Sunday, April 16, 2006

In walks Bud

If you don't own "The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume One," Blue Note, get
the new Rudy Van Gelder Edition. Like Bud wasn't enough, you go 11
tracks deep with Sonny Rollins and Fats Navarro as sidemen. Then you
have to "suffer" through nine trio pieces with Max Roach on drums. I
wouldn't want to live in a world where I couldn't listen to Bud Powell
play "You Go to My Head." And what he does with "Over the Rainbow" is not to be missed. Mr. Rollins, just a pup at this point, kills on the alternate take of "Wail." Massively classic.

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