Jazz Giant
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| Jazz Giant | ||||
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| Released | 1950 | |||
| Recorded | February 23, 1949, February 1950 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 40:14 | |||
| Label | Norgran / Verve | |||
| Producer | Norman Granz | |||
| Bud Powell chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| All About Jazz | (favorable)[2] |
Jazz Giant is a studio album by jazz pianist Bud Powell, released on Norgran in 1950, featuring two sessions that Powell recorded for Norman Granz in 1949 and 1950.
The album was remastered and re-released on CD in 2001 by Verve as a Verve Master Edition. The sessions also appear on The Complete Bud Powell on Verve (1994) box set.
The first session, with Ray Brown and Max Roach, took place on February 23, 1949, after Powell obtained a temporary release from Creedmoor State Hospital where he was receiving psychiatric treatment,[3] and represents his second recording date as leader (the first being his Roost session in 1947 – see Bud Powell Trio). The second, with Curley Russell and Roach, is from February 1950, post-dating his first Blue Note session for The Amazing Bud Powell.
Track listing
All songs were written by Bud Powell, except where noted.
- "Tempus Fugue-it" (aka "Tempus Fugit") – 2:29
- "Celia" – 3:01
- "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) – 3:39
- "I'll Keep Loving You" – 2:43
- "Strictly Confidential" – 3:10
- "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Bronislaw Kaper, Gus Kahn, Walter Jurmann) – 3:02
- "So Sorry Please" – 3:18
- "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:55
- "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar) – 3:40
- "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) – 2:51
- "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) – 2:53
- "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 3:12
- "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton) – 3:21


