Released 1958 Length 38:15 Artist Bud Powell Producer Norman Granz Genre Jazz | Recorded September 23, 1956 Blues in the Closet
(1956) Strictly Powell
(1956) Release date 1958 Label Verve Records | |
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Blues in the Closet is a studio album by the jazz pianist Bud Powell, released in 1958 by Verve, featuring a session that Powell recorded at Fine Sound Studios in New York in September 1956.
Contents
- Bud powell trio 1962 blues in the closet
- History
- Track listing 12 LP MGV 8218
- Performance
- Production
- Songs
- References
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.
Bud powell trio 1962 blues in the closet
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)
- "When I Fall in Love" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 1:42
- "My Heart Stood Still" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:33
- "Blues in the Closet" (aka "Collard Greens and Black Eyed Peas") (Harry Babasin, Oscar Pettiford) – 3:04
- "Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home" (Pettiford) – 3:24
- "I Know That You Know" (Vincent Youmans, Anne Caldwell) – 2:26
- "Elegy" (aka "Elogie") – 3:00
- "Woody 'n You" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:55
- "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 3:42
- "Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker) – 4:36
- "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Rodgers, Hart) – 4:02
- "Be-Bop" (Gillespie) – 2:27
- "52nd Street Theme" (Thelonious Monk) – 2:24
Performance
September 23, 1956. Fine Sound Studios, New York.
Production
Songs
1When I Fall in Love1:40
2My Heart Stood Still3:32
3Blues in the Closet3:02