The Complete Bud Powell on Verve＜限定盤＞

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Personnel includes: Bud Powell (piano), Ray Brown (bass), Art Blakey, Kenny Clarke, Buddy Rich, Max Roach, Art Taylor (drums). THE COMPLETE BUD POWELL ON VERVE was nominated for Best Album Notes in the 37th Annual Grammy Awards. This extraordinary package raises the art of the box set to a new aesthetic plateau. THE COMPLETE BUD POWELL ON VERVE comes packaged in a bound book-style case, much like those collectors used to store their 78-rpm discs. Its five CDs are housed in picture sleeves, while a lavish 150-page booklet is brimming over with rare photos, commentaries by key collaborators, touching poems by Powell, and a track-by-track analysis by pianists Barry Harris and Michael Weiss. But it's the music that makes THE COMPLETE BUD POWELL ON VERVE so compelling. Powell's innovations are often spoken of as an addendum to the work of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. But in truth, Powell's the prototypical bebopper--he crystallized our notions of modern piano, from the odd percussive accents in his left hand to the skittering horn-like fluency of his right. A brilliant composer, he synthesized Monk and Art Tatum into a breathtaking virtuoso style: Powell's endless legato lines rushed over and lagged behind the beat at breakneck tempos with impulsive intensity and superhuman articulation. Likewise, Powell's sides for Norman Granz's various labels have long been undervalued. Powell's commanding technique and stirring lyric abandon animate "Tempus Fugit," "Cherokee," "Bebop" and "52nd Street," but it's his epic solo mastery on "Parisian Thoroughfare," and his brooding harmonies on "It Never Entered My Mind," "Time Was" and "When I Fall In Love" that best define Powell's restless romantic impulse.