1994 compilation album by Bud Powell
The Complete Bud Powell on Verve is a five-disc box set, released on September 27, 1994, by Verve Records , containing all of jazz pianist Bud Powell 's recordings as leader for producer Norman Granz .
All songs were written by Bud Powell, except where noted.
"Tempus Fugue-it " (aka "Tempus Fugit") – 2:25
"Celia" – 2:57
"Cherokee " (Ray Noble ) – 3:37
"I'll Keep Loving You" – 2:40
"Strictly Confidential" – 3:08
"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Bronislaw Kaper , Gus Kahn , Walter Jurmann ) – 2:59
"So Sorry, Please" – 3:14
"Get Happy " (Harold Arlen , Ted Koehler ) – 2:51
"Sometimes I'm Happy " (Vincent Youmans , Irving Caesar ) – 3:36
"Sweet Georgia Brown " (Maceo Pinkard , Kenneth Casey ) – 2:48
"Yesterdays " (Jerome Kern , Otto Harbach ) – 2:49
"April in Paris " (Vernon Duke , E.Y. "Yip" Harburg ) – 3:08
"Body and Soul " (Johnny Green , Edward Heyman , Robert Sour , Frank Eyton ) – 3:20
"Hallelujah!" (Youmans, Leo Robin , Clifford Grey ) – 2:58
"Tea for Two " [compilation take (take 6)] (Youmans, Caesar) – 4:13
"Tea for Two" [common take (take 5)] (Youmans, Caesar) – 3:29
"Tea for Two" [78 take (take 10)] (Youmans, Caesar) – 3:46
"Parisian Thoroughfare" (aka "Parisienne Thorofare") – 2:28
"Oblivion" – 2:08
"Dusk in Sandi" (aka "Dusky 'n' Sandy") – 2:13
"Hallucinations" (aka "Budo") – 2:25
"The Fruit" – 3:16
"A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square " (Manning Sherwin , Jack Strachey , Eric Maschwitz ) – 3:41
"Just One of Those Things " (Cole Porter ) – 3:50
"The Last Time I Saw Paris " (Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II ) – 3:18 "Moonlight in Vermont " (Karl Suessdorf , John Blackburn ) – 3:35
"Spring Is Here " (Richard Rodgers , Lorenz Hart ) – 3:27
"Buttercup" – 2:59
"Fantasy in Blue" – 3:04
"It Never Entered My Mind " (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:56
"A Foggy Day " (George Gershwin , Ira Gershwin ) – 3:45
"Time Was" (aka "Duerme" «Sleep») (Miguel Prado , Gabriel Luna, Bob Russell ) – 4:17
"My Funny Valentine " (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:53
"Like Someone in Love " [incomplete] (Jimmy Van Heusen , Johnny Burke ) – 1:39
"Like Someone in Love" (Van Heusen, Burke) – 2:00
"Deep Night " (Charles E. Henderson , Rudy Vallée ) – 3:45
"That Old Black Magic " [incomplete] (Harold Arlen , Johnny Mercer ) – 0:55
"That Old Black Magic [alternate take 1] (Arlen, Mercer) – 2:27
"That Old Black Magic (Arlen, Mercer) – 2:21
"That Old Black Magic [alternate take 2] (Arlen, Mercer) – 2:54
"'Round Midnight " (Thelonious Monk ) – 5:08 "Thou Swell " [alternate take] (Richard Rodgers , Lorenz Hart ) – 4:06
"Thou Swell" (Rodgers, Hart) – 4:29
"Someone to Watch Over Me " (George Gershwin , Ira Gershwin ) – 2:33
"Bean and the Boys " (contrafact of "Lover Come Back to Me ") (Coleman Hawkins ) – 3:36
"Tenderly " [incomplete] (Walter Gross , Jack Lawrence ) – 0:23
"Tenderly" (Gross, Lawrence) – 3:20
"How High the Moon " (Morgan Lewis , Nancy Hamilton ) – 4:23
"I Get a Kick out of You " [incomplete] (Cole Porter ) – 0:35
"I Get a Kick out of You" (Porter) – 4:26
"I Get a Kick out of You" [alternate take] (Porter) – 3:58
"The Best Thing for You (Would Be Me) " [incomplete] (Irving Berlin ) – 1:29
"You Go to My Head " (J. Fred Coots , Haven Gillespie ) – 4:11
"The Best Thing for You (Would Be Me)" (aka "The Best") (Berlin) – 2:41
"Mediocre" – 2:55
"All the Things You Are " (Jerome Kern , Oscar Hammerstein II ) – 3:30
"Epistrophy " (Thelonious Monk , Kenny Clarke ) – 3:00
"Dance of the Infidels" – 2:16
"Salt Peanuts " (Dizzy Gillespie , Clarke) – 2:19
"Hey George" (aka "Sweet Georgia Brown ") (Maceo Pinkard , Kenneth Casey ) – 3:25 "Conception" [incomplete] (George Shearing ) – 0:09
"Conception" (Shearing) – 3:45
"Bean and the Boys " [incomplete] (Coleman Hawkins ) – 0:28
"Bean and the Boys " (Hawkins) – 4:04
"Heart and Soul " (Hoagy Carmichael , Frank Loesser ) – 2:52
"Heart and Soul" [alternate take 1] (Carmichael, Loesser) – 2:31
"Heart and Soul" [alternate take 2] (Carmichael, Loesser) – 3:22
