Bud Powell Trio is a studio album by jazz pianist

Jazz piano

Jazz piano is a collective term for the techniques pianists use when playing jazz. The piano has been an integral part of the jazz idiom since its inception, in both solo and ensemble settings. Its role is multifaceted due largely to the instrument's combined melodic and harmonic capabilities...

 Bud Powell

Bud Powell

Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz pianist. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk...

, released on Roost

Roost Records

Roost Records was a record label established in 1949, primarily to record jazz, taking its secondary name from the New York club with which it was associated...

 in 1957, featuring two sessions that Powell recorded in 1947 and 1953. The 1947 session was Powell's first studio recording as leader, and was originally released as a 10" LP also called Bud Powell Trio (see Release history below).

The album was released on CD in 1990 by Roulette

Roulette Records

Roulette Records is an American record label, which was founded in late 1956, by George Goldner, Joe Kolsky, Morris Levy and Phil Khals, with creative control given to producers and songwriters Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore. Levy was appointed as director...

, which acquired Roost in 1958. The material is also available on The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings

The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings

The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings is a four-disc box set, released on October 4, 1994, containing the bulk of jazz pianist Bud Powell's recordings as leader for Blue Note Records, plus two early sessions for Roost Records.-Disc one:...

box set from Blue Note

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

.

Track listing

All songs were written by Bud Powell

Bud Powell

Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz pianist. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk...

, except where noted.

1. "I'll Remember April
   I'll Remember April (song)
   "I'll Remember April" is a popular song. The music for the song was written by Gene de Paul, and the lyrics were written by Patricia Johnston and Don Raye....
   
   " (Gene de Paul
   Gene de Paul
   Gene de Paul was an American pianist, composer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in New York City, he served in the United States Army during World War II....
   
   , Patricia Johnston, Don Raye
   Don Raye
   Don Raye , born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., in Washington, D.C., was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just For A Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."While known for...
   
   ) – 2:52
2. "Indiana
   Back Home Again in Indiana
   " Indiana" is a song composed by Ballard MacDonald and James F. Hanley, first published in January of 1917. While it is not the official state song of the U.S...
   
   " (James Hanley, Ballard MacDonald
   Ballard MacDonald
   Ballard MacDonald was a Tin Pan Alley lyricist.Born in Portland, Oregon, among his credits are:Beautiful Ohio, Rose of Washington Square, Second Hand Rose, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, Back Home Again in Indiana, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Play That Barbershop Chord, Clap Hands, Here Comes...
   
   ) – 2:44
3. "Somebody Loves Me
   Somebody Loves Me
   "Somebody Loves Me" is a popular song, with music written by George Gershwin, and lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and Buddy DeSylva. This is not to be confused with the Southern gospel song written by W.F. & Marjorie Crumley. The song was published in 1924 and featured in George White's Scandals of...
   
   " (George Gershwin
   George Gershwin
   George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
   
   , Ballard MacDonald, B. G. De Sylva) – 2:56
4. "I Should Care
   I Should Care
   "I Should Care" is a popular song by Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston and Sammy Cahn, published in 1944. The original recording by Ralph Flanagan and His Orchestra, with vocalists: Harry Prime and The Singing Winds was made at Manhattan Center, New York City, on July 18, 1952...
   
   " (Axel Stordahl
   Axel Stordahl
   Axel Stordahl was an arranger who was active from the late 1930s through the 1950s. He is perhaps best known for his work with Frank Sinatra in the 1940s at Columbia Records...
   
   , Paul Weston
   Paul Weston
   Paul Weston was an American pianist, arranger, composer and conductor. Weston was born Paul Wetstein in Springfield, Massachusetts...
   
   , Sammy Cahn
   Sammy Cahn
   Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...
   
   ) – 3:00
5. "Bud's Bubble" (based on "Little Benny" (Benny Harris
   Benny Harris
   Benny Harris was an American bebop trumpeter and composer.A self-taught musician, in the mid-1930s Benny Harris was already playing with Thelonious Monk. In later years, he participated to some of the jam sessions that gave birth to the bebop jazz style...
   
   )) – 2:34
6. "Off Minor" (Thelonious Monk
   Thelonious Monk
   Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer considered "one of the giants of American music". Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epistrophy", "'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser"...
   
   ) – 2:21
7. "Nice Work If You Can Get It
   Nice Work If You Can Get It (song)
   "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a popular song.The music was written by George Gershwin, the lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was one of nine songs George Gershwin wrote for the movie A Damsel in Distress, in which it was performed by Fred Astaire with backing vocals provided by The Stafford Sisters...
   
   " (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
   Ira Gershwin
   Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
   
   ) – 2:17
8. "Everything Happens to Me" (Matt Dennis
   Matt Dennis
   Matt Dennis was a singer, pianist, bandleader, arranger, and writer of music for popular music songs.He was born in Seattle, Washington. His mother was a violinist and his father a singer, and the family was in vaudeville, so he was early exposed to music. In 1933 he joined Horace Heidt's...
   
