# Bud Powell discography

This is a discography of Bud Powell.

## Discography
### Studio albums
#### Roost & Blue Note years

| Year | Label | Catalogue number | Title | Date recorded | Notes |
| 1951 | Royal Roost | RLP-401 | The Bud Powell Trio, Vol. 1 | 1947. 1953 | 10"; reissued as Bud Powell Trio |
| 1952 | Blue Note | BLP 5003 | The Amazing Bud Powell | 1949-08-08, 1951-05-01 | 10" |
| 1954 | Blue Note | BLP 5041 | The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2 | 1953-08-14 | 10" |
| 1956 | Blue Note | BLP 1503 | The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 1 | 1949-08-08, 1951-05-01, 1953-08-14 | compiles BLP 5003 & BLP 5041 |
| 1956 | Blue Note | BLP 1504 | The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 2 | 1949-08-08, 1951-05-01, 1953-08-14 | compiles BLP 5003 & BLP 5041 |
| 1957 | Roost | RLP 2224 | Bud Powell Trio | 1947, 1953 | |
| 1957 | Blue Note | BLP 1571 | Bud! | 1957-08-03 | AKA The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 3 |
| 1958 | Blue Note | BLP 1598 | Time Waits | 1958-05-24 | AKA The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 4 |
| 1959 | Blue Note | BLP 4009 | The Scene Changes | 1958-12-29 | AKA The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 5 |
| 1996 | Roulette / Blue Note | | Bud Plays Bird | 1957-10-14, 1957-12-02, 1958-01-30 | |

#### Mercury & Verve years

| Year | Label | Catalogue number | Title | Date recorded | Notes |
| 1950 | Mercury / Clef | MG C-102 | Bud Powell Piano Solos | 1949 – 1950 | 10"; originally released on three shellac discs |
| 1952 | Mercury / Clef | MG C-507 | Bud Powell Piano Solos (No. 2) | 1949 – 1950 | 10"; originally released on three shellac discs |
| 1954 | Mercury / Clef | MG C-610 | Bud Powell's Moods | 1950 – 1951 | Reissued as The Genius of Bud Powell |
| 1954 | Norgran | MG N-23 | The Artistry of Bud Powell | 1954 – 1955 | 10"; reissued as Bud Powell's Moods |
| 1955 | Norgran | MGN 1017 | Jazz Original | 1954-12-16, 1955-01-11, -12 | Reissued as Bud Powell '57 |
| 1956 | Verve | MGV 8115 | The Genius of Bud Powell | 1950-07-01, 1951-02 | Reissue of Bud Powell's Moods |
| 1956 | Norgran | MGN 1063 | Jazz Giant | 1949–50 | reissued on Verve in 1957 |
| 1956 | Verve | MGV 8153 | Jazz Giant | 1949–50 | reissued on Verve in 1957 |
| 1956 | Norgran | MGN 1064 | Bud Powell's Moods | 1954-06-02, -04, 1955-01-12 | |
| 1956 | Verve | MGV 8154 | Bud Powell's Moods | 1954-06-02, -04, 1955-01-12 | |
| 1956 | Norgran | MGN 1077 | Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell | 1955-04-25, -27 | |
| 1956 | Verve | MGV 8167 | Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell | 1955-04-25, -27 | |
| 1957 | Norgran | MGN 1098 | Bud Powell '57 | 1954-12-16, 1955-01-11, -12 | Reissue of Jazz Original |
| 1957 | Verve | MGV 8185 | Bud Powell '57 | 1954-12-16, 1955-01-11, -12 | Reissue of Jazz Original |
| 1959 | Verve | MGV 8301 | The Lonely One... | 1955-01-13, 1955-04-25, -27 | |
| 1958 | Verve | MGV 8218 | Blues in the Closet | 1956-09-23 | |

