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 | Artist: Breakstone,Joshua | | Title: "Music Of Bud Powell" | | Media: Compact Discs | | Label: DTR | | Rel: 2000-09-19 |  | | List: $16.98 (Save 25%) | | Your Price: $12.75 |
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Review 1
Here we pay tribute to Bud Powell, who is generally remembered in just the opposite way from Monk- as a soloist first. It wasn't until I began assembling the music for this CD that it dawned on me just how prolific a composer Bud Powell really was. Here we have ten of his compositions, representing some of his more widely known pieces, as well as a few lesser known items- ten songs, despite the absence of such widely known items as Dance of the Infidels, Bouncing With Bud, Parisian Thoroughfare, John's Abbey, Oblivion, So Sorry Please, Webb City, and Wail (also known as Fool's Fancy and co-authored- as with Strictly Confidential, which appears here- by trumpeter Kenny Dorham). There are at least another dozen beyond these which I would love to have included but, alas, for lack of time (chief among them being Blue Pearl and I'll Keep Loving You). I chose material that speaks to me personally, and which also serves to demonstrate the scope of Bud's writing, both in terms of approach and emotional range. When we hear a song like Tempus Fugit (or Un Poco Loco, Oblivion, etc) and then Comin' Up (or Buttercup or Borderick) we can't help but ask ourselves if they could really have been written by the same person- Bud could sound so childlike, playful, innocent, and at other times so possessed, driven, intense. He was emotional. In his songs we get a glimpse of some of the people he loved- Celia (his daughter), Buttercup (ladyfriend), Francis (friend, advocate, protector). Bud was deep. | Review 2
1. Tempus Fugit, 2. Una Noche Con Francis, 3. Strictly Confidential, 4. Elegy, 5. Celia, 6. Un Poco Loco, 7. Sub City, 8. Time Waits, 9. Comin' Up, 10. The Scene Changes : Total Time (56:14) | | | |
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