• The album cover of Bud Powell's 'The Amazing Bud Powell' on Blue Note Records, featuring a black-and-white portrait on a dark background with a bright blue spine band and Japanese text.

Bud Powell

The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1

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VG+
MEDIA
  • NM-
YEAr
  • 1978 (1955)
COUNTRY
Japan
extras
  • Obi, Insert, Reissue
IF YOU LIKE
  • Jazz
  • Bop
  • Piano
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Sonny Clark
  • Tommy Flanagan
  • Barry Harris

Bud Powell’s landmark Blue Note recordings helped usher the label from its early hot jazz roots into the modern sounds of Powell, Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and their contemporaries. Recorded in 1949 and 1951, these quintet and trio sessions first appeared in 1952 as a 10-inch LP, then expanded as The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 (BLP 1503) in 1955, when Blue Note introduced its 12-inch LPs and launched the 1500 series. The quintet features Fats Navarro, Sonny Rollins, Tommy Potter and Roy Haynes on Powell compositions including “Dance of the Infidels,” “Wail” and “Bouncing with Bud.” For the trio session, Curly Russell and Max Roach join Powell on three takes of “Un Poco Loco,” as well as “Parisian Thoroughfare” and Dizzy Gillespie’s “A Night in Tunisia.” The set also includes Powell’s solo performance of “It Could Happen to You.”