Released 1955 Artist Bud Powell Producer Norman Granz Genre Jazz | Length 31:08 Release date 1955 Label Norgran Records | |
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Recorded December 16, 1954, January 11 & 12, 1955 Jazz Original
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Jazz Original, also known as Bud Powell '57, is a studio album by jazz pianist Bud Powell, released in 1955 by Norgran, featuring sessions that Powell recorded at Fine Sound Studios in New York in 1954 and 1955.
Contents
The album was re-issued by Norgran as Bud Powell '57 in 1957, re-issued again on LP by Verve, and released on CD, also as Bud Powell '57, by Verve in 2005, all with the same track listing as the original LP. The sessions (with alternate takes) are also available on The Complete Bud Powell on Verve (1994) CD box set.
History
Uniquely (if one excludes the three tribute albums Bud Plays Bird, A Tribute to Cannonball, and A Portrait of Thelonious), there are no Powell compositions on the album, only jazz standards, and as the liner notes on the first Bud Powell '57 LP re-issue point out, standards from the 1920s in particular: "Someone to Watch Over Me" (1926), "Thou Swell" (1927), "Lover Come Back to Me" (1928), and "Deep Night" (1929).
"How High the Moon" is the sole track from the January 12, 1955 session – three other tracks from the session appear on Bud Powell's Moods.
Track listing
- "Deep Night" (Charles E. Henderson, Rudy Vallée) – 3:44
- "That Old Black Magic" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:20
- "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) – 5:08
- "Thou Swell" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 4:25
- "Like Someone in Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 1:59
- "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:28
- "Bean and the Boys" (Coleman Hawkins a contrafact of Lover Come Back to Me) – 3:28
- "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:20
- "How High the Moon" (Morgan Lewis, Nancy Hamilton) – 4:16
Performance
December 16, 1954, Fine Sound Studios, New York, side A tracks 1–3
December 16, 1954, Fine Sound Studios, New York, side B track 1 January 11, 1955, Fine Sound Studios, New York, side A track 4 and side B tracks 2–4
January 12, 1955, Fine Sound Studios, New York, side B track 5