The Best of Bud Powell on Verve

Track listing

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

1. "Lady Bird" (Tadd Dameron) – 4:44
2. "Dance of the Infidels" – 2:16
3. "So Sorry, Please" – 3:14
4. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) – 2:48
5. "Willow Grove" (aka "Willow Groove") – 4:27
6. "Tempus Fugue-it" (aka "Tempus Fugit") – 2:25
7. "It Never Entered My Mind" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:56
8. "Bean and the Boys" (Contrafact of "Lover Come Back to Me") (Coleman Hawkins) – 3:38
9. "Celia" – 2:57
10. "Tea for Two" [78 take (take 10)] (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar) – 3:46
11. "Star Eyes" (Gene De Paul, Don Raye) – 3:28
12. "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 3:08
13. "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:15
14. "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Bronislaw Kaper, Gus Kahn, Walter Jurmann) – 2:59
15. "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli, Mitchell Parish) – 4:58
16. "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 3:50
17. "Parisian Thoroughfare" (aka "Parisienne Thorofare") – 2:28

Performance

Bud Powell plays piano on all tracks.

April 27, 1955, tracks 1, 11, 15. April 25, 1955, track 5.

January 13, 1955, track 2.

February 1950, tracks 3, 4, 12.

February 23, 1949, tracks 6, 10, 14.

June 4, 1954, track 7.

January 11, 1955, tracks 8, 13.

July 1, 1950, track 9.

February, 1951, tracks 16-17 – Powell solos.

Production