Bud Powell discography

This is a discography of Bud Powell.

Discography

Studio albums

Roost & Blue Note years

Year	Label	Catalogue number	Title	Date recorded	Notes
1951	Royal Roost	RLP-401	The Bud Powell Trio, Vol. 1	1947–53	10"; reissued as Bud Powell Trio
1952	Blue Note	BLP 5003	The Amazing Bud Powell	1949-08-08, 1951-05-01	10"
1954	Blue Note	BLP 5041	The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2	1953-08-14	10"
1956	Blue Note	BLP 1503	The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 1	1949-08-08, 1951-05-01, 1953-08-14	compiles BLP 5003 & BLP 5041
1956	Blue Note	BLP 1504	The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 2	1949-08-08, 1951-05-01, 1953-08-14	compiles BLP 5003 & BLP 5041
1957	Roost	RLP 2224	Bud Powell Trio	1947–53
1957	Blue Note	BLP 1571	Bud!	1957-08-03	AKA The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 3
1958	Blue Note	BLP 1598	Time Waits	1958-05-24	AKA The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 4
1959	Blue Note	BLP 4009	The Scene Changes	1958-12-29	AKA The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 5
1997	Roulette / Blue Note^[1]		Bud Plays Bird	1957-10-14, -12-02, 1958-01-30

Mercury & Verve years

Year	Label	Catalogue number	Title	Date recorded	Notes
1950	Mercury / Clef	MG C-102	Bud Powell Piano Solos	1949–50	10"; originally released on three shellac discs
1952	Mercury / Clef	MG C-507	Bud Powell Piano Solos (No. 2)	1949–50	10"; originally released on three shellac discs
1954	Mercury / Clef	MG C-610	Bud Powell's Moods	1950–51	Reissued as The Genius of Bud Powell
1954	Norgran	MG N-23	The Artistry of Bud Powell	1954–55	10"; reissued as Bud Powell's Moods
1955	Norgran	MGN 1017	Jazz Original	1954-12-16, 1955-01-11, -12	Reissued as Bud Powell '57
1956	Verve^[2]	MGV 8115	The Genius of Bud Powell	1950-07-01, 1951-02	Reissue of Bud Powell's Moods
1956	Norgran	MGN 1063	Jazz Giant	1949–50	reissued on Verve in 1957
1956	Verve	MGV 8153	Jazz Giant	1949–50	reissued on Verve in 1957
1956	Norgran	MGN 1064	Bud Powell's Moods	1954-06-02, -04, 1955-01-12
1956	Verve	MGV 8154	Bud Powell's Moods	1954-06-02, -04, 1955-01-12
1956	Norgran	MGN 1077	Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell	1955-04-25, -27
1956	Verve	MGV 8167	Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell	1955-04-25, -27
1957	Norgran	MGN 1098	Bud Powell '57	1954-12-16, 1955-01-11, -12	Reissue of Jazz Original
1957	Verve	MGV 8185	Bud Powell '57	1954-12-16, 1955-01-11, -12	Reissue of Jazz Original
1959	Verve	MGV 8301	The Lonely One...	1955-01-13, -04-25, -27
1958	Verve	MGV 8218	Blues in the Closet	1956-09-23

Other

Year	Label	Title	Date recorded	Notes
1957	RCA Victor^[3]	Strictly Powell	1956-10-05
1958	RCA Victor^[4]	Swingin' with Bud	1957-02-11
1965	Columbia^[5]	A Portrait of Thelonious	1961
1979	Columbia^[5]	A Tribute to Cannonball	1961
1962	Sonet / Storyville	Bouncing with Bud	1962-04-26	AKA In Copenhagen
1964	Reprise^[6]	Bud Powell in Paris	1963
1964	Fontana/Black Lion^[7]	The Invisible Cage	1964	AKA Blues for Bouffemont
1964	Roulette	The Return of Bud Powell	1964-09-18
1973	Mainstream	Ups 'n Downs	1964–1966

