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Released
  
1957

Length
  
39:59

Release date
  
1957

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
October 5, 1956

Artist
  
Bud Powell

Label
  
RCA Records

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Strictly Powell (1956)
  
Swingin' with Bud (1957)

Similar
  
Bud Powell albums, Jazz albums

Strictly Powell is a studio album by jazz pianist Bud Powell, released in 1957 by RCA Victor, featuring a session Powell recorded in 1956.

Contents

The album was remastered and released on CD by BMG Japan in 1994, and re-issued by RCA in 1995. The session is also available on The Complete RCA Trio Sessions.

History

This is the first of Powell's two sessions for RCA Victor. There are four new Powell compositions (not counting "Elegy" which two weeks previously had been recorded as "Elogie" for his final Verve session, released on Blues in the Closet), and in the original LP liner notes Leonard Feather marks out "Blues for Bessie" as "the most remarkable ... a completely spontaneous improvisation from start to finish". Concerning "Elegy", Feather notes that it "scales up and down little ladders of fourths".

Track listing

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

  1. "There Will Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 3:39
  2. "Coscrane" – 3:44
  3. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 3:20
  4. "Blues for Bessie" – 5:40
  5. "Time Was" (aka "Duerme" «Sleep») (Miguel Prado, Gabriel Luna, Bob Russell) – 3:07
  1. "Topsy Turvy" – 4:36
  2. "Lush Life" (Billy Strayhorn) – 2:53
  3. "Elegy" (aka "Elogie" and "Elegie") – 3:49
  4. "They Didn't Believe Me" (Jerome Kern) – 3:18
  5. "I Cover the Waterfront" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 2:32
  6. "Jump City" – 3:21

Performance

October 5, 1956, New York. The Bud Powell Trio.

  • Bud Powell – piano
  • George Duvivier – bass
  • Art Taylor – drums

    • Production

  • Burt Goldblatt – cover design & photo
  • Ikuyoshi Hirakawa – producer (1994 CD release)
  • Leonard Feather – liner notes
  • Cliff Preiss – liner notes (1995 CD release)
  • Tohru Kotetsu – remastering (1994 CD release)

    • Songs

    1There Will Never Be Another You3:41
    2Coscrane3:45
    3Over the Rainbow3:22

    References

    Strictly Powell Wikipedia
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