Live At The Blue Note CafŽ, Paris 1961

Bud Powell

Composed by: Gillespie; Paparelli; Duke; Latouche; Fetter; Stitt; Warren; Gordon; Davis; Monk; Ramirez; Sherman; Williams; Hanighen

Bud Powell moved to Paris, France at the end of March 1959. By year’s end, Bud, drummer Kenny Clarke and bassist Pierre Michelot teamed up for a two-year residency, occasionally joined by famous guests passing through town. Producer Alan Douglas recorded them in 1961, capturing a typical trio set of standards and bebop favorites. Earlier in the year, saxophonist Zoot Sims was captured sitting in. Powell's post-1953 work can be erratic, but sometimes, as in these concerts, he had good nights, and the greater expressiveness of his later years has its own attractions.

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