The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings

Box set by

Bud Powell

Released

October 4, 1994

Recorded

1947–1963

Jazz

Bud Powell chronology

The Best of Bud Powell on Verve
(1994)

The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings
(1994)

Bud Plays Bird
(1997)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]

The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings is a four-disc box set by American jazz pianist Bud Powell compiling his recordings as leader for Blue Note, and two early sessions for Roost, released by Blue Note on October 4, 1994.

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Track listing

All tracks are written by Bud Powell, except as noted.

Disc one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"I'll Remember April"	Gene de Paul Patricia Johnston Don Raye	January 10, 1947	2:54
2.	"(Back Home Again in) Indiana"	James F. Hanley Ballard MacDonald	January 10, 1947	2:45
3.	"Somebody Loves Me"	George Gershwin Ballard MacDonald B. G. De Sylva	January 10, 1947	2:56
4.	"I Should Care"	Axel Stordahl Paul Weston Sammy Cahn	January 10, 1947	3:02
5.	"Bud's Bubble"		January 10, 1947	2:36
6.	"Off Minor"	Thelonious Monk	January 10, 1947	2:24
7.	"Nice Work If You Can Get It"	George Gershwin Ira Gershwin	January 10, 1947	2:20
8.	"Everything Happens to Me"	Matt Dennis Tom Adair	January 10, 1947	2:41
9.	"Bouncing with Bud" (alternate take #1)	Gil Fuller Powell	August 9, 1949	3:03
10.	"Bouncing with Bud" (alternate take #2)	Fuller Powell	August 9, 1949	3:12
11.	"Bouncing with Bud"	Fuller Powell	August 9, 1949	3:01
12.	"Wail" (alternate take)		August 9, 1949	2:38
13.	"Wail"		August 9, 1949	3:02
14.	"Dance of the Infidels" (alternate take)		August 9, 1949	2:52
15.	"Dance of the Infidels"		August 9, 1949	2:50
16.	"52nd Street Theme"	Monk	August 9, 1949	2:45
17.	"You Go to My Head"	J. Fred Coots Haven Gillespie	August 9, 1949	3:11
18.	"Ornithology"	Benny Harris Charlie Parker	August 9, 1949	2:20
19.	"Ornithology" (alternate take)	Harris Parker	August 9, 1949	3:07
20.	"Un Poco Loco" (alternate take #1)		May 1, 1951	3:46
21.	"Un Poco Loco"		May 1, 1951	4:28
22.	"Un Poco Loco"		May 1, 1951	4:42
23.	"Over the Rainbow"	Harold Arlen E.Y. "Yip" Harburg	May 1, 1951	2:55

Disc two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"A Night in Tunisia"	Dizzy Gillespie Frank Paparelli	May 1, 1951	4:16
2.	"A Night in Tunisia" (alternate take)	Gillespie Paparelli	May 1, 1951	3:52
3.	"It Could Happen to You" (alternate take)	Jimmy Van Heusen Johnny Burke	May 1, 1951	2:22
4.	"It Could Happen to You"	Van Heusen Burke	May 1, 1951	3:16
5.	"Parisian Thoroughfare"		May 1, 1951	3:25
6.	"Autumn in New York"	Vernon Duke	August 14, 1953	2:51
7.	"Reets and I"	Benny Harris	August 14, 1953	3:18
8.	"Reets and I" (alternate take)	Harris	August 14, 1953	2:30
9.	"Sure Thing"	Jerome Kern Ira Gershwin	August 14, 1953	2:39
10.	"Collard Greens and Black-Eyed Peas" (alternate take)	Oscar Pettiford	August 14, 1953	2:11
11.	"Collard Greens and Black-Eyed Peas"	Pettiford	August 14, 1953	3:01
12.	"Polka Dots and Moonbeams"	Van Heusen Burke	August 14, 1953	4:00
13.	"I Want to Be Happy"	Vincent Youmans Irving Caesar	August 14, 1953	2:50
14.	"Audrey"		August 14, 1953	2:54
15.	"Glass Enclosure"		August 14, 1953	2:21
16.	"Embraceable You"	George Gershwin Ira Gershwin	September 1953	2:51
17.	"Burt Covers Bud"		September 1953	3:07
18.	"My Heart Stood Still"	Richard Rodgers Lorenz Hart	September 1953	3:20
19.	"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To"	Cole Porter	September 1953	2:41
20.	"Bags' Groove"	Milt Jackson	September 1953	2:14
21.	"My Devotion"	Roc Hillman Johnny Napton	September 1953	3:05
22.	"Stella by Starlight"	Victor Young	September 1953	2:10
23.	"Woody 'n' You"	Dizzy Gillespie	September 1953	3:00

Disc three
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Blue Pearl"		August 3, 1957	3:46
2.	"Blue Pearl" (alternate take)		August 3, 1957	4:03
3.	"Keepin' in the Groove"		August 3, 1957	2:53
4.	"Some Soul"		August 3, 1957	6:56
5.	"Frantic Fancies"		August 3, 1957	4:50
6.	"Bud on Bach"		August 3, 1957	2:30
7.	"Idaho"	Jesse Stone	August 3, 1957	5:14
8.	"Don't Blame Me"	Parker	August 3, 1957	7:31
9.	"Moose the Mooche"		August 3, 1957	5:45
10.	"John's Abbey"		May 24, 1958	5:36
11.	"Sub City" (alternate take)		May 24, 1958	2:36
12.	"Sub City"		May 24, 1958	4:32
13.	"John's Abbey" (alternate take)		May 24, 1958	2:25
14.	"Buster Rides Again"		May 24, 1958	5:30

