Blues in the Closet (Bud Powell album) explained

Blues in the Closet
Type:studio
Artist:Bud Powell
Cover:Bud Powell - Blues in the Closet (album cover).jpeg
Released:1958
Recorded:September 23, 1956
Genre:Jazz
Length:38:15
Label:Verve
Producer:Norman Granz
Prev Title:Bud!
Prev Year:1957
Next Title:Swingin' with Bud
Next Year:1958

Blues in the Closet is a studio album by the jazz pianist Bud Powell.[1] Released in 1958 by Verve,[2] it contains a session that Powell recorded at Fine Sound Studios in New York in September 1956.

The album was released as a CD replica by Verve (Japan) in 2006 (POCJ-2744). The sessions (with alternate takes) are also available on The Complete Bud Powell on Verve (1994) CD box set.

History

This session is the last that Powell recorded for Verve, and re-unites him with Ray Brown for the first time (in the studio at least) since the first Verve sessions back in 1949-50. Fittingly, it ends with "52nd Street Theme", the traditional closing number in the heyday of bebop in the nineteen-forties.

Track listing 12" LP (MGV 8218)

  1. "When I Fall in Love" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 1:42
  2. "My Heart Stood Still" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:33
  3. "Blues in the Closet" (aka "Collard Greens and Black Eyed Peas") (Harry Babasin, Oscar Pettiford) – 3:04
  4. "Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home" (Pettiford) – 3:24
  5. "I Know That You Know" (Vincent Youmans, Anne Caldwell) – 2:26
  6. "Elegy" (aka "Elogie") – 3:00
  7. "Woody 'n You" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:55
  8. "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 3:42
  9. "Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker) – 4:36
  10. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Rodgers, Hart) – 4:02
  11. "Be-Bop" (Gillespie) – 2:27
  12. "52nd Street Theme" (Thelonious Monk) – 2:24

Personnel

Performance

September 23, 1956. Fine Sound Studios, New York.

Production

Notes and References

  1. Review Spotlight on... Special Merit Jazz Albums . 18 . Billboard . February 24, 1958 . Nielsen Business Media, Inc. . Google Books.
  2. Web site: Togashi, Nobuaki . Matsubayashi, Kohji. Hatta, Masayuki . Bud Powell Discography (MGV 8218). . June 13, 2009 .

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