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Bud Powell

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Aliases
Bud Powell's Modernists
Bud Powell Trio
Real name
Earl Rudolph Powell
Born
September 27, 1924
Died
July 31, 1966
Country
United States
IPI
00053090897 34 works
00217914272 13 works
Affiliation
BMI
Comments
Bebop pianist and composer
Member of
The Be Bop Boys Piano
Family
Richie Powell Brother
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Originals

Title Performer Release date Covered by
i 1957 (12 artists)
i 1959 (4 artists)
i 1957 (2 artists)
i 1958 (3 artists)
i 1950 (49 artists)
i 1959 (21 artists)
i 1959 (4 artists)
i 1959 (3 artists)
i 1950 (33 artists)
i 1959 (10 artists)
i 1959 (2 artists)
i 1953 (10 artists)
i 1957 Per Henrik Wallin Trio
i 1959 (2 artists)
i 1950 (43 artists)
i 1964 (3 artists)
i 1958 (8 artists)
i Marmalade Bud Powell 1958 Unverified
i 1958 (3 artists)
i 1953 (35 artists)
listen on Internet Archive i  REC 1950 (90 artists)
Originally by Thelonious Monk REL
i 1953 (58 artists)
i 1951 (6 artists)
i 1950 (19 artists)
i 1950 (19 artists)
i 1958 (2 artists)
i 1950 (34 artists)
i 1953 (15 artists)
i 1959 Joshua Breakstone
i 1958 (5 artists)
i 1957 Franck Avitabile Trio
i 1964 (2 artists)
i 1951 (58 artists)
i April 1952 (20 artists)
i 1956 (3 artists)

