The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings

The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings
The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings
Box set by Bud Powell
Released	October 4, 1994
Recorded	1947–1963
Genre	Jazz
Label	Blue Note
Producer	Alfred Lion
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ReleasedOctober 4, 1994

Recorded1947–1963

GenreJazz

LabelBlue Note

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AllMusic	^[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]

The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings is a four-disc box set by American jazz pianist Bud Powell compiling his recordings as leader for Blue Note, and two early sessions for Roost, released by Blue Note on October 4, 1994.

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No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"I'll Remember April"	Gene de Paul Patricia Johnston Don Raye	January 10, 1947	2:54
2.	"(Back Home Again in) Indiana"	James F. Hanley Ballard MacDonald	January 10, 1947	2:45
3.	"Somebody Loves Me"	George Gershwin Ballard MacDonald B. G. De Sylva	January 10, 1947	2:56
4.	"I Should Care"	Axel Stordahl Paul Weston Sammy Cahn	January 10, 1947	3:02
5.	"Bud's Bubble"		January 10, 1947	2:36
6.	"Off Minor"	Thelonious Monk	January 10, 1947	2:24
7.	"Nice Work If You Can Get It"	George Gershwin Ira Gershwin	January 10, 1947	2:20
8.	"Everything Happens to Me"	Matt Dennis Tom Adair	January 10, 1947	2:41
9.	"Bouncing with Bud" (alternate take #1)	Gil Fuller Powell	August 9, 1949	3:03
10.	"Bouncing with Bud" (alternate take #2)	Fuller Powell	August 9, 1949	3:12
11.	"Bouncing with Bud"	Fuller Powell	August 9, 1949	3:01
12.	"Wail" (alternate take)		August 9, 1949	2:38
13.	"Wail"		August 9, 1949	3:02
14.	"Dance of the Infidels" (alternate take)		August 9, 1949	2:52
15.	"Dance of the Infidels"		August 9, 1949	2:50
16.	"52nd Street Theme"	Monk	August 9, 1949	2:45
17.	"You Go to My Head"	J. Fred Coots Haven Gillespie	August 9, 1949	3:11
18.	"Ornithology"	Benny Harris Charlie Parker	August 9, 1949	2:20
19.	"Ornithology" (alternate take)	Harris Parker	August 9, 1949	3:07
20.	"Un Poco Loco" (alternate take #1)		May 1, 1951	3:46
21.	"Un Poco Loco"		May 1, 1951	4:28
22.	"Un Poco Loco"		May 1, 1951	4:42
23.	"Over the Rainbow"	Harold Arlen E.Y. "Yip" Harburg	May 1, 1951	2:55

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"A Night in Tunisia"	Dizzy Gillespie Frank Paparelli	May 1, 1951	4:16
2.	"A Night in Tunisia" (alternate take)	Gillespie Paparelli	May 1, 1951	3:52
3.	"It Could Happen to You" (alternate take)	Jimmy Van Heusen Johnny Burke	May 1, 1951	2:22
4.	"It Could Happen to You"	Van Heusen Burke	May 1, 1951	3:16
5.	"Parisian Thoroughfare"		May 1, 1951	3:25
6.	"Autumn in New York"	Vernon Duke	August 14, 1953	2:51
7.	"Reets and I"	Benny Harris	August 14, 1953	3:18
8.	"Reets and I" (alternate take)	Harris	August 14, 1953	2:30
9.	"Sure Thing"	Jerome Kern Ira Gershwin	August 14, 1953	2:39
10.	"Collard Greens and Black-Eyed Peas" (alternate take)	Oscar Pettiford	August 14, 1953	2:11
11.	"Collard Greens and Black-Eyed Peas"	Pettiford	August 14, 1953	3:01
12.	"Polka Dots and Moonbeams"	Van Heusen Burke	August 14, 1953	4:00
13.	"I Want to Be Happy"	Vincent Youmans Irving Caesar	August 14, 1953	2:50
14.	"Audrey"		August 14, 1953	2:54
15.	"Glass Enclosure"		August 14, 1953	2:21
16.	"Embraceable You"	George Gershwin Ira Gershwin	September 1953	2:51
17.	"Burt Covers Bud"		September 1953	3:07
18.	"My Heart Stood Still"	Richard Rodgers Lorenz Hart	September 1953	3:20
19.	"You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To"	Cole Porter	September 1953	2:41
20.	"Bags' Groove"	Milt Jackson	September 1953	2:14
21.	"My Devotion"	Roc Hillman Johnny Napton	September 1953	3:05
22.	"Stella by Starlight"	Victor Young	September 1953	2:10
23.	"Woody 'n' You"	Dizzy Gillespie	September 1953	3:00

