TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Bud Powell
Bud Powell
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.1075
Bud Powell Album Rankings
1
This double LP, whose contents have since been reissued as part of a Verve CD box set, contains the cream of pianist Bud Powell's Verve recordings.
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2
The CD reissues of the two albums titledThe Amazing Bud Powellput the important recordings in chronological order (which they weren't in the LP versions) and add some alternate takes; all of the music
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3
Although pianist Bud Powell recorded some great albums elsewhere (most notably his first couple of sessions for Verve), on the whole his Blue Note records were his most significant and definitive.
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4
When approaching the work of pioneering bebop pianist Bud Powell, the most vexing question is where to start.
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5
These two CD volumes (all of the music has also been reissued on a definitive, "complete" Blue Note Bud Powell four-CD set) differ from the original two LPs in that, in addition to the inclusion of so
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6
Faced with the choice of any single Bud Powell date to aptly represent his intense musical genius, choosing Jazz Giant would not be a bad bet.
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11
Late Bud Powell! This is a CD of Bud Powell playing solo for a friend, a selection of consistent performances deficient mainly in the sound quality of the last couple tracks, as well as some occasion
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17
This five-CD deluxe set contains an impressive 150-page booklet and reissues every scrap of music that the innovative pianist Bud Powell recorded for Verve.
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22
Although serious fans and collectors will have little use for the disc, Ultimate Bud Powell is a solid collection of 12 highlights from the pianist's Verve recordings as selected by Chick Corea.
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30
Pianist Bud Powell's two recording sessions for Victor during 1956-57 resulted in 22 selections; this CD contains 18 of them.
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31
Powell with Mingus and drummer RoyHaynes at a D.C. club. Having a good night...
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32
Low-budget production values on this French recording but good Powell with tenor saxist JohnnyGriffin sitting in for a few.
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33
Bud Powell's two dates for RCA in 1956-57 are better than expected. Although troubled, Powell actually plays better here than on his Verves of the period.
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36
The immortal pianist Bud Powell's two RCA sets from 1956-57 have been unjustly neglected through the years.
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38
These informal performances find the great but ill-fated pianist Bud Powell playing a series of relaxed solos in Francis Paudras' apartment in Paris.
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40
Although Bud Powell's performance level could widely vary during the last few years of his life, this 1962 session in Copenhagen finds him in top form.
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51
Previously unissued until 1996, this trio session by pianist Bud Powell with bassist George Duvivier and drummer Art Taylor is better than his Verve recordings of the period if not quite up to the le
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54
Bud Powell changed the way that the piano is played in jazz, virtually inventing bebop-style piano.
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59
This compilation features Bud Powell in several different sessions between 1944 and 1947.
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62
Recorded between 1957 and 1964, Paris Sessions captures Bud Powell late in his career in a variety of settings, in the studio and live.
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