Bud Plays Bird

Bud Plays Bird Artist: Bud Powell
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724383713721
EAN: 0724383713721
ASIN: B000005H2X


Release Date: 1996-04-02

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Tracks:

  1. Big Foot (Long Version)
  2. Shaw 'Nuff
  3. Buzzy
  4. Yardbird Suite
  5. Relaxin' At Camarillo
  6. Confirmation
  7. Billie's Bounce
  8. Ko Ko
  9. Barbados
  10. Dewey Square
  11. Moose The Mooch
  12. Ornithology
  13. Scrapple From The Apple
  14. Salt Peanuts
  15. Big Foot (Short Version)

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Pleasant but not great.......2001-07-10

These late 1950s tracks originally recorded for Roulette, were rediscovered and rescued by Michael Cuscuna (kudos for his work). A solid, relatively good performance from that period of Powell's recording career. Powell shows flashes, but there is a casual repetitive undercurrent, a lack of dynamic tension, even when Powell hits top speed ("Big Foot", "KoKo", "Moose the Mooche"). Part of the blame is Art Taylor's somewhat boring drumming. He had already moved into a sparer, more Monk-like sound, his terrifying brilliance from his earlier days, dimmed. Compare his treatment of "Ornithology" here to his Blue Note 1949 recording ("Amazing Bud Powell" v.1). Bud Plays Bird ranks with Bud's later Blue Notes. While individual cuts are brilliant, the date as a whole is simply "pretty okay".

4 out of 5 stars One Great Master Playing Another.......2000-06-22

No one knew Charlie Parker's work much better than Bud, especially on the piano. The smile on Bud's face on the cover of this album is symbolic of the way it will make you feel. He injects the same energy into Bird's pieces as Bird himself. The swingin' tunes are so deftly produced from Bud's hands that you wonder if Charlie is standing over him directing his every thought. Bird and Bud fans alike will love this, as well as any jazz lover.

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