#### Other labels

| Year | Label | Title | Date recorded | Notes |
| 1957 | RCA Victor | Strictly Powell | 1956-10-05 | |
| 1958 | RCA Victor | Swingin' with Bud | 1957-02-11 | |
| 1962 | Sonet / Storyville | Bouncing with Bud | 1962-04-26 | AKA In Copenhagen |
| 1964 | Reprise | Bud Powell in Paris | 1963–02 | |
| 1964 | Fontana/Black Lion | The Invisible Cage | 1964–07–31 | AKA Blues for Bouffemont |
| 1964 | Roulette | The Return of Bud Powell | 1964-09-18 | |
| 1965 | Columbia | A Portrait of Thelonious | 1961–12–17 | |
| 1973 | Mainstream | Ups 'n Downs | 1964 – 1966 | |
| 1979 | Columbia | A Tribute to Cannonball | 1961–12–15 | |

### Live and home recordings

| Year | Label | Title | Date recorded | Notes |
| 1953 | Debut | Jazz at Massey Hall | 1953 | 10"; live; with The Quintet (Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Max Roach) |
| 1953 | Debut | Jazz at Massey Hall, Vol. 2 | 1953 | 10"; live |
| 1963 | Impulse! | Americans in Europe, Vol. 1 | 1963 | |
| 1963 | Impulse! | Americans in Europe, Vol. 2 | 1963 | |
| | ESP-Disk | Winter Broadcasts 1953 | 1953 | |
| | ESP-Disk | Spring Broadcasts 1953 | 1953 | |
| | ESP-Disk | Summer Broadcasts 1953 | 1953 | |
| | ESP-Disk | Autumn Broadcasts 1953 | 1953 | |
| | Queen Disc [Italy] | Live at Birdland | 1953 | |
| 1975 | Xanadu | Bud in Paris | 1959–12–12, 1960–02–14, 1960–03–12, 1960–06–15, 1960–10–14 | |
| | Moon [Italy] | Pianology | 1961 | |
| | Stretch Archives | Bud Powell Live in Lausanne 1962 | 1962 | |
| | Norma [Japan] | Bud Powell Live in Geneva | 1962 | |
| 1978 | SteepleChase | Bud Powell Trio at the Golden Circle, Vol. 1 | 1962 | |
| 1978 | SteepleChase | Bud Powell Trio at the Golden Circle, Vol. 2 | 1962 | |
| 1978 | SteepleChase | Bud Powell Trio at the Golden Circle, Vol. 3 | 1962 | |
| 1978 | SteepleChase | Bud Powell Trio at the Golden Circle, Vol. 4 | 1962 | |
| 1978 | SteepleChase | Bud Powell Trio at the Golden Circle, Vol. 5 | 1962 | |
| | SteepleChase | Budism | 1962 | |
| | SteepleChase | 1962 Copenhagen | 1962 | |
| | SteepleChase | 1962 Stockholm-Oslo | 1962 | |
| 1982 | Elektra/Musician | Inner Fires | 1953 | E1-60030 |
| | Fontana | Bud Powell at Home – Strictly Confidential | 1962–1964 | |
| | Fontana | Hot House | 1964 | |
| 1988 | Black Lion | The Essen Jazz Festival Concert | 1960 | |
| 1989 | Mythic Sound | Early Years of a Genius, 44–48 | 1944–1948 | AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 1 |
| 1989 | Mythic Sound | Burnin' in U.S.A., 53–55 | 1953–1955 | AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 2 |
| 1989 | Mythic Sound | Cookin' at Saint-Germain, 57–59 | 1957–1959 | AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 3 |
| 1989 | Mythic Sound | Relaxin' at Home, 61–64 | 1961–1964 | AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 4 |
| 1989 | Mythic Sound | Groovin' at the Blue Note, 59–61 | 1959–1961 | AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 5 |
| 1989 | Mythic Sound | Writin' for Duke, 63 | 1963 | AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 6 |
| 1989 | Mythic Sound | Tribute to Thelonious, 64 | 1964 | AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 7 |
| 1989 | Mythic Sound | Holidays in Edenville, 64 | 1964 | AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 8 |
| 1989 | Mythic Sound | Return to Birdland, 64 | 1964 | AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 9 |
| 1989 | Mythic Sound | Award at Birdland, 64 | 1964 | AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 10 |
| 1989 | Mythic Sound | Gift for the Friends, 60–64 | 1960–1964 | AKA Earl Bud Powell, Vol. 11 |
| 1994 | Dreyfus Jazz | 'Round About Midnight at the Blue Note | 1962 | |
| 2004 | Piadrum | Eternity | 1961–1964 | |

### 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)