The Complete Bud Powell on Verve
The Complete Bud Powell on Verve is a five-disc box set, released on September 27, 1994, by Verve Records, containing all of jazz pianist Bud Powell's recordings as leader for producer Norman Granz.
| The Complete Bud Powell on Verve | |
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| Compilation album by | |
| Released | September 27, 1994 | 
| Recorded | 1949–1956 | 
| Genre | Jazz | 
| Label | Verve | 
| Producer | Norman Granz | 
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating | 
| Allmusic | |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | |
Track listing
    
All songs were written by Bud Powell, except where noted.
Disc one
    
- "Tempus Fugue-it" (aka "Tempus Fugit") – 2:25
 - "Celia" – 2:57
 - "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) – 3:37
 - "I'll Keep Loving You" – 2:40
 - "Strictly Confidential" – 3:08
 - "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Bronislaw Kaper, Gus Kahn, Walter Jurmann) – 2:59
 - "So Sorry, Please" – 3:14
 - "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:51
 - "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar) – 3:36
 - "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) – 2:48
 - "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) – 2:49
 - "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 3:08
 - "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton) – 3:20
 - "Hallelujah!" (Youmans, Leo Robin, Clifford Grey) – 2:58
 - "Tea for Two" [compilation take (take 6)] (Youmans, Caesar) – 4:13
 - "Tea for Two" [common take (take 5)] (Youmans, Caesar) – 3:29
 - "Tea for Two" [78 take (take 10)] (Youmans, Caesar) – 3:46
 - "Parisian Thoroughfare" (aka "Parisienne Thorofare") – 2:28
 - "Oblivion" – 2:08
 - "Dusk in Sandi" (aka "Dusky 'n' Sandy") – 2:13
 - "Hallucinations" (aka "Budo") – 2:25
 - "The Fruit" – 3:16
 - "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Manning Sherwin, Jack Strachey, Eric Maschwitz) – 3:41
 - "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 3:50
 - "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:18
 
Disc two
    
- "Moonlight in Vermont" (Karl Suessdorf, John Blackburn) – 3:35
 - "Spring Is Here" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:27
 - "Buttercup" – 2:59
 - "Fantasy in Blue" – 3:04
 - "It Never Entered My Mind" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:56
 - "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:45
 - "Time Was" (aka "Duerme" «Sleep») (Miguel Prado, Gabriel Luna, Bob Russell) – 4:17
 - "My Funny Valentine" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:53
 - "Like Someone in Love" [incomplete] (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 1:39
 - "Like Someone in Love" (Van Heusen, Burke) – 2:00
 - "Deep Night" (Charles E. Henderson, Rudy Vallée) – 3:45
 - "That Old Black Magic" [incomplete] (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 0:55
 - "That Old Black Magic [alternate take 1] (Arlen, Mercer) – 2:27
 - "That Old Black Magic (Arlen, Mercer) – 2:21
 - "That Old Black Magic [alternate take 2] (Arlen, Mercer) – 2:54
 - "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) – 5:08
 
Disc three
    
- "Thou Swell" [alternate take] (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 4:06
 - "Thou Swell" (Rodgers, Hart) – 4:29
 - "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:33
 - "Bean and the Boys" (contrafact of "Lover Come Back to Me") (Coleman Hawkins) – 3:36
 - "Tenderly" [incomplete] (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 0:23
 - "Tenderly" (Gross, Lawrence) – 3:20
 - "How High the Moon" (Morgan Lewis, Nancy Hamilton) – 4:23
 - "I Get a Kick out of You" [incomplete] (Cole Porter) – 0:35
 - "I Get a Kick out of You" (Porter) – 4:26
 - "I Get a Kick out of You" [alternate take] (Porter) – 3:58
 - "The Best Thing for You (Would Be Me)" [incomplete] (Irving Berlin) – 1:29
 - "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 4:11
 - "The Best Thing for You (Would Be Me)" (aka "The Best") (Berlin) – 2:41
 - "Mediocre" – 2:55
 - "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:30
 - "Epistrophy" (Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke) – 3:00
 - "Dance of the Infidels" – 2:16
 - "Salt Peanuts" (Dizzy Gillespie, Clarke) – 2:19
 - "Hey George" (aka "Sweet Georgia Brown") (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) – 3:25
 