Live and home recordings

Year	Label	Title	Date recorded	Notes
1953	Debut	Jazz at Massey Hall	1953	10"; live; with The Quintet (Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Max Roach)
1953	Debut	Jazz at Massey Hall, Vol. 2	1953	10"; live
1963	Impulse!	Americans in Europe, Vol. 1	1963
1963	Impulse!	Americans in Europe, Vol. 2	1963
	ESP-Disk	Winter Broadcasts 1953	1953
	ESP-Disk	Spring Broadcasts 1953	1953
	ESP-Disk	Summer Broadcasts 1953	1953
	ESP-Disk	Autumn Broadcasts 1953	1953
	Queen Disc [Italy]	Live at Birdland	1953
1975	Xanadu	Bud in Paris	1959–60
	Moon [Italy]^[8]	Pianology	1961
	Stretch Archives	Bud Powell Live in Lausanne 1962	1962
	Norma [Japan]	Bud Powell Live in Geneva	1962
1978	SteepleChase^[9]	Bud Powell Trio at the Golden Circle, Vol. 1	1962
		Bud Powell Trio at the Golden Circle, Vol. 2
		Bud Powell Trio at the Golden Circle, Vol. 3
		Bud Powell Trio at the Golden Circle, Vol. 4
		Bud Powell Trio at the Golden Circle, Vol. 5
	SteepleChase	Budism	1962
	SteepleChase	1962 Copenhagen	1962
	SteepleChase	1962 Stockholm-Oslo	1962
1982	Elektra/Musician	Inner Fires	1953	E1-60030
	Fontana	Bud Powell at Home – Strictly Confidential	1962–64
	Fontana	Hot House	1964
1988	Black Lion	The Essen Jazz Festival Concert	1960
1989	Mythic Sound	Early Years of a Genius, 44–48	1944–48	AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 1
1989	Mythic Sound	Burnin' in U.S.A., 53–55	1953–55	AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 2
1989	Mythic Sound	Cookin' at Saint-Germain, 57–59	1957–59	AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 3
1989	Mythic Sound	Relaxin' at Home, 61–64	1961–64	AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 4
1989	Mythic Sound	Groovin' at the Blue Note, 59–61	1959–61	AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 5
1989	Mythic Sound	Writin' for Duke, 63	1963	AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 6
1989	Mythic Sound	Tribute to Thelonious, 64	1964	AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 7
1989	Mythic Sound	Holidays in Edenville, 64	1964	AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 8
1989	Mythic Sound	Return to Birdland, 64	1964	AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 9
1989	Mythic Sound	Award at Birdland, 64	1964	AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 10
1989	Mythic Sound	Gift for the Friends, 60–64	1960–64	AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 11
1994	Dreyfus Jazz	'Round About Midnight at the Blue Note	1962
2004	Piadrum	Eternity	1961–64

Notable compilations

Tempus Fugue-It (Proper) – Four disc set, from 1944 recordings with Cootie Williams to the first sessions for Blue Note and Clef in 1949–50.
The Complete Bud Powell on Verve – Five discs, sessions from 1949 to 1956.
The Best of Bud Powell on Verve – Single disc compilation.
The Best of Bud Powell (Blue Note) – Single disc compilation.
The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings – Four disc set containing all of the Amazing Bud Powell... Blue Note sessions plus Roost sessions from 1947 and 1953. The Blue Note sessions have also been remastered and reissued as individual CDs (though the Roost material is not included).
The Complete RCA Trio Sessions – Contains Swingin' with Bud and Strictly Powell.

As sideman

With Art Blakey

Paris Jam Session (Fontana, 1959)

With Dexter Gordon

Dexter Rides Again (Savoy, 1946 session only)
Our Man in Paris (Blue Note, 1963)

References

^ October & December 1957 and January 1958 sessions only released in 1997.
^ July 1950 session in trio; February 1951 session solo. Mercury MGC 610 (Clef MGC 610 / Clef MGC 739 and, as The Genius of Bud Powell, Verve 8115) Not to be confused with the Norgran release Bud Powell's Moods.
^ October 1956 session, RCA Victor LPM 1423.
^ February 1957 session, RCA Victor LPM 1507.
^ ^a ^b December 1961 session in Paris, produced by Cannonball Adderley.
^ February 1963 session in Paris, produced by Duke Ellington.
^ "Bud Powell Discography". www.jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
^ April 1961 live recording in Milan, Italy (Moon MCD 055-2). The album is split between the Powell session and unrelated 1966–70 European sessions by Thelonious Monk.
^ April 1962 live recordings at the Gyllene Cirkeln, Stockholm, Sweden. With Torbjörn Hultcrantz on bass, and Sune Spångberg on drums. 5 volumes available as individual discs. Rare Powell vocals on "This Is No Laughin' Matter".

[1] October & December 1957 and January 1958 sessions only released in 1997.

[2] July 1950 session in trio; February 1951 session solo. Mercury MGC 610 (Clef MGC 610 / Clef MGC 739 and, as The Genius of Bud Powell, Verve 8115) Not to be confused with the Norgran release Bud Powell's Moods.

[3] October 1956 session, RCA Victor LPM 1423.

[4] February 1957 session, RCA Victor LPM 1507.

[ReferenceA-5] December 1961 session in Paris, produced by Cannonball Adderley.

[6] February 1963 session in Paris, produced by Duke Ellington.

[7] "Bud Powell Discography". www.jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 2023-12-21.

[8] April 1961 live recording in Milan, Italy (Moon MCD 055-2). The album is split between the Powell session and unrelated 1966–70 European sessions by Thelonious Monk.

[9] April 1962 live recordings at the Gyllene Cirkeln, Stockholm, Sweden. With Torbjörn Hultcrantz on bass, and Sune Spångberg on drums. 5 volumes available as individual discs. Rare Powell vocals on "This Is No Laughin' Matter".

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Discography

Studio albums

Roost & Blue Note years

Mercury & Verve years

Other

Live and home recordings

Notable compilations

As sideman

With Art Blakey

With Dexter Gordon

With J. J. Johnson

With Charles Mingus

With Charlie Parker

With Frank Socolow

With Sonny Stitt

With Cootie Williams

References