Time Waits (The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 4)

Time Waits (The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 4)

One of jazz history's greatest pianists, Bud Powell suffered from mental illness and heavy medication that often interfered with his playing. When he recorded this session in 1957, at age 33, his most incandescent inventions were already behind him, but what remained was a pianist of extraordinary depth, capable of the deepest blues and a rhythmic incisiveness like Thelonious Monk's. And he was still a composer of first-rate bop lines, like "John's Abbey" and "Time Waits," the latter a reference to his once blazing "Tempus Fugue-it." The rhythm section of bassist Sam Jones and drummer Philly Joe Jones is absolutely masterful at the slow and medium tempos that Powell had come to favor, with Jones often prodding the pianist into exuberance. This is the finest of Powell's later recordings, revealing a bop pianist who paled only in comparison with his former self. --Stuart Broomer
Country USA
Manufacturer Blue Note Records
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 724352122721
ReleaseDate 1999-09-14
UnitCount 1
Format Original recording reissued
UPCs 724352122721
EANs 0724352122721

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Blue Note Records
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	724352122721
ReleaseDate	1999-09-14
UnitCount	1
Format	Original recording reissued
UPCs	724352122721
EANs	0724352122721

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