Jazz Original
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| Studio album by Bud Powell | ||||
| Released | 1955 | |||
| Recorded | December 16, 1954, January 11 & 12, 1955 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 31:08 | |||
| Label | Norgran | |||
| Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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Jazz Original, also known as Bud Powell '57, is a studio album by jazz pianist Bud Powell, released in 1955 by Norgran, featuring sessions that Powell recorded at Fine Sound Studios in New York in 1954 and 1955.
The album was re-issued by Norgran as Bud Powell '57 in 1957, re-issued again on LP by Verve, and released on CD, also as Bud Powell '57, by Verve in 2005, all with the same track listing as the original LP. The sessions (with alternate takes) are also available on The Complete Bud Powell on Verve (1994) CD box set.
Uniquely (if one excludes the three tribute albums Bud Plays Bird, A Tribute to Cannonball, and A Portrait of Thelonious), there are no Powell compositions on the album, only jazz standards, and as the liner notes on the first Bud Powell '57 LP re-issue point out, standards from the 1920s in particular: "Someone to Watch Over Me" (1926), "Thou Swell" (1927), "Lover Come Back to Me" (1928), and "Deep Night" (1929).
"How High the Moon" is the sole track from the January 12, 1955 session – three other tracks from the session appear on Bud Powell's Moods.
December 16, 1954, Fine Sound Studios, New York, side A tracks 1–3
December 16, 1954, Fine Sound Studios, New York, side B track 1 January 11, 1955, Fine Sound Studios, New York, side A track 4 and side B tracks 2–4
January 12, 1955, Fine Sound Studios, New York, side B track 5
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