# The Complete Bud Powell on Verve

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The Complete Bud Powell on Verve is a five-disc box set, released on September 27, 1994, by Verve Records, containing all of jazz pianist Bud Powell's recordings as leader for producer Norman Granz.

## Track listing

All songs were written by Bud Powell, except where noted.

### Disc one

* "Tempus Fugue-it" (aka "Tempus Fugit") – 2:25
* "Celia" – 2:57
* "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) – 3:37
* "I'll Keep Loving You" – 2:40
* "Strictly Confidential" – 3:08
* "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Bronislaw Kaper, Gus Kahn, Walter Jurmann) – 2:59
* "So Sorry, Please" – 3:14
* "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:51
* "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar) – 3:36
* "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) – 2:48
* "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) – 2:49
* "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 3:08
* "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton) – 3:20
* "Hallelujah!" (Youmans, Leo Robin, Clifford Grey) – 2:58
* "Tea for Two" [compilation take (take 6)] (Youmans, Caesar) – 4:13
* "Tea for Two" [common take (take 5)] (Youmans, Caesar) – 3:29
* "Tea for Two" [78 take (take 10)] (Youmans, Caesar) – 3:46
* "Parisian Thoroughfare" (aka "Parisienne Thorofare") – 2:28
* "Oblivion" – 2:08
* "Dusk in Sandi" (aka "Dusky 'n' Sandy") – 2:13
* "Hallucinations" (aka "Budo") – 2:25
* "The Fruit" – 3:16
* "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Manning Sherwin, Jack Strachey, Eric Maschwitz) – 3:41
* "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 3:50
* "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:18

### Disc two

* "Moonlight in Vermont" (Karl Suessdorf, John Blackburn) – 3:35
* "Spring Is Here" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:27
* "Buttercup" – 2:59
* "Fantasy in Blue" – 3:04
* "It Never Entered My Mind" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:56
* "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:45
* "Time Was" (aka "Duerme" «Sleep») (Miguel Prado, Gabriel Luna, Bob Russell) – 4:17
* "My Funny Valentine" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:53
* "Like Someone in Love" [incomplete] (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 1:39
* "Like Someone in Love" (Van Heusen, Burke) – 2:00
* "Deep Night" (Charles E. Henderson, Rudy Vallée) – 3:45
* "That Old Black Magic" [incomplete] (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 0:55
* "That Old Black Magic [alternate take 1] (Arlen, Mercer) – 2:27
* "That Old Black Magic (Arlen, Mercer) – 2:21
* "That Old Black Magic [alternate take 2] (Arlen, Mercer) – 2:54
* "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) – 5:08

### Disc three

* "Thou Swell" [alternate take] (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 4:06
* "Thou Swell" (Rodgers, Hart) – 4:29
* "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:33
* "Bean and the Boys" (contrafact of "Lover Come Back to Me") (Coleman Hawkins) – 3:36
* "Tenderly" [incomplete] (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 0:23
* "Tenderly" (Gross, Lawrence) – 3:20
* "How High the Moon" (Morgan Lewis, Nancy Hamilton) – 4:23
* "I Get a Kick out of You" [incomplete] (Cole Porter) – 0:35
* "I Get a Kick out of You" (Porter) – 4:26
* "I Get a Kick out of You" [alternate take] (Porter) – 3:58
* "The Best Thing for You (Would Be Me)" [incomplete] (Irving Berlin) – 1:29
* "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 4:11
* "The Best Thing for You (Would Be Me)" (aka "The Best") (Berlin) – 2:41
* "Mediocre" – 2:55
* "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:30
* "Epistrophy" (Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke) – 3:00
* "Dance of the Infidels" – 2:16
* "Salt Peanuts" (Dizzy Gillespie, Clarke) – 2:19
* "Hey George" (aka "Sweet Georgia Brown") (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) – 3:25