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Blue Pearl"		August 3, 1957	3:46
2.	"Blue Pearl" (alternate take)		August 3, 1957	4:03
3.	"Keepin' in the Groove"		August 3, 1957	2:53
4.	"Some Soul"		August 3, 1957	6:56
5.	"Frantic Fancies"		August 3, 1957	4:50
6.	"Bud on Bach"		August 3, 1957	2:30
7.	"Idaho"	Jesse Stone	August 3, 1957	5:14
8.	"Don't Blame Me"	Jimmy McHugh • Dorothy Fields	August 3, 1957	7:31
9.	"Moose the Mooche"	Parker	August 3, 1957	5:45
10.	"John's Abbey"		May 24, 1958	5:36
11.	"Sub City" (alternate take)		May 24, 1958	2:36
12.	"Sub City"		May 24, 1958	4:32
13.	"John's Abbey" (alternate take)		May 24, 1958	2:25
14.	"Buster Rides Again"		May 24, 1958	5:30

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Dry Soul"		May 24, 1958	6:41
2.	"Marmalade"		May 24, 1958	4:28
3.	"Monopoly"		May 24, 1958	4:47
4.	"Time Waits"		May 24, 1958	5:06
5.	"The Scene Changes"		December 28, 1958	3:59
6.	"Down with It"		December 28, 1958	3:58
7.	"Comin' Up" (alternate take)		December 28, 1958	5:26
8.	"Comin' Up"		December 28, 1958	7:54
9.	"Duid Deed"		December 28, 1958	5:06
10.	"Cleopatra's Dream"		December 28, 1958	4:22
11.	"Gettin' There"		December 28, 1958	5:01
12.	"Crossin' the Channel"		December 28, 1958	3:28
13.	"Danceland"		December 28, 1958	3:41
14.	"Borderick"		December 28, 1958	1:58
15.	"Like Someone in Love"	Van Heusen Burke	May 23, 1963	6:18

v t e Bud Powell
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	Bud Powell Trio (Roost, 1947–53) Jazz Giant/Piano Solos/Piano Solos, No.2 (1949–50) The Amazing Bud Powell (1949–51) The Genius of Bud Powell/Bud Powell's Moods (Mercury/Verve, 1950–51) Inner Fires (1953) The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2 (1953) Bud Powell's Moods (Norgran/Verve, 1956) Jazz Original/Bud Powell '57 (1954–55) The Lonely One... (1955) Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell (1955) Blues in the Closet (1956) Strictly Powell (1956) Bud! (1957) Swingin' with Bud (1957) Bud Plays Bird (1957–58) Time Waits (1958) The Scene Changes (1958) Bud in Paris (1959–60) The Essen Jazz Festival Concert (1960) A Portrait of Thelonious (1961) A Tribute to Cannonball (and Don Byas, 1961) 'Round About Midnight at the Blue Note (1961) At the Golden Circle (1962) Bouncing with Bud (1962) Americans in Europe (split album, 1963) Bud Powell in Paris (1963) Relaxin' at Home, 61–64 (1961–64) Eternity (1961–64) The Invisible Cage (1964) Holidays in Edenville, 64 (1964) The Return of Bud Powell (1964) Award at Birdland, 64 (1964) Ups 'n Downs (c. 1965)
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	Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 1: Early Years of a Genius, 44–48 (1944–48) The Best of Bud Powell on Verve (1949–55) The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings (1947–63) The Complete RCA Trio Sessions (1956–57) The Complete Bud Powell on Verve (1949–56)
Compositions	"Bouncing with Bud" (1946) "Tempus Fugue-it" (1949) "Parisian Thoroughfare" (1951) "Un Poco Loco" (1951) "Glass Enclosure" (1953) "Mediocre" (1955) "Bud on Bach" (1957) "Una Noche con Francis" (1964)
Related	Round Midnight (1986)

The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings

Personnel

Musicians

January 10, 1947

August 9, 1949

May 1, 1951

August 14, 1953

September 1953

August 3, 1957

May 24, 1958

December 28, 1958

May 23, 1963

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