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Music : The Amazing Bud Powell Vol.1
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The Amazing Bud Powell Vol.1 by: Bud Powell List Price: £8.99 CD-Charts Price: £6.48 You Save: £2.51 (28%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724353213626 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Blue Note Manufacturer: Blue Note Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Blue Note Release Date: July 02, 2001 Studio: Blue Note Sales Rank: 44087 MPN: 32136 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Leave the Original AloneFirst of, there are three exceptional tracks here - Un Poco Loco, Night in Tunesia & Dance of Infidels. Bouncing With Bud is pretty good too. However, We are then given the dubious pleasure of not one, but two alternative takes of the latter (back to back I might add) There are also alternative takes of Wail, Dance of the Infidels, It Could Happen To You, A Night In Tunesia & Un Poco Loco! This is infuriating, partly because these alternatate takes hardly differ from the the original (in fact takes were blended together to make the original tracks) So you have to wonder, why wasn't this done here? If you must give us alternative takes; but them at the end of CD, so we can hear the original album how it was intended by the artist. Hands ... Read More: Rating:  - Turbulent beautyOne of the shallowest things that could be said about Bud Powell is that he was a bop pianist, and yet this is how he is most frequently described. Almost certainly this is because of his celebrated association with Bird and Diz, and because of his chronological place in jazz history. But the label gives a very limited picture of a composer and pianist of unusual vision and originality. Powell suffered from severe mental health problems, and many of his explorations on piano are profound reflections of his innermost turmoil - "Glass Enclosure", "Parisian Thoroughfare", "Dance of the Infidels" and "Un Poco Loco" are prime examples not just of this, but of his compositional breadth and complexity. Perhaps more remarkable, however, are ... Read More: |
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