"Willow Grove" (aka "Willow Groove") [alternate take] – 3:17
"Willow Grove" (aka "Willow Groove") – 4:27
"Crazy Rhythm " (Joseph Meyer , Roger Wolfe Kahn , Irving Caesar ) – 3:32
"Willow Weep for Me " (Ann Ronnell ) – 4:40
"Bean and the Boys " (Hawkins) – 5:24
"East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) " [alternate take] (Brooks Bowman ) – 3:48
"East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" [incomplete] (Bowman) – 0:30
"East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Bowman) – 3:58
"Lady Bird " [alternate take 1] (Tadd Dameron ) – 3:11
"Lady Bird" [incomplete] (Dameron) – 0:18
"Lady Bird" [alternate take 2] (Dameron) – 3:38
"Stairway to the Stars " [incomplete] (Matty Malneck , Frank Signorelli , Mitchell Parish ) – 0:05
"Stairway to the Stars" (Malneck, Signorelli, Parish) – 5:01
"Lady Bird" (Dameron) – 4:44 "Lullaby in Rhythm" [incomplete] (Clarence Profit , Edgar Sampson , Benny Goodman , Walter Hirsch ) – 0:28
"Lullaby in Rhythm" (Profit, Sampson, Goodman, Hirsch) – 4:00
"Star Eyes " [alternate take 1] (Gene De Paul , Don Raye ) – 3:18
"Star Eyes" [alternate take 2] (De Paul, Raye) – 3:14
"Star Eyes" [alternate take 3] (De Paul, Raye) – 3:52
"Star Eyes" [incomplete] (De Paul, Raye) – 0:29
"Star Eyes" [alternate take 4] (De Paul, Raye) – 3:54
"Star Eyes" (De Paul, Raye) – 3:31
"Confirmation " (Charlie Parker ) – 4:21
"When I Fall in Love " (Victor Young , Edward Heyman ) – 1:39
"My Heart Stood Still " (Richard Rodgers , Lorenz Hart ) – 3:29
"Blues in the Closet" (aka "Collard Greens and Black Eyed Peas") (Harry Babasin , Oscar Pettiford ) – 3:01
"Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home" (Pettiford) – 3:21
"I Know That You Know" (Vincent Youmans , Anne Caldwell ) – 2:23
"Elegy" (aka "Elegie" and "Elogie") – 2:56
"Woody 'n' You " (Dizzy Gillespie ) – 3:52
"I Should Care " (Sammy Cahn , Axel Stordahl , Paul Weston ) – 3:38
"Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker ) – 4:32
"I Didn't Know What Time It Was " (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:58
"Be-Bop" (Gillespie) – 2:23
"52nd Street Theme " (Thelonious Monk ) – 2:23 Bud Powell plays piano on all tracks.
February 23, 1949, disc 1, tracks 1-6. See Jazz Giant .
February 1950, disc 1, tracks 7-13. See Jazz Giant .
Curly Russell – bass (except track 11 – Powell solo)
Max Roach – drums (except track 11 – Powell solo) July 1, 1950, disc 1, tracks 14-17. See The Genius of Bud Powell .
February 1951, disc 1, tracks 18-25 – Powell solos. See The Genius of Bud Powell .
June 2, 1954, disc 2, tracks 1-4. See Bud Powell's Moods .
June 4, 1954, disc 2, tracks 5-8. See Bud Powell's Moods .
December 16, 1954, disc 2, tracks 9-16. See Jazz Original .
Percy Heath – bass (except track 10 – Powell solo)
Max Roach - drums (except tracks 9-10) January 11, 1955, disc 3, tracks 1-6. January 12, 1955, disc 3, tracks 7-13. See Jazz Original and Bud Powell's Moods .
January 13, 1955, disc 3, tracks 14-19. See The Lonely One... .
April 25, 1955, disc 4, tracks 1-11. April 27, 1955, disc 4, tracks 12-21 and disc 5, tracks 1-9. See Piano Interpretations and The Lonely One... .
George Duvivier – bass
Art Taylor - drums September 13, 1956, disc 5, tracks 10-21. See Blues in the Closet .
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. Because Powell's discography features albums with the same title, record labels are identified to avoid any confusion.
As leader or co-leader With others
Cootie Williams and His Orchestra 1941–1944 (Cootie Williams , Classics , 1944)
New York Journeyman – Complete Recordings (Frank Socolow , 1945)
Dexter Rides Again (Dexter Gordon , 1946)
J. J. Johnson's Jazz Quintets (1946)
Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson (1949–50)
One Night in Birdland (1950)
Jazz at Massey Hall (Dizzy Gillespie , Charlie Parker , Mingus, Max Roach , 1953)
Mingus at Antibes (Charles Mingus , 1960)
Paris Jam Session (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers , 1959)
Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (1963)
Our Man in Paris (Dexter Gordon, 1963)
Compilations and box sets Compositions Related