Bud Powell discography

This is a discography of Bud Powell.

Discography

Studio albums

Roost & Blue Note years

Mercury & Verve years

Other labels

Live and home recordings

Notable compilations

• Tempus Fugue-It (Proper) – Four disc set, from 1944 recordings with Cootie Williams to the first sessions for Blue Note and Clef in 1949–50.
• The Complete Bud Powell on Verve – Five discs, sessions from 1949 to 1956.
• The Best of Bud Powell on Verve – Single disc compilation.
• The Best of Bud Powell (Blue Note) – Single disc compilation.
• The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings – Four disc set containing all of the Amazing Bud Powell... Blue Note sessions plus Roost sessions from 1947 and 1953. The Blue Note sessions have also been remastered and reissued as individual CDs (though the Roost material is not included).
• The Complete RCA Trio Sessions – Contains Swingin' with Bud and Strictly Powell.

As sideman

Dexter Gordon

• Dexter Rides Again (Savoy, 1958) – 1946 session only
• Our Man in Paris (Blue Note, 1963)

With others

• Art Blakey, Paris Jam Session (Fontana, 1959)
• J. J. Johnson, J. J. Johnson's Jazz Quintets (Savoy, 1950s) – 1946 session only
• Charles Mingus, Mingus at Antibes (Atlantic, 1976) – rec. 1960. plays on "I'll Remember April".
• Charlie Parker, One Night in Birdland (Columbia, 1977)
• Frank Socolow, New York Journeyman – Complete Recordings (Fresh Sound, 2005) – 1945 session only
• Sonny Stitt, Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J. J. Johnson (Prestige, 1957) – rec. 1949–1950
• Cootie Williams, Cootie Williams and His Orchestra 1941–1944 (Classics, 1995)

References