Released 1956 Length 38:26 Release date 1956 Label TP4 Music | Recorded April 25 & 27, 1955 Artist Bud Powell Producer Norman Granz Genre Jazz | |
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Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell
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Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell is a studio album by jazz pianist Bud Powell, released in 1956 by Norgran, featuring two sessions that Powell recorded at Fine Sound Studios in New York in April 1955.
Contents
The album was re-issued on LP by Verve (MGV 8167), and released as a CD replica by Verve (Japan) in 2006 (POCJ-2743). The sessions (with alternate takes) are also available on The Complete Bud Powell on Verve (1994) CD box set.
History
The album presents the April 25 master takes in full, apart from "Bean and the Boys" (the version here is from April 27). The April 27 session is split between this album and The Lonely One....
Track listing 12" LP (MGN 1077, MGV 8167)
- "Conception" (George Shearing) – 3:36
- "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman) – 3:55
- "Heart and Soul" (Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser) – 3:18
- "Willow Groove" (aka "Willow Grove") (Bud Powell) – 4:25
- "Crazy Rhythm" (Joseph Meyer, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Irving Caesar) – 3:36
- "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronnell) – 4:43
- "Bean and the Boys" (Coleman Hawkins) (contrafact of "Lover Come Back to Me") – 5:14
- "Lady Bird" (Tadd Dameron) – 4:44
- "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli, Mitchell Parish) – 4:55
Performance
April 25, 1955, side A tracks 1, 3-5 and side B track 1. April 27, 1955, side A track 2 and side B tracks 2-4. Fine Sound Studios, New York.
Production
Songs
1Conception3:34
2East Of The Sun3:53
3Heart And Soul3:17