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Bud Powell – Bouncing With Bud
Delmark DD 406
Compact Disc

Earl “Bud” Powell is the supreme pianist of modern jazz, dominating the piano as Charlie Parker did the saxophone. Bebop, and ensuing modern music, would be incomplete without his involute, driven melodies, without his chiaroscuro vision, and without the recordings – those of his trios, and the ones with Parker, Fats Navarro, Dexter Gordon, Jay Jay Johnson, Sonny Stitt. Born in New York City, September 27, 1924, of a musical family, he was ready at age fifteen to leave school to work as a musician, taking what local gigs he could. The incubation of bebop made a natural alliance with his personal music, drew him to hawk his wares on the bustling 52nd Street market of the 40s, and then on to the recordings that made him the most influential pianist of the past two decades.

Recorded April 26, 1962 in Copenhagen


Bud Powell - piano
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - bass
William Schiöpffe - drums

1 Rifftide (Coleman Hawkins) 05:47
2 Bouncing with Bud (Gil Fuller / Bud Powell) 05:57
3 Move (Denzil Best) 06:12
4 The Best Thing for You (Irving Berlin) 04:13
5 Straight, No Chaser (Thelonious Monk) 02:23
6 I Remember Clifford (Benny Golson) 06:42
7 Hot House (Tadd Dameron) 05:58
8 52nd Street Theme (Thelonious Monk) 04:56

This Delmark recording is an excellent set by the great pianist Bud Powell in a trio with the teenage bassist Niels Pederson and drummer William Shiopffe. Recored in Copenhagen, the session features Powell exploring seven bop standards (including his own "Bouncing with Bud") and "The Best Thing for You." All eight selections (which put the emphasis on faster material other than "I Remember Clifford") showcase Bud Powell during his European renaissance period, giving pianists a definitive lesson in playing bop. - SCOTT YANOW, ALL MUSIC review