Blues in the Closet (Bud Powell album)
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Released | 1958 | |||
Recorded | September 23, 1956 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 38:15 | |||
Label | Verve | |||
Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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Blues in the Closet is a studio album by the jazz pianist Bud Powell.[2] Released in 1958 by Verve,[3] it contains a session that Powell recorded at Fine Sound Studios in New York in September 1956.
The album was released as a CD replica by Verve (Japan) in 2006 (POCJ-2744). The sessions (with alternate takes) are also available on The Complete Bud Powell on Verve (1994) CD box set.
History[]
This session is the last that Powell recorded for Verve, and re-unites him with Ray Brown for the first time (in the studio at least) since the first Verve sessions back in 1949-50. Fittingly, it ends with "52nd Street Theme", the traditional closing number in the heyday of bebop in the nineteen-forties.
Track listing 12" LP (MGV 8218)[]
- "When I Fall in Love" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 1:42
- "My Heart Stood Still" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:33
- "Blues in the Closet" (aka "Collard Greens and Black Eyed Peas") (Harry Babasin, Oscar Pettiford) – 3:04
- "Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home" (Pettiford) – 3:24
- "" (Vincent Youmans, Anne Caldwell) – 2:26
- "Elegy" (aka "Elogie") – 3:00
- "Woody 'n You" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:55
- "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 3:42
- "Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker) – 4:36
- "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Rodgers, Hart) – 4:02
- "Be-Bop" (Gillespie) – 2:27
- "52nd Street Theme" (Thelonious Monk) – 2:24
Personnel[]
Performance[]
September 23, 1956. Fine Sound Studios, New York.
Production[]
References[]
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Inc, Nielsen Business Media (February 24, 1958). "Review Spotlight on..." Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. – via Google Books.
- ^ Togashi, Nobuaki; Matsubayashi, Kohji; Hatta, Masayuki. "Bud Powell Discography (MGV 8218)". . Retrieved June 13, 2009.
Categories:
- Bud Powell albums
- 1958 albums
- Albums produced by Norman Granz
- Verve Records albums
- 1950s jazz album stubs