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Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 1: Early Years of a Genius, 44–48

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Released
  
1989

Label
  
Mythic Sound

Release date
  
1989

Recorded
  
1944-48

Artist
  
Bud Powell

Genre
  
Jazz

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Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 1: Early Years of a Genius, 44–48 is the first of eleven albums of Bud Powell material released by Francis Paudras on his Mythic Sound label. It features a selection of Powell's early work from 1944 to 1948.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Introduction by Canada Lee
  2. "West End Blues" (King Oliver)
  3. "Perdido" [incomplete] (Juan Tizol)
  4. "When My Baby Left Me" [incomplete] (Eddie Vinson, Cootie Williams)
  5. "Royal Garden Blues" (Spencer Williams, Clarence Williams) – 3:17
  6. "Roll 'Em" (Cootie Williams) – 2:54
  7. "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (Ella Fitzgerald, Van Alexander) – 2:49
  8. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 2:34
  9. "Smack Me" (a.k.a. "You Talk a Little Trash" and "The Boppers") (Cootie Williams) – 3:07
  10. "Air Mail Special" (a.k.a. "Good Enough to Keep") (Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Mundy)
  11. "One O'Clock Jump" [incomplete] (Count Basie)
  12. Introduction by Leonard Feather
  13. "Perdido" (Tizol)
  14. "Indiana" (James Hanley, Ballard MacDonald)

Personnel

  • Bud Powell – piano (all tracks)

    • Tracks 1-2. The Canada Lee Show, New York, July 4, 1944

  • Cootie Williams – trumpet
  • unknown – bass
  • Canada Lee – announcer

    • Tracks 3-5. Radio broadcast from the Apollo Theater or the Savoy Ballroom, New York, ca. January–May, 1944
    Tracks 6-11. AFRS "Jubilee" Broadcast, NBC Studios, Hollywood, May 1, 1944

  • Ermit V. Perry – trumpet
  • Tommy Stevenson – trumpet
  • George Treadwell – trumpet
  • Cootie Williams – trumpet
  • Lammar Wright – trumpet
  • Ed Burke – trombone
  • Ed Glover – trombone
  • Robert Horton – trombone
  • Frank Powell – alto sax
  • Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson – alto sax
  • Lee Pope – tenor sax
  • Sam "The Man" Taylor – tenor sax
  • Eddie de Verteuil – baritone sax
  • Leroy Kirkland – guitar
  • Carl Pruitt – bass
  • Sylvester "Vess" Payne – drums
  • Ella Fitzgerald – vocals (tracks 7-8 only)
  • unknown – announcer (New York only)
  • Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman – announcer (Hollywood only)

    • Tracks 12-14. Radio broadcast from the Royal Roost, New York, December 19, 1948

  • Benny Harris – trumpet
  • J.J. Johnson – trombone
  • Buddy DeFranco – clarinet
  • Lee Konitz – alto sax
  • Budd Johnson – tenor sax
  • Cecil Payne – baritone sax
  • Chuck Wayne – guitar
  • Nelson Boyd – bass
  • Max Roach – drums
  • Leonard Feather – announcer

    • References

    Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 1: Early Years of a Genius, 44–48 Wikipedia
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