Jazz Giant
Jazz Giant | ||||
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Studio album by Bud Powell | ||||
Released | 1950 | |||
Recorded | February 23, 1949, February 1950 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 40:14 | |||
Label | Norgran / Verve | |||
Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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All About Jazz | (favorable)[2] |
Jazz Giant is a studio album by jazz pianist Bud Powell, released on Norgran in 1950, featuring two sessions that Powell recorded for Norman Granz in 1949 and 1950.
The album was remastered and re-released on CD in 2001 by Verve as a Verve Master Edition. The sessions also appear on The Complete Bud Powell on Verve (1994) box set.
History
The first session, with Ray Brown and Max Roach, took place on February 23, 1949 after Powell obtained a temporary release from Creedmoor State Hospital where he was receiving psychiatric treatment,[3] and represents his second recording date as leader (the first being his Roost session in 1947 – see Bud Powell Trio). The second, with Curley Russell and Roach, is from February 1950, post-dating his first Blue Note session for The Amazing Bud Powell.
Track listing
All songs were written by Bud Powell, except where noted.
- "Tempus Fugue-it" (aka "Tempus Fugit") – 2:29
- "Celia" – 3:01
- "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) – 3:39
- "I'll Keep Loving You" – 2:43
- "Strictly Confidential" – 3:10
- "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Bronislaw Kaper, Gus Kahn, Walter Jurmann) – 3:02
- "So Sorry Please" – 3:18
- "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:55
- "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar) – 3:40
- "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) – 2:51
- "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) – 2:53
- "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 3:12
- "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton) – 3:21
Personnel
Performance
February 23, 1949, tracks 1-6.
February 1950, tracks 7-13.
- Curley Russell – bass (except track 11 – Powell solo)
- Max Roach – drums (except track 11 – Powell solo)
Production
Release history
All of the tracks on Jazz Giant apart from "Cherokee" were first released in album form on two 10" LPs in 1950: Piano Solos and Piano Solos #2, the latter LP also having two tracks ("Tea for Two" and "Hallelujah!") from a separate session not on Jazz Giant.[4][5] "Cherokee" had only previously appeared as a single and on The Jazz Scene, a compilation album featuring various artists.[6]
Piano Solos 10" LP (MG 35012, MGC 102, MGC 502)
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- "Tempus Fugue-It" – 2:29
- "I'll Keep Loving You" – 2:43
- "Celia" – 3:01
- "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Kaper, Kahn, Jurmann) – 3:02
- "Yesterdays" (Kern, Harbach) – 2:53
- "Strictly Confidential" – 3:10
February 23, 1949, side A tracks 1-3,, side B tracks 1, 3.
- Ray Brown – bass
- Max Roach – drums
February 1950, side B track 2 – Powell solo.
Piano Solos #2 10" LP (MGC 507)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d0/Bud_Powell_-_Piano_Solos_2_MGC_507_%28album_cover%29.jpg/200px-Bud_Powell_-_Piano_Solos_2_MGC_507_%28album_cover%29.jpg)
- "So Sorry Please" – 3:18
- "April in Paris" (Duke, Harburg) – 3:13
- "Get Happy" (Arlen, Koehler) – 2:55
- "Tea For Two" – 3:49
- "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Pinkard, Casey) – 2:51
- "Body and Soul" (Green, Heyman, Sour, Eyton) – 3:24
- "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Youmans, Caesar) – 3:40
- "Hallelujah!" – 2:59
February 1950, side A tracks 1-3, side B tracks 1-3.
- Curley Russell – bass
- Max Roach – drums
July 1, 1950, side A track 4, side B track 4
- Ray Brown – bass
- Buddy Rich – drums
References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ All About Jazz review
- ^ Pullman, Peter (2001). Jazz Giant (Liner Notes). Bud Powell. USA: Verve Records. 543832.
- ^ Togashi, Nobuaki; Matsubayashi, Kohji; Hatta, Masayuki. "Bud Powell Discography (MG 35012)". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
- ^ Togashi, Nobuaki; Matsubayashi, Kohji; Hatta, Masayuki. "Bud Powell Discography (MGC 507)". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
- ^ Togashi, Nobuaki; Matsubayashi, Kohji; Hatta, Masayuki. "Bud Powell Discography (MGC 4007)". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
- v
- t
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or co-leader
- 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! (1957)
- Swingin' with Bud (1957)
- Bud Plays Bird (1957–58)
- Time Waits (1958)
- The Scene Changes (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)
- Relaxin' at Home, 61–64 (1961–64)
- Eternity (1961–64)
- The Invisible Cage (1964)
- Holidays in Edenville, 64 (1964)
- The Return of Bud Powell (1964)
- Award at Birdland, 64 (1964)
- Ups 'n Downs (c. 1965)
- 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)
and box sets
- Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 1: Early Years of a Genius, 44–48 (1944–48)
- 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)
- "Bouncing with Bud" (1946)
- "Tempus Fugue-it" (1949)
- "Parisian Thoroughfare" (1951)
- "Un Poco Loco" (1951)
- "Glass Enclosure" (1953)
- "Mediocre" (1955)
- "Bud on Bach" (1957)
- "Una Noche con Francis" (1964)
- Round Midnight (1986)