The Best of Bud Powell on Verve is a selection of jazz pianist Bud Powell's recordings for Verve Records, released on August 23, 1994.
The similarly titled The Best of Bud Powell was released by Blue Note Records in 1989, and features tracks recorded from 1949 to 1963 on that label, with little overlap in song selection.
Track listing All songs were written by Bud Powell, except where noted. "Lady Bird" (Tadd Dameron) – 4:44 "Dance of the Infidels" – 2:16 "So Sorry, Please" – 3:14 "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) – 2:48 "Willow Grove" (aka "Willow Groove") – 4:27 "Tempus Fugue-it" (aka "Tempus Fugit") – 2:25 "It Never Entered My Mind" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:56 "Bean and the Boys" (Contrafact of "Lover Come Back to Me") (Coleman Hawkins) – 3:38 "Celia" – 2:57 "Tea for Two" [78 take (take 10)] (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar) – 3:46 "Star Eyes" (Gene De Paul, Don Raye) – 3:28 "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 3:08 "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 3:15 "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (Bronislaw Kaper, Gus Kahn, Walter Jurmann) – 2:59 "Stairway to the Stars" (Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli, Mitchell Parish) – 4:58 "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 3:50 "Parisian Thoroughfare" (aka "Parisienne Thorofare") – 2:28
Personnel Performance Bud Powell plays piano on all tracks.
April 27, 1955, tracks 1, 11, 15. April 25, 1955, track 5. George Duvivier – bass Art Taylor – drums January 13, 1955, track 2. Percy Heath – bass Kenny Clarke – drums February 1950, tracks 3, 4, 12. Curly Russell – bass Max Roach – drums February 23, 1949, tracks 6, 10, 14. Ray Brown – bass Max Roach – drums June 4, 1954, track 7. Percy Heath – bass Art Taylor – drums January 11, 1955, tracks 8, 13. Lloyd Trotman – bass Art Blakey – drums July 1, 1950, track 9. Ray Brown – bass Buddy Rich – drums February, 1951, tracks 16–17 – Powell solos.
Production Norman Granz – producer Max Harrison – liner notes Leroy Lovett – producer
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