''Strictly Powell'' is a studio album by

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Bud Powell Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Along with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke and Dizzy Gillespie, Powell was a leading figure in the development of modern ...

, released in 1957 by

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, featuring a session Powell recorded in 1956. The album was remastered and released on CD by

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in 1994, and re-issued by RCA in 1995. The session is also available on '' The Complete RCA Trio Sessions''.

History

This is the first of Powell's two sessions for RCA Victor. There are four new Powell compositions (not counting "Elegy" which two weeks previously had been recorded as "Elogie" for his final

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session, released on '' Blues in the Closet''), and in the original LP liner notes

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marks out "Blues for Bessie" as "the most remarkable ... a completely spontaneous improvisation from start to finish". Concerning "Elegy", Feather notes that it "scales up and down little ladders of fourths".

Track listing

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) – 3:39 #"Coscrane" – 3:44 #" Over the Rainbow" (

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) – 2:53 #"Elegy" (aka "Elogie" and "Elegie") – 3:49 #"

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) – 2:32 #"Jump City" – 3:21

Personnel

Performance

''October 5, 1956, New York. The Bud Powell Trio.'' *

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Production

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& photo *Ikuyoshi Hirakawa –

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(1994 CD release) *

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*Cliff Preiss – liner notes (1995 CD release) *Tohru Kotetsu – remastering (1994 CD release)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Strictly Powell Bud Powell albums 1957 albums RCA Victor albums