The Best of Bud Powell on Verve

1994 greatest hits album by Bud Powell

Greatest hits album by

Bud Powell

Released

August 23, 1994

Recorded

1949-1955

Genre

Jazz

Length

57:22

Label

Verve

Producer

Norman Granz, Leroy Lovett

Bud Powell chronology

'Round About Midnight at the Blue Note
(1994)

The Best of Bud Powell on Verve
(1994)

The Complete Bud Powell on Verve
(1994)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

The Best of Bud Powell on Verve is a selection of jazz pianist Bud Powell's recordings for Verve Records, released on August 23, 1994.^[3]

The similarly-titled The Best of Bud Powell was released by Blue Note Records in 1989, and features tracks recorded from 1949-1963 on that label, with little overlap in song selection.^[4]

Track listing

All songs were written by Bud Powell, except where noted.

"Lady Bird" (Tadd Dameron) – 4:44
"Dance of the Infidels" – 2:16
"So Sorry, Please" – 3:14
"Sweet Georgia Brown" (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) – 2:48
"Willow Grove" (aka "Willow Groove") – 4:27
"Tempus Fugue-it" (aka "Tempus Fugit") – 2:25
"It Never Entered My Mind" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:56
"Bean and the Boys" (Contrafact of "Lover Come Back to Me") (Coleman Hawkins) – 3:38
"Celia" – 2:57
"Tea for Two" [78 take (take 10)] (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar) – 3:46
"Star Eyes" (Gene De Paul, Don Raye) – 3:28
"April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 3:08
"Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:15
"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Bronislaw Kaper, Gus Kahn, Walter Jurmann) – 2:59
"Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli, Mitchell Parish) – 4:58
"Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 3:50
"Parisian Thoroughfare" (aka "Parisienne Thorofare") – 2:28

Personnel

Performance

Bud Powell plays piano on all tracks.

April 27, 1955, tracks 1, 11, 15. April 25, 1955, track 5.

George Duvivier – bass
Art Taylor – drums

January 13, 1955, track 2.

Percy Heath – bass
Kenny Clarke – drums

February 1950, tracks 3, 4, 12.

Curly Russell – bass
Max Roach – drums

February 23, 1949, tracks 6, 10, 14.

Ray Brown – bass
Max Roach – drums

June 4, 1954, track 7.

Percy Heath – bass
Art Taylor – drums

January 11, 1955, tracks 8, 13.

Lloyd Trotman – bass
Art Blakey – drums

July 1, 1950, track 9.

Ray Brown – bass
Buddy Rich – drums

February, 1951, tracks 16-17 – Powell solos.

Production

Norman Granz – producer
Max Harrison – liner notes
Leroy Lovett – producer

References

^ Allmusic review
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1176. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ "Bud Powell : Discography : The Best of Bud Powell on Verve". Verve Records. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
^ "Bud Powell – The Best of Bud Powell (Blue Note)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2021-02-08.

Bud Powell

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. Because Powell's discography features albums with the same title, record labels are identified to avoid any confusion.

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