Covers by Bud Powell

Title Performer Release date Originally by
i 1958 Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra
i 1950 Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra
i   1950 Ivie Anderson BRD, Dick McDonough and Carl Kress Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Barry McKinley REC
i   September 1959 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Stanley Worth REC, Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, Ralph Stuart PRF
i   1979 Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Stanley Worth REC, Hiram Sherman, Frances Mercer, Hollace Shaw, Ralph Stuart PRF
i All the Things You Are Quintet 1953 Unverified
i   1953 Judy Campbell PRF, Vera Lynn REC
i April 1952 Dizzy Gillespie
i 1960 Dizzy Gillespie
i   1950 Evelyn Hoey PRF, Marion Chase REL
i 1953 The Milt Jackson Quintet
i 1996 Charlie Parker All Stars
i 1956 Coleman Hawkins and Orch.
i   1996 Charlie Parker [US1] REC, Curtis Counce REL
i 1996 Charley Parker's Ree Boppers
i 1958 Oscar Pettiford and His Jazz All Stars
i 1960 Oscar Pettiford and His Jazz All Stars
i 1950 Jack Hylton and His Orchestra
i 1963 Jack Hylton and His Orchestra
i April 1952 Sonny Stitt
i 1960 Sonny Stitt
i March 1950 Clyde Hart's Hot Seven
i 1996 Charley Parker
i 1953 Spud Murphy and His Orchestra
i December 1949 Spud Murphy and His Orchestra
i 1979 Spud Murphy and His Orchestra
i 1956 George Shearing Quintet
i 1996 Dizzy Gillespie Jazzmen
i September 1959 Dizzy Gillespie Jazzmen
i   1956 Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra REC,REL, Ben Bernie, Peggy Chamberlain, June O'Dea PRF
i 1960 Bud Powell's Modernists
i 1963 Joel Mossberg
i 1955 Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees
i 1996 Charlie Parker Quintet
i   1957 Walter Woolf King PRF, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Vocal Chorus by Carmen Lombardo REC,REL
i   1956 Tom Coakley and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Carl Ravazza REC, The Princeton University Triangle Club PRF
i   1953 Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns PRF, Majestic Dance Orchestra [Lou God] - Vocal Chorus Irving Kaufman REC
i September 1959 Thelonious Monk
listen on Internet Archive i November 1950 Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Harry Babbitt
i 1979 Dizzy Gillespie and His All Stars
i Hallelujah Bud Powell Trio 1951 Unverified
i   1953 Miles Davis and His Orchestra PRF,REC,REL
i 1962 Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker - Sydney Catlett - Al Haig - Curly Russell
i Hot House Quintet 1953 Unverified
i   1955 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Helen Forrest REC, Frances Comstock & Alfred Drake PRF
i   1963 Bob Hope PRF, Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Skinny Ennis REC
i 1957 Abe Lyman and His California Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Gracie Barrie
i   1958 Marcy Westcott and Richard Kollmar PRF, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Louise Tobin REC,REL
i   1958 Beatrice Lillie PRF, Sam Lanin and His Orchestra REC
listen on Internet Archive i   1950 Woody Herman and His Orchestra REC, Dick Foran BRD
i   1972 (unknown), Harry Fox REC,REL,PRF
listen on Internet Archive i November 1950 George J. Gaskin, Knickerbocker Male Quartette
i 1957 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Frank Sinatra
i 1979 Don Byrd - Gigi Gryce
i   1950 Bob Allen and The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra BRD, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bonnie Lou Williams and The Sentimentalists REC
i   1951 Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and His Orchestra REC, Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REL, Fred MacMurray & Dorothy Lamour BRD
i 1954 Shirley Ross
i   1951 Phyllis Cleveland and Skeets Gallagher PRF, Carl Fenton's Orchestra (Walter Haenschen) REC
i   1979 Cannonball Adderley Quintet REL, Donald Byrd REC
i 1960 Bud Powell
i 1963 Duke Jordan Trio
i   1953 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Stuart Allen REC,REL, June Knight & Charles Walters PRF
i   1979 Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Orch. - Vocal Refrain by Stuart Allen REC,REL, June Knight & Charles Walters PRF
i 1996 Charlie Parker's Ri Bop Boys
i 1956 The Tadd Dameron Sextet
i   1955 Dinah Shore PRF, Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REC
i   1955 Evelyn Herbert PRF, Victor Arden-Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Male Quartet REC
i   September 1959 Benny Goodman and His Orchestra REL, Benny Goodman REC
i 1953 George Shearing Quintet
i   1957 King Cole and His Trio - Orch. cond. by Pete Rugolo REL, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra REC
i 1972 John Coltrane
i February 1965 The Thelonious Monk Quintet
i 1954 Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra - Vocal by Margaret Whiting
i Moonlight in Vermont Bud Powell 1955 Unverified
i 1996 Charlie Parker Septet
i 1957 Charlie Parker Septet
i 1953 (unknown)
i   1954 Fairchild and Carroll and Their Orchestra REL, Mitzi Green PRF
i   1953 Jessie Matthews PRF, Ambrose and His Mayfair Orchestra REC
i   1950 Fred Astaire BRD, Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Johnny Morris REC
i Night In Tunisia Quintet 1953 Unverified
i 1958 Charley Parker's Ree Boppers
i   February 1965 Bud Powell Trio REC, Thelonious Monk REL
i April 1952 Charlie Parker Septet
i April 1952 Judy Garland
i Perdido Quintet 1953 Unverified
i Polka Dots and Moon Beams Bud Powell Trio 1953 Unverified
i 1964 Charlie Parker All Stars
i 1955 Cootie Williams and His Orchestra
i February 1965 The Thelonious Monk Trio
i 1957 Auld-Hawkins-Webster Saxtet
i 1960 Auld-Hawkins-Webster Saxtet
i Salt Peanuts Quintet 1953 Unverified
i 1963 Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
i 1996 Charlie Parker Quintet
i 1957 Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker - Sydney Catlett - Al Haig - Curly Russell
i   March 1950 Winnie Lightner PRF, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra REL
i   1955 Gertrude Lawrence REC,REL,PRF
i   1954 Leo Reisman and His Orchestra REC,REL, Dennis King & Vivienne Segal PRF
i 1956 Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra
i   September 1959 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Choruses by Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen REL, Stephane Grappelly and His Quartet - With George Shearing at the Piano (Vocalist : Beryl Davis) REC, Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly with Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra BRD
i   1953 Victor Young and His Concert Orchestra - Ray Turner at the Piano REC,REL, Victor Young and His Orchestra BRD
i   1951 Max Hoffman PRF, Victor Arden-Phil Ohman and Their Orchestra with Vocal Refrain REC,REL
i 1957 Stan Hasselgard and His All Star Six
i 1950 Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
i 1951 Ethel Waters
i   1953 Helen Clark–Lewis James REC, Phyllis Cleveland and Jack Barker PRF
i 1955 Dick Farney - Orchestrated and conducted by Paul Baron
i 1955 Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
i   1953 Kate Smith REC, Ann Sothern BRD
i February 1965 The Thelonious Monk Sextet
i 1957 John Payne & Joan Merrill
i 1957 Julia Sanderson and Donald Brian
i   1955 Broadway Nitelites - Vocal Chorus by Franklyn Baur REC,REL, William Gaxton & Constance Carpenter PRF
i 1954 Cuarteto Caney canto por Juanito y Machito
i 1953 Coleman Hawkins' 52nd Street All Stars
i 1958 Victor Young
i 1956 Ted Fiorito & His Orchestra
i 1960 Ted Fiorito & His Orchestra
i 1996 Charlie Parker Septet
i   1950 Fay Templeton PRF, Leo Reisman and His Orchestra REC,REL
i   1953 Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Harry Cool REC, Dinah Shore with Orchestra conducted by Paul Wetstein REL
i April 1952 Larry Clinton and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Bea Wain