Disc four
    
- "Conception" [incomplete] (George Shearing) – 0:09
 - "Conception" (Shearing) – 3:45
 - "Bean and the Boys" [incomplete] (Coleman Hawkins) – 0:28
 - "Bean and the Boys" (Hawkins) – 4:04
 - "Heart and Soul" (Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser) – 2:52
 - "Heart and Soul" [alternate take 1] (Carmichael, Loesser) – 2:31
 - "Heart and Soul" [alternate take 2] (Carmichael, Loesser) – 3:22
 - "Willow Grove" (aka "Willow Groove") [alternate take] – 3:17
 - "Willow Grove" (aka "Willow Groove") – 4:27
 - "Crazy Rhythm" (Joseph Meyer, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Irving Caesar) – 3:32
 - "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronnell) – 4:40
 - "Bean and the Boys" (Hawkins) – 5:24
 - "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" [alternate take] (Brooks Bowman) – 3:48
 - "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" [incomplete] (Bowman) – 0:30
 - "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Bowman) – 3:58
 - "Lady Bird" [alternate take 1] (Tadd Dameron) – 3:11
 - "Lady Bird" [incomplete] (Dameron) – 0:18
 - "Lady Bird" [alternate take 2] (Dameron) – 3:38
 - "Stairway to the Stars" [incomplete] (Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli, Mitchell Parish) – 0:05
 - "Stairway to the Stars" (Malneck, Signorelli, Parish) – 5:01
 - "Lady Bird" (Dameron) – 4:44
 
Disc five
    
- "Lullaby in Rhythm" [incomplete] (Clarence Profit, Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman, Walter Hirsch) – 0:28
 - "Lullaby in Rhythm" (Profit, Sampson, Goodman, Hirsch) – 4:00
 - "Star Eyes" [alternate take 1] (Gene De Paul, Don Raye) – 3:18
 - "Star Eyes" [alternate take 2] (De Paul, Raye) – 3:14
 - "Star Eyes" [alternate take 3] (De Paul, Raye) – 3:52
 - "Star Eyes" [incomplete] (De Paul, Raye) – 0:29
 - "Star Eyes" [alternate take 4] (De Paul, Raye) – 3:54
 - "Star Eyes" (De Paul, Raye) – 3:31
 - "Confirmation" (Charlie Parker) – 4:21
 - "When I Fall in Love" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 1:39
 - "My Heart Stood Still" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:29
 - "Blues in the Closet" (aka "Collard Greens and Black Eyed Peas") (Harry Babasin, Oscar Pettiford) – 3:01
 - "Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home" (Pettiford) – 3:21
 - "I Know That You Know" (Vincent Youmans, Anne Caldwell) – 2:23
 - "Elegy" (aka "Elegie" and "Elogie") – 2:56
 - "Woody 'n' You" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:52
 - "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 3:38
 - "Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker) – 4:32
 - "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:58
 - "Be-Bop" (Gillespie) – 2:23
 - "52nd Street Theme" (Thelonious Monk) – 2:23
 
Personnel
    
    Performance
    
Bud Powell plays piano on all tracks.
February 23, 1949, disc 1, tracks 1-6. See Jazz Giant.
February 1950, disc 1, tracks 7-13. See Jazz Giant.
- Curly Russell – bass (except track 11 – Powell solo)
 - Max Roach – drums (except track 11 – Powell solo)
 
July 1, 1950, disc 1, tracks 14-17. See The Genius of Bud Powell.
- Ray Brown – bass
 - Buddy Rich - drums
 
February 1951, disc 1, tracks 18-25 – Powell solos. See The Genius of Bud Powell.
June 2, 1954, disc 2, tracks 1-4. See Bud Powell's Moods.
- George Duvivier – bass
 - Art Taylor - drums
 
June 4, 1954, disc 2, tracks 5-8. See Bud Powell's Moods.
- Percy Heath – bass
 - Art Taylor - drums
 
December 16, 1954, disc 2, tracks 9-16. See Jazz Original.
- Percy Heath – bass (except track 10 – Powell solo)
 - Max Roach - drums (except tracks 9-10)
 
January 11, 1955, disc 3, tracks 1-6. January 12, 1955, disc 3, tracks 7-13. See Jazz Original and Bud Powell's Moods.
- Lloyd Trotman – bass
 - Art Blakey - drums
 
January 13, 1955, disc 3, tracks 14-19. See The Lonely One....
- Percy Heath – bass
 - Kenny Clarke - drums
 
April 25, 1955, disc 4, tracks 1-11. April 27, 1955, disc 4, tracks 12-21 and disc 5, tracks 1-9. See Piano Interpretations and The Lonely One....
- George Duvivier – bass
 - Art Taylor - drums
 
September 13, 1956, disc 5, tracks 10-21. See Blues in the Closet.
- Ray Brown – bass
 - Osie Johnson - drums
 
Production
    
- Norman Granz – producer
 - Peter Pullman – liner notes
 - David Lau, Lisa Po-Ying Huang - Graphic Design
 
References
    
- Yanow, Scott (2011). "Complete Bud Powell on Verve - Bud Powell | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
 - Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1176. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
 