### Disc four

* "Conception" [incomplete] (George Shearing) – 0:09
* "Conception" (Shearing) – 3:45
* "Bean and the Boys" [incomplete] (Coleman Hawkins) – 0:28
* "Bean and the Boys" (Hawkins) – 4:04
* "Heart and Soul" (Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser) – 2:52
* "Heart and Soul" [alternate take 1] (Carmichael, Loesser) – 2:31
* "Heart and Soul" [alternate take 2] (Carmichael, Loesser) – 3:22
* "Willow Grove" (aka "Willow Groove") [alternate take] – 3:17
* "Willow Grove" (aka "Willow Groove") – 4:27
* "Crazy Rhythm" (Joseph Meyer, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Irving Caesar) – 3:32
* "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronnell) – 4:40
* "Bean and the Boys" (Hawkins) – 5:24
* "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" [alternate take] (Brooks Bowman) – 3:48
* "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" [incomplete] (Bowman) – 0:30
* "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Bowman) – 3:58
* "Lady Bird" [alternate take 1] (Tadd Dameron) – 3:11
* "Lady Bird" [incomplete] (Dameron) – 0:18
* "Lady Bird" [alternate take 2] (Dameron) – 3:38
* "Stairway to the Stars" [incomplete] (Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli, Mitchell Parish) – 0:05
* "Stairway to the Stars" (Malneck, Signorelli, Parish) – 5:01
* "Lady Bird" (Dameron) – 4:44

### Disc five

* "Lullaby in Rhythm" [incomplete] (Clarence Profit, Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman, Walter Hirsch) – 0:28
* "Lullaby in Rhythm" (Profit, Sampson, Goodman, Hirsch) – 4:00
* "Star Eyes" [alternate take 1] (Gene De Paul, Don Raye) – 3:18
* "Star Eyes" [alternate take 2] (De Paul, Raye) – 3:14
* "Star Eyes" [alternate take 3] (De Paul, Raye) – 3:52
* "Star Eyes" [incomplete] (De Paul, Raye) – 0:29
* "Star Eyes" [alternate take 4] (De Paul, Raye) – 3:54
* "Star Eyes" (De Paul, Raye) – 3:31
* "Confirmation" (Charlie Parker) – 4:21
* "When I Fall in Love" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 1:39
* "My Heart Stood Still" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:29
* "Blues in the Closet" (aka "Collard Greens and Black Eyed Peas") (Harry Babasin, Oscar Pettiford) – 3:01
* "Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home" (Pettiford) – 3:21
* "I Know That You Know" (Vincent Youmans, Anne Caldwell) – 2:23
* "Elegy" (aka "Elegie" and "Elogie") – 2:56
* "Woody 'n' You" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:52
* "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 3:38
* "Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker) – 4:32
* "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:58
* "Be-Bop" (Gillespie) – 2:23
* "52nd Street Theme" (Thelonious Monk) – 2:23

## Personnel
### Performance

Bud Powell plays piano on all tracks.
February 23, 1949, disc 1, tracks 1-6. See Jazz Giant.
* Ray Brown – bass (except track 4 – Powell solo)
* Max Roach – drums (except track 4 – Powell solo)
February 1950, disc 1, tracks 7-13. See Jazz Giant.
* Curly Russell – bass (except track 11 – Powell solo)
* Max Roach – drums (except track 11 – Powell solo)
July 1, 1950, disc 1, tracks 14-17. See The Genius of Bud Powell.
* Ray Brown – bass
* Buddy Rich - drums
February 1951, disc 1, tracks 18-25 – Powell solos. See The Genius of Bud Powell.
June 2, 1954, disc 2, tracks 1-4. See Bud Powell's Moods.
* George Duvivier – bass
* Art Taylor - drums
June 4, 1954, disc 2, tracks 5-8. See Bud Powell's Moods.
* Percy Heath – bass
* Art Taylor - drums
December 16, 1954, disc 2, tracks 9-16. See Jazz Original.
* Percy Heath – bass (except track 10 – Powell solo)
* Max Roach - drums (except tracks 9-10)
January 11, 1955, disc 3, tracks 1-6. January 12, 1955, disc 3, tracks 7-13. See Jazz Original and Bud Powell's Moods.
* Lloyd Trotman – bass
* Art Blakey - drums
January 13, 1955, disc 3, tracks 14-19. See The Lonely One....
* Percy Heath – bass
* Kenny Clarke - drums
April 25, 1955, disc 4, tracks 1-11. April 27, 1955, disc 4, tracks 12-21 and disc 5, tracks 1-9. See Piano Interpretations and The Lonely One....
* George Duvivier – bass
* Art Taylor - drums
September 13, 1956, disc 5, tracks 10-21. See Blues in the Closet.
* Ray Brown – bass
* Osie Johnson - drums

### Production

* Norman Granz – producer
* Peter Pullman – liner notes
* David Lau, Lisa Po-Ying Huang - Graphic Design