Songs written by Bud Powell

Original songs

Title Written by Originally by Original date Covered by
Blue Pearl Bud Powell Bud Powell August 3, 1957 Covered by (12 artists)
Borderick Bud Powell Bud Powell December 29, 1958 Covered by (4 artists)
Bouncing with Bud Bud Powell, Gil Fuller Sonny Stitt August 23, 1946 Covered by (64 artists)
Budo Bud Powell Miles Davis and His Orchestra PRF,REC,REL September 1948 Covered by (47 artists)
Bud on Bach Bud Powell Bud Powell August 3, 1957 Covered by (2 artists)
Buster Rides Again Bud Powell Bud Powell 1958 Covered by (3 artists)
Celia Bud Powell Bud Powell January 1949 Covered by (49 artists)
Cleopatra's Dream Bud Powell Bud Powell December 29, 1958 Covered by (21 artists)
Comin' Up Bud Powell Bud Powell December 29, 1958 Covered by (4 artists)
Danceland Bud Powell Bud Powell December 29, 1958 Covered by (3 artists)
Dance of the Infidels Bud Powell Bud Powell's Modernists August 8, 1949 Covered by (33 artists)
Down with It Bud Powell Bud Powell December 29, 1958 Covered by (10 artists)
Duid Deed Bud Powell Bud Powell December 29, 1958 Covered by (2 artists)
Dusk at Saudi Bud Powell Bud Powell February 1951 Covered by (10 artists)
Elogie Bud Powell Bud Powell October 5, 1956 Covered by Per Henrik Wallin Trio
Gettin' There Bud Powell Bud Powell December 29, 1958 Covered by (2 artists)
Glass Enclosure Bud Powell Jack Wilson with Philly Joe Jones & Leroy Vinnegar 1964 Covered by (11 artists)
I'll Keep Loving You Bud Powell Bud Powell 1949 Covered by (43 artists)
In the Mood for a Classic Bud Powell Bud Powell 1964 Covered by (3 artists)
John's Abbey Bud Powell Bud Powell 1958 Covered by (8 artists)
Marmalade Bud Powell Bud Powell 1958 Unverified
Monopoly Bud Powell Bud Powell 1958 Covered by (3 artists)
Oblivion Bud Powell Bud Powell February 1951 Covered by (35 artists)
Parisian Thoroughfare Bud Powell Bud Powell February 1951 Covered by (58 artists)
Scene Changes Bud Powell Bud Powell December 29, 1958 Covered by Joshua Breakstone
So Sorry, Please Bud Powell Bud Powell February 1950 Covered by (19 artists)
Strictly Confidential Bud Powell Bud Powell 1949 Covered by (19 artists)
Sub City Bud Powell Bud Powell 1958 Covered by (2 artists)
Tempus Fugit Bud Powell Bud Powell Trio 1949 Covered by (34 artists)
The Fruit Bud Powell Bud Powell 1953 Covered by (15 artists)
Time Waits Bud Powell Bud Powell 1958 Covered by (5 artists)
Topsy Turvy Bud Powell Bud Powell October 5, 1956 Covered by Franck Avitabile Trio
Una noche con Francis Bud Powell Bud Powell 1964 Covered by (2 artists)
Un poco loco Bud Powell Bud Powell Trio May 1, 1951 Covered by (58 artists)
Wail Bud Powell Bud Powell August 9, 1949 Covered by (20 artists)
Webb City Bud Powell The Be Bop Boys September 6, 1946 Covered by (20 artists)
Willow Groove Bud Powell Bud Powell April 25, 1955 Covered by (3 artists)

Releases

Albums

Title Performer Release date Label
A Portrait of Thelonious Bud Powell February 1965 Columbia [US]
A Tribute to Cannonball Don Byas/Bud Powell 1979 Columbia [US]
Blues for Bouffemont Bud Powell 1964 Fontana
Blues in the Closet Bud Powell Trio 1958 Verve Records
Bouncing With Bud Bud Powell Trio 1962 Sonet
Bud! Bud Powell 1957 Blue Note
Bud Plays Bird Bud Powell Trio 1996 Blue Note
Bud Powell's Moods Bud Powell 1953 Mercury
In Paris Bud Powell 1963 Reprise Records
Jazz at Massey Hall - Volume Three Quintet 1953 Debut
Jazz at Massey Hall - Volume Two Bud Powell Trio 1953 Debut
Jazz Original Bud Powell 1955 Norgran Records
Paris Jam Session Art Blakey, Bud Powell, Barney Wilen and The Jazz Messengers 1960 Fontana
Piano Interpretations Bud Powell 1956 Norgran Records
Piano Solos Bud Powell 1950 Mercury
Sonny Stitt and Bud Powell Sonny Stitt and Bud Powell 1951 Prestige [US]
Strictly Powell Bud Powell 1957 RCA Victor
Swingin' with Bud Bud Powell Trio 1957 RCA Victor
The Amazing Bud Powell Bud Powell Trio 1953 Roost [Royal Roost]
The Amazing Bud Powell Bud Powell April 1952 Blue Note
The Amazing Bud Powell - The Scene Changes Bud Powell 1959 Blue Note
The Artistry of Bud Powell Bud Powell 1954 Norgran Records
The Essen Jazz Festival All Stars Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, Oscar Pettiford, Kenny Clarke 1960 Debut [DK]
The Lonely One... Bud Powell September 1959 Verve Records
Time Waits - The Amazing Bud Powell Bud Powell 1958 Blue Note
Ups 'n Downs Bud Powell 1972 Mainstream Records

Performances also appear on

Title Performer Release date Label
The Jazz Scene various artists December 1949 Mercury

Tributes

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