Disc four
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Dry Soul"		May 24, 1958	6:41
2.	"Marmalade"		May 24, 1958	4:28
3.	"Monopoly"		May 24, 1958	4:47
4.	"Time Waits"		May 24, 1958	5:06
5.	"The Scene Changes"		December 28, 1958	3:59
6.	"Down with It"		December 28, 1958	3:58
7.	"Comin' Up" (alternate take)		December 28, 1958	5:26
8.	"Comin' Up"		December 28, 1958	7:54
9.	"Duid Deed"		December 28, 1958	5:06
10.	"Cleopatra's Dream"		December 28, 1958	4:22
11.	"Gettin' There"		December 28, 1958	5:01
12.	"Crossin' the Channel"		December 28, 1958	3:28
13.	"Danceland"		December 28, 1958	3:41
14.	"Borderick"		December 28, 1958	1:58
15.	"Like Someone in Love"	Van Heusen Burke	May 23, 1963	6:18

Personnel

Musicians

January 10, 1947

Bud Powell – piano
Curly Russell – bass
Max Roach – drums
- New York. Roost session – see Bud Powell Trio

August 9, 1949

Bud Powell – piano
Fats Navarro – trumpet (except "You Go to My Head" and "Ornithology")
Sonny Rollins – tenor sax (except "You Go to My Head" and "Ornithology")
Tommy Potter – bass
Roy Haynes – drums
- WOR Studios, New York. See The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1

May 1, 1951

Bud Powell – piano
Curly Russell – bass (except "Over the Rainbow" and "A Night in Tunisia")
Max Roach – drums (except "Over the Rainbow" and "A Night in Tunisia")
- WOR Studios, New York. See The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 and The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2

August 14, 1953

Bud Powell – piano
George Duvivier – bass
Art Taylor – drums
- WOR Studios, New York. See The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2

September 1953

Bud Powell – piano
George Duvivier – bass
Art Taylor – drums
- New York. Roost session – see Bud Powell Trio

August 3, 1957

Bud Powell – piano
Curtis Fuller – trombone (tracks 7-9)
Paul Chambers – bass (except track 6 – Powell solo)
Art Taylor – drums (except track 6 – Powell solo)
- Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey. See Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 3)

May 24, 1958

Bud Powell – piano
Sam Jones – bass
Philly Joe Jones – drums
- Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey. See Time Waits: The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 4)

December 28, 1958

Bud Powell – piano
Paul Chambers – bass
Art Taylor – drums
- Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey. See The Scene Changes: The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 5)

May 23, 1963

Bud Powell – piano
Pierre Michelot – bass
Kenny Clarke – drums
- CBS Studios, Paris. Disc 4, track 15. See Dexter Gordon's Our Man in Paris

References

^ Yanow, Scott (2011). "The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings - Bud Powell | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1179. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings at allmusic.com

v t e 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.
As leader or co-leader	Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 1: Early Years of a Genius, 44–48 (1944–48) Bud Powell Trio (Roost, 1947–53) Jazz Giant/Piano Solos/Piano Solos, No.2 (1949–50) The Amazing Bud Powell (1949–51) The Genius of Bud Powell/Bud Powell's Moods (Mercury/Verve, 1950–51) Inner Fires (1953) The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2 (1953) Bud Powell's Moods (Norgran/Verve, 1956) Jazz Original/Bud Powell '57 (1954–55) The Lonely One... (1955) Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell (1955) Blues in the Closet (1956) Strictly Powell (1956) Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 3) (1957) Swingin' with Bud (1957) Bud Plays Bird (1957–58) Time Waits: The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 4) (1958) The Scene Changes: The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 5) (1958) Bud in Paris (1959–60) The Essen Jazz Festival Concert (1960) A Portrait of Thelonious (1961) A Tribute to Cannonball (and Don Byas, 1961) 'Round About Midnight at the Blue Note (1961) At the Golden Circle (1962) Bouncing with Bud (1962) Americans in Europe (split album, 1963) Bud Powell in Paris (1963) The Invisible Cage (1964) Holidays in Edenville (1964) The Return of Bud Powell (1964)
With others	Cootie Williams and His Orchestra 1941–1944 (Cootie Williams, Classics, 1944) New York Journeyman – Complete Recordings (Frank Socolow, 1945) Dexter Rides Again (Dexter Gordon, 1946) J. J. Johnson's Jazz Quintets (1946) Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson (1949–50) One Night in Birdland (1950) Jazz at Massey Hall (Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Mingus, Max Roach, 1953) Mingus at Antibes (Charles Mingus, 1960) Paris Jam Session (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1959) Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (1963) Our Man in Paris (Dexter Gordon, 1963)
Compilations and Box-sets	The Best of Bud Powell on Verve (1949–55) The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings (1947–63) The Complete RCA Trio Sessions (1956–57) The Complete Bud Powell on Verve (1949–56)
Compositions	"Bouncing with Bud" (1946) "Tempus Fugue-it" (1949) "Parisian Thoroughfare" (1951) "Un Poco Loco" (1951) "Glass Enclosure" (1953)

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