Time: 49:36
Size: 113.5 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 1964
Art: Front
[5:56] 1. I Know That You Know
[3:53] 2. Someone To Watch Over Me
[4:53] 3. The Best Thing For You
[5:43] 4. On Green Dolphin Street
[5:41] 5. Just One Of Those Things
[4:26] 6. I Remember Clifford
[4:50] 7. Hallucinations
[4:33] 8. If I Loved You
[5:34] 9. I Hear Music
[4:02] 10. Autumn In New York
On April 26, 1962, Bud Powell recorded an LP titled "Bouncing with Bud," on the Delmark label. He was full of spark and played with the ease and swiftness that had been his trademark in his earlier years. Clearly he had rallied from the dark vales into which he had descended for years, a result of mental illness and substance misuse. Four years of a European exile had apparently helped - at least the great master of the keyboard had not fallen apart. That recording is worth seeking out and enjoying, for it was probably the last hooray of the great man.
Two years later, upon his return to New York City, he recorded this album - whose title "the return of Bud Powell" can only be interpreted in terms of his physical return to the United States. His piano playing was gone. What one hears in this recording is a very hesitant, tentative piano player whom one identifies as Bud because of his characteristic moans and groans.
There are some bright moments, such as his rendition of the "I Remember Clifford", though even here he sounds like someone pushing himself to do what would have been second nature in his earlier days.
One who has not heard his earlier versions of "Hallucinations" might find no problem with his rendition of it here. It is quite a challenge to listen to it. Yet all said, I give him great credit for trying. That he refused to give up was testament to his determination. ~Munlini Mulera
Two years later, upon his return to New York City, he recorded this album - whose title "the return of Bud Powell" can only be interpreted in terms of his physical return to the United States. His piano playing was gone. What one hears in this recording is a very hesitant, tentative piano player whom one identifies as Bud because of his characteristic moans and groans.
There are some bright moments, such as his rendition of the "I Remember Clifford", though even here he sounds like someone pushing himself to do what would have been second nature in his earlier days.
One who has not heard his earlier versions of "Hallucinations" might find no problem with his rendition of it here. It is quite a challenge to listen to it. Yet all said, I give him great credit for trying. That he refused to give up was testament to his determination. ~Munlini Mulera
The Return Of Bud Powell
