The Complete RCA Trio Sessions
2009 compilation album by Bud Powell
The Complete RCA Trio Sessions | ||||
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Compilation album by Bud Powell | ||||
Released | January 9, 2009 | |||
Recorded | October 5, 1956, February 11, 1957 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 79:20 | |||
Label | Essential Jazz | |||
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The Complete RCA Trio Sessions is a compilation album of the two sessions that jazz pianist Bud Powell recorded for RCA Victor in 1956-57, released in 2009 by Essential Jazz.
The sessions are available individually on the original RCA Victor releases Strictly Powell (1957) and Swingin' with Bud (1958).
Track listing
All songs were written by Bud Powell, except where noted.
- "There Will Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 3:39
- "Coscrane" – 3:44
- "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 3:20
- "Blues for Bessie" – 5:40
- "Time Was" (aka "Duerme" «Sleep») (Miguel Prado, Gabriel Luna, Bob Russell) – 3:07
- "Topsy Turvy" – 4:36
- "Lush Life" (Billy Strayhorn) – 2:53
- "Elegy" (aka "Elogie" and "Elegie") – 3:49
- "They Didn't Believe Me" (Jerome Kern) – 3:18
- "I Cover the Waterfront" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 2:32
- "Jump City" – 3:21
- "Another Dozen" (George Duvivier) – 3:30
- "Like Someone in Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 4:59
- "Salt Peanuts" (Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke) – 2:24
- "She" (George Shearing) – 5:11
- "Swedish Pastry" (Barney Kessel) – 3:19
- "Shaw 'Nuff" (Gillespie) – 3:18
- "Oblivion" – 2:34
- "In the Blue of the Evening" (Tom Adair, Alfonso d'Artega) – 3:27
- "Get It" – 3:08
- "Birdland Blues" – 4:22
- "Midway" – 3:09
Personnel
Performance
October 5, 1956 tracks 1-11. February 11, 1957 tracks 12-22. The Bud Powell Trio.
Production
- Charles Boldt – liner notes
References
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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.
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)