| Bud Powell in Paris | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Bud Powell |
| Cover: | Bud Powell in Paris (album cover).jpg |
| Released: | [1] |
| Recorded: | February 1963 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 49:21 |
| Label: | Reprise |
| Producer: | Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra |
| Prev Title: | Our Man in Paris |
| Prev Year: | 1963 |
| Next Title: | Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris |
| Next Year: | 1964 |
Bud Powell in Paris is a studio album by jazz pianist Bud Powell, recorded in Paris for Reprise in February 1963 and released in 1964.[2]
The album was produced by Duke Ellington with financial support from Frank Sinatra. Powell played the tune "Satin Doll" by ear after Ellington sang it to him during the session.[3]
Alternates and outtakes from the session were released by Mythic Sound on .[4]
In a review for AllMusic, Ron Wynn noted Powell's "uneven but often astonishing piano work," and wrote: "the vast majority of selections are performed with flair and conviction."
Writer Ira Gitler commented: "this album stands far above the painful Victors and Verves of the 1954–1956 period and is more like early Powell than the Blue Notes of the late fifties."[5]
A writer for Billboard stated that Powell plays "smoothly and most brightly," and is "capable of conveying the subtlest of jazz moods."[6]
Trevor Tolley of Coda remarked: "On 'How High the Moon' there is plenty of dash, but the fingering is not good... The record pointed to a decided decline."[7]