   , Tom Adair
   Tom Adair
   Thomas "Tom" Montgomery Adair was an American songwriter, composer, and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in Newton, Kansas, worked at a power company and the Saturday Evening Post, writing numerous poems, while penning the songs in his spare time. In 1941, Adair met Matt Dennis in a club and the duo...
   
   ) – 2:39
9. "Embraceable You
   Embraceable You
   "Embraceable You" is a popular song, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song was originally written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta named East is West. It was eventually published in 1930 and included in the Broadway musical Girl Crazy. where it was performed by...
   
   " (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:48
10. "Burt Covers Bud" – 3:05
11. "My Heart Stood Still
    My Heart Stood Still
    "My Heart Stood Still" is a 1927 popular song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart for the musical A Connecticut Yankee , where it was introduced by Constance Carpenter and William Gaxton.-Notable recordings:...
    
    " (Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers
    Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
    
    , Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz "Larry" Milton Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart...
    
    ) – 3:15
12. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
    You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
    "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" is a popular song written by Cole Porter, for the 1943 film Something to Shout About, where it was introduced by Janet Blair and Don Ameche. Dinah Shore had a major hit with the song at the time of its introduction...
    
    " (Cole Porter
    Cole Porter
    Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
    
    ) – 2:38
13. "Bags' Groove" (Milt Jackson
    Milt Jackson
    Milton "Bags" Jackson was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms...
    
    ) – 2:12
14. "My Devotion" (Roc Hillman, Johnny Napton) – 3:05
15. "Stella by Starlight
    Stella By Starlight
    "Stella by Starlight" is a jazz standard written by Victor Young and featured in The Uninvited, a 1944 film released by Paramount Pictures. Originally played in the film as an instrumental theme song without lyrics, it was turned over to Ned Washington, who wrote the lyrics for it in 1946...
    
    " (Victor Young
    Victor Young
    Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. He was born in Chicago.-Biography:...
    
    ) – 2:08
16. "Woody'n You" (Dizzy Gillespie
    Dizzy Gillespie
    John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...
    
    ) – 3:00

Performance

• Bud Powell
  Bud Powell
  Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz pianist. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk...
  
   plays piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
   on all tracks.

January 10, 1947, New York. Tracks 1-8.

• Curly Russell – bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• Max Roach
  Max Roach
  Maxwell Lemuel "Max" Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  

September 1953, New York. Tracks 9-16.

• George Duvivier
  George Duvivier
  George Duvivier was an American jazz double-bass player.Duvivier was born in New York City and took up the cello and also the violin while in high school before settling on the bass. He also learned composition and scoring before going out on the road with Lucky Millinder and then with the Cab...
  
   – bass
• Art Taylor
  Art Taylor
  Arthur S. Taylor, Jr. was an American jazz drummer of the hard bop school.After playing in the bands of Howard McGhee, Coleman Hawkins, Buddy DeFranco, Bud Powell, and George Wallington from 1948 to 1957, he formed his own group, the Wailers...
  
   – drums

Production

• Burt Goldblatt – cover design
  Graphic design
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• Brian Priestley
  Brian Priestley
  Brian Priestley is an English jazz writer, pianist and arranger.Priestley began studying music at age 8, and in the 1960s began arranging jazz pieces for the National Youth Jazz Orchestra and gained a degree in modern languages from Leeds University...
  
   – liner notes
  Liner notes
  Liner notes are the writings found in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.-Origin:...
  
  
• Teddy Reig – producer
  Record producer
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Release history

The 1947 session was originally recorded for De Luxe Records

De Luxe Records

De Luxe Records was a Linden, New Jersey, United States based record label formed in 1944 by brothers David and Jules Braun. The label flourished in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1947, Syd Nathan, the founder and owner of King Records, purchased a majority interest in De Luxe. In 1949, Nathan moved the...

but not released. Two years later Roost released the session in a series of four 78s: "Somebody Loves Me c/w Bud's Bubble" (Roost 509), "I'll Remember April c/w Off Minor" (Roost 513), "Indiana c/w Everything Happens To Me" (Roost 518), and "I Should Care c/w Nice Work If You Can Get It" (Roost 521), and released all 8 tracks as a 10" LP in 1951. The 1953 session was released directly as a 10" LP.

Bud Powell Trio 10" LP (RLP 401)

1. "Somebody Loves Me" (Gershwin, MacDonald, De Sylva) – 2:56
2. "Bud's Bubble" – 2:34
3. "Everything Happens to Me" (Dennis, Adair) – 2:49
4. "Indiana" (Hanley, MacDonald) – 2:44

1. "I'll Remember April" (de Paul, Johnston, Raye) – 2:52
2. "I Should Care" (Stordahl, Weston, Cahn) – 3:00
3. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 2:17
4. "Off Minor" (Monk) – 2:21

Bud Powell Trio, Volume 2 10" LP (RLP 412)

1. "My Heart Stood Still" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:15
2. "Embraceable You" (Gershwin, Gershwin) – 2:48
3. "Woody'n You" (Gillespie) – 3:00
4. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Porter) – 2:38

1. "Bags' Groove" (Jackson) – 2:12
2. "Stella by Starlight" (Young) – 2:08
3. "Burt Covers Bud" – 3:05
4. "My Devotion" (Hillman, Napton) – 3:05