The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings


The Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings is a four-disc box set, released on October 4, 1994, containing the bulk of jazz pianist Bud Powell's recordings as leader for Blue Note Records, plus two early sessions for Roost Records.

Track listing

Except where otherwise noted, all songs composed by Bud Powell.

Disc one

  1. "I'll Remember April" – 2:54
  2. " Indiana" – 2:45
  3. "Somebody Loves Me" – 2:56
  4. "I Should Care" – 3:02
  5. "Bud's Bubble" – 2:36
  6. "Off Minor" – 2:24
  7. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" – 2:20
  8. "Everything Happens To Me" – 2:41
  9. "Bouncing with Bud" – 3:03
  10. "Bouncing with Bud" – 3:12
  11. "Bouncing with Bud" – 3:01
  12. "Wail" – 2:38
  13. "Wail" – 3:02
  14. "Dance of the Infidels" – 2:52
  15. "Dance of the Infidels" – 2:50
  16. "52nd Street Theme" – 2:45
  17. "You Go to My Head" – 3:11
  18. "Ornithology" – 2:20
  19. "Ornithology" – 3:07
  20. "Un Poco Loco" – 3:46
  21. "Un Poco Loco" – 4:28
  22. "Un Poco Loco" – 4:42
  23. "Over the Rainbow" – 2:55

    Disc two

  24. "A Night in Tunisia" – 4:16
  25. "A Night in Tunisia" – 3:52
  26. "It Could Happen to You" – 2:22
  27. "It Could Happen to You" – 3:16
  28. "Parisian Thoroughfare" – 3:25
  29. "Autumn in New York" – 2:51
  30. "Reets and I" – 3:18
  31. "Reets and I" – 2:30
  32. "Sure Thing" – 2:39
  33. "Collard Greens and Black-Eyed Peas" – 2:11
  34. "Collard Greens and Black-Eyed Peas" – 3:01
  35. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" – 4:00
  36. "I Want to Be Happy" – 2:50
  37. "Audrey" – 2:54
  38. "Glass Enclosure" – 2:21
  39. "Embraceable You" – 2:51
  40. "Burt Covers Bud" – 3:07
  41. "My Heart Stood Still" – 3:20
  42. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" – 2:41
  43. "Bags' Groove" – 2:14
  44. "My Devotion" – 3:05
  45. "Stella by Starlight" – 2:10
  46. "Woody 'n' You" – 3:00

    Disc three

  47. "Blue Pearl" – 3:46
  48. "Blue Pearl" – 4:03
  49. "Keepin' In The Groove" – 2:53
  50. "Some Soul" – 6:56
  51. "Frantic Fancies" – 4:50
  52. "Bud On Bach" – 2:30
  53. "Idaho" – 5:14
  54. "Don't Blame Me" – 7:31
  55. "Moose the Mooche" – 5:45
  56. "John's Abbey" – 5:36
  57. "Sub City" – 2:36
  58. "Sub City" – 4:32
  59. "John's Abbey" – 2:25
  60. "Buster Rides Again" – 5:30

    Disc four

  61. "Dry Soul" – 6:41
  62. "Marmalade" – 4:28
  63. "Monopoly" – 4:47
  64. "Time Waits" – 5:06
  65. "The Scene Changes" – 3:59
  66. "Down With It" – 3:58
  67. "Comin' Up" – 5:26
  68. "Comin' Up" – 7:54
  69. "Duid Deed" – 5:06
  70. "Cleopatra's Dream" – 4:22
  71. "Gettin' There" – 5:01
  72. "Crossin' The Channel" – 3:28
  73. "Danceland" – 3:41
  74. "Borderick" – 1:58
  75. "Like Someone in Love" – 6:18

    Personnel

plays piano on all tracks.
January 10, 1947, New York. Disc 1, tracks 1-8. Roost session - see Bud Powell Trio.
August 9, 1949, WOR Studios, New York. Disc 1, tracks 9-19. See The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1.
May 1, 1951, WOR Studios, New York. Disc 1, tracks 20-23 and disc 2, tracks 1-5. See The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 and The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2.
August 14, 1953, WOR Studios, New York. Disc 2, tracks 6-15. See The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2.
September 1953, New York. Disc 2, tracks 16-23. Roost session - see Bud Powell Trio.
August 3, 1957, Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey. Disc 3, tracks 1-9. See Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell.
May 24, 1958, Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey. Disc 3, tracks 10-14 and disc 4, tracks 1-4. See.
December 28, 1958, Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey. Disc 4, tracks 5-14. See.
May 23, 1963, CBS Studios, Paris. Disc 4, track 15. See Dexter Gordon's Our Man in Paris.