Bud Powell in the 21st Century

SSC1619 2021-01-29

Track List

Bud Powell in the 21st Century: I. Choral - 2:34
Bud Powell in the 21st Century: II. Continuity - 4:14
Celia - 5:10
Tempus Fugit - 5:03
Five Simple Spells: I. Chorale - 1:12
Bouncing with Bud - 4:01
Five Simple Spells: II. Waltz - 0:53
Wail - 3:03
Five Simple Spells: III. Chorale - 0:52
Dance of the Infidels - 2:50
Five Simple Spells: V. Moderato - 1:16
52nd Street Theme - 3:51
Five Simple Spells: V. Ballad - 1:42
I'll Keep Loving You - 5:47
Nobile Paradiso - 11:11
Un poco loco - 6:20

Musicians

Ethan Iverson - piano
The Umbria Jazz Orchestra:
Ingrid Jensen - trumpet
Dayna Stephens - tenor saxophone
Ethan Iverson - piano, conduction (1 & 16)
Ben Street - bass
Lewis Nash - drums
Giovanni Hoffer - French horn (16)
Daniele Tittarelli - alto saxophone
Manuele Morbidini - alto saxophone, conduction (5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14)
Pedro Spallati - tenor saxophone
Rossano Emili - baritone saxophone
Mirco Rubegni - trumpet
Francesco Lento - trumpet
Francesco Fratini - trumpet
Massimo Morganti - trombone
Roberto Rossi - trombone
Federico Pierantoni - trombone
Rosario Liberti - bass trombone

The effects of the bebop revolution in jazz music are still being felt and explored. Of the half dozen true pioneers of the movement, pianist Bud Powell has remained somewhat in the shadows, although his work has become a major touchstone for true devotees of the music and a principal influence for most of jazz's most explorative pianists. Powell's brilliant original compositions are essential, infinitely listenable but also strangely tricky. Unlike Monk, Parker and Gillespie, the composer neglected to perform them much after their original recordings, so they never became a part of the jazz lingua franca. Pianist and historian Ethan Iverson provides a fantastic validation of Powell's compositional genius on his new recording, Bud Powell In The 21st Century, a reworking of a number of Powell's pieces for big band.