. Ramsey. 1994
- ↑ In this band played Kenny Dorham , Fats Navarro (tp), Sonny Stitt (as), Morris Lane (ts), Eddie De Verteuil (bar), Bud Powell (p), Al Hall (kb) Kenny Clarke (dr) and Gil Fuller (arr).
- ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online, accessed October 17, 2016)