The Best of Bud Powell on Verve explained

The Best of Bud Powell on Verve
Type:	greatest
Artist:	Bud Powell
Cover:	BudPowell_TheBestOfBudPowellOnVerve.jpg
Released:	August 23, 1994
Recorded:	1949–1955
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	57:22
Label:	Verve
Producer:	Norman Granz, Leroy Lovett
Prev Title:	'Round About Midnight at the Blue Note
Prev Year:	1994
Next Title:	The Complete Bud Powell on Verve
Next Year:	1994

The Best of Bud Powell on Verve is a selection of jazz pianist Bud Powell's recordings for Verve Records, released on August 23, 1994.^[1]

The similarly-titled The Best of Bud Powell was released by Blue Note Records in 1989, and features tracks recorded from 1949-1963 on that label, with little overlap in song selection.^[2]

Track listing

All songs were written by Bud Powell, except where noted.

1. "Lady Bird" (Tadd Dameron) – 4:44
2. "Dance of the Infidels" – 2:16
3. "So Sorry, Please" – 3:14
4. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) – 2:48
5. "Willow Grove" (aka "Willow Groove") – 4:27
6. "Tempus Fugue-it" (aka "Tempus Fugit") – 2:25
7. "It Never Entered My Mind" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:56
8. "Bean and the Boys" (Contrafact of "Lover Come Back to Me") (Coleman Hawkins) – 3:38
9. "Celia" – 2:57
10. "Tea for Two" [78 take (take 10)] (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar) – 3:46
11. "Star Eyes" (Gene De Paul, Don Raye) – 3:28
12. "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 3:08
13. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:15
14. "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Bronislaw Kaper, Gus Kahn, Walter Jurmann) – 2:59
15. "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli, Mitchell Parish) – 4:58
16. "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 3:50
17. "Parisian Thoroughfare" (aka "Parisienne Thorofare") – 2:28

Personnel

Performance

Bud Powell plays piano on all tracks.

April 27, 1955, tracks 1, 11, 15. April 25, 1955, track 5.

• George Duvivier – bass
• Art Taylor – drums

January 13, 1955, track 2.

• Percy Heath – bass
• Kenny Clarke – drums

February 1950, tracks 3, 4, 12.

• Curly Russell – bass
• Max Roach – drums

February 23, 1949, tracks 6, 10, 14.

• Ray Brown – bass
• Max Roach – drums

June 4, 1954, track 7.

• Percy Heath – bass
• Art Taylor – drums

January 11, 1955, tracks 8, 13.

• Lloyd Trotman – bass
• Art Blakey – drums

July 1, 1950, track 9.

• Ray Brown – bass
• Buddy Rich – drums

February, 1951, tracks 16-17 – Powell solos.

Production

• Norman Granz – producer
• Max Harrison – liner notes
• Leroy Lovett – producer

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bud Powell : Discography : The Best of Bud Powell on Verve . . 2009-06-17 .
2. Web site: Bud Powell – The Best of Bud Powell (Blue Note) . . 2021-02-08 .