previously unreleased Bud Powell

[mhatta]

I didn't know about the release (away from music for a while), so I found and bought it yesterday.

The sound quality is quite good -- it's not aircheck, isn't it?

As Gheorghe noted, repertories, arrangement and their keys are pretty much fixed, so there's no real surprises.  But still they are prime Bud!  I think "April in Paris" from Aug. 15, 1953 is the best take Bud has ever recorded.

[xybert]

Very happy with this release. The packaging is pretty good: cardboard sleeve but it's high quality, comes with a plastic outer sleeve and an inner sleeve for the CD. As mhatta noted, no surprises musically but for me new Bud is irresistible.

[ghost of miles]

I realize that the repertoire is much the same, but is there any actual overlap with the ESP set?

[Gheorghe]

4 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

I realize that the repertoire is much the same, but is there any actual overlap with the ESP set?

That might be the 4 albums "Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumnsession" ?

No there is no overlap, and for the similar repertoire, it´s interesting that on the Wintersessions from february 53 Bud plays a more varied set including other tunes like a fast Tea For Two, a wonderful "It Could Happen to You", "Ornithology" etc, and not just stickin to the many "I Want to be Happy´s" and "I´ve Got You Under My Skin´s " in the same key.

Something must have happend to Bud during that busy year 1953, when he played so much at Birdland but always had "someone to watch over him". Maybe he lost interest in what he was doing, because some of the recordings from autumn really let the impressions that Bud was on "auto pilot".....