Blues in the Closet (Bud Powell album)

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Blues in the Closet
Studio album by
Bud Powell
Released1958
RecordedSeptember 23, 1956
GenreJazz
Length38:15
LabelVerve
ProducerNorman Granz
Bud Powell chronology
Bud!
(1957) 		Blues in the Closet
(1958) 		Swingin' with Bud
(1958)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Blues in the Closet is a studio album by the jazz pianist Bud Powell.[2] Released in 1958 by Verve,[3] it contains a session that Powell recorded at Fine Sound Studios in New York in September 1956.

The album was released as a CD replica by Verve (Japan) in 2006 (POCJ-2744). The sessions (with alternate takes) are also available on The Complete Bud Powell on Verve (1994) CD box set.

History[edit]

This session is the last that Powell recorded for Verve, and re-unites him with Ray Brown for the first time (in the studio at least) since the first Verve sessions back in 1949-50. Fittingly, it ends with "52nd Street Theme", the traditional closing number in the heyday of bebop in the nineteen-forties.

Track listing 12" LP (MGV 8218)[edit]

  1. "When I Fall in Love" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 1:42
  2. "My Heart Stood Still" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:33
  3. "Blues in the Closet" (aka "Collard Greens and Black Eyed Peas") (Harry Babasin, Oscar Pettiford) – 3:04
  4. "Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home" (Pettiford) – 3:24
  5. "I Know That You Know" (Vincent Youmans, Anne Caldwell) – 2:26
  6. "Elegy" (aka "Elogie") – 3:00
  7. "Woody 'n You" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:55
  8. "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 3:42
  9. "Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker) – 4:36
  10. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Rodgers, Hart) – 4:02
  11. "Be-Bop" (Gillespie) – 2:27
  12. "52nd Street Theme" (Thelonious Monk) – 2:24

Personnel[edit]

Performance[edit]

September 23, 1956. Fine Sound Studios, New York.

Production[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ "Review Spotlight on... Special Merit Jazz Albums". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. February 24, 1958. p. 18 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Togashi, Nobuaki; Matsubayashi, Kohji; Hatta, Masayuki. "Bud Powell Discography (MGV 8218)". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved June 13, 2009.
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