Bud Powell

Bud Powell was a jazz pianist of rare talent, perhaps unique in his ability to inject vocal inflections into his improvisational playing. He reached a peak by the late 1940s although sadly by the 1950s he seemed to be succumbing to the mental illness that had plagued him all his life.

Unexpectedly his career had a sporadic revival after he moved to France in 1959. Cared for by a friend, Bud Powell still proved capable of giving performances occasionally as brilliantly fluent as his finest from the 1940s. One of these performances were immortalized on this recording from Jazzhus Montmartre in 1962.

PERSONNEL:

• Bud Powell - (piano)
• Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - (bass)
• William Schiöpffe - (drums)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Rifftide
• A2. Bouncing With Bud
• A3. Move
• A4. The Best Thing For You

• SIDE B
• B1. Straight, No Chaser
• B2. I Remember Clifford
• B3. Hot House
• B4. 52nd Street Theme