Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell Volume 2 - French Pressing Jazz LP
LP

Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell Volume 2 1949 - 1953

Blue Note (French 1985 pressing BLP 1504)
DMM pressing
Vinyl VG++ no marks
Cover VG++ Slight ringwear ( see pic)

tracks:

Reets and i
Autumn in New York
I want to be happy
It could happen to you
Sure thing
Polka dots and moonbeams

Side two

Glass enclosure
Collard greens and black-eyed peas
Over the rainbow
Audrey
You go to my head
Ornithology (alt take)




Near half a century has passed since Bud Powell,George Duvivier and Art Taylor recorded this outstanding session of pure bop, and it's incredible.The music is always as fresh,surprising,and as passionnate as if it had just been played.This music will never be old.The great Rudy Van Gelder remastered the tracks for this new edition,and for the first time,the tunes appear in the order of the recording session.There are a lot of alternate tracks and unissued tracks.And great tunes : beautiful standards like "autumn in New York","I've got you under my skin",Oscar Pettiford's blues "collard greens and blackeyed peas",Little Benny Harris' "Reets and I", and Bud's own compositions,including the famous "glass enclosure",and the beautiful "Audrey".As a child,Bud was fascinated by Bach's music,and this is obvious in his playing.Too bad he never had the opportunity of recording Bach's repertoire,Glenn Gould would have been frightened ! What is there more to say about this album ? That it's one of the most important in the history of jazz ? Yes,of course.Bud was at his best at that time, and mastered all kinds of playing : fast boppish tunes, and very slow tempos on ballads.This is a record you'll play again and again


Bud Powell - Over The Rainbow

It gets so heartbreakingly sweet at 1:41... turns into a thunderstorm at the end, but not before the elegance of 2:11. I patterned so much of my playing after Bud. He's the G.O.A.T.!