BUD POWELL "Jazz Original" NORGRAN Mono MG N-1017 Deep Groove LP 1955 US NM/VG++

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BUD POWELL "Jazz Original" Original 1955 Norgran MG N-1017 Mono US Deep Groove Pressing

Accompanied by Percy Heath, Max Roach, Lloyd Trotman and Art Blakey!!! Yellow Labels with DSM Trumpet Player LOGO

Vinyl is VG++ Nice gloss, YELLOW labels are clean with one spindle mark on B-side of label, faint scuffs only visible in bright light. Comes with white paper inner sleeve which is not original, I think these came with the thin rice paper sleeves that often fell apart or were discarded. Jacket is graded NM with very very faint ring wear, slight age discoloration on the back, NO bumped corners and the edges look nice! SUPER clean for a 60 year old jacket. Not everybody agrees about how to grade LP's so PLEASE look at the pics closely, they are detailed and accurate. I think you would be hard pressed to find a cleaner copy. Years ago I acquired a bunch of LP's on the Clef and Norgran labels. They all came from a man who worked at the label in the 1950's, I would assume he was given one copy of everything that was released while he worked there as he had quite a few. He was not a Jazz dude at all and I don't think he ever played any of these records, this Dizzy LP came from that batch. Please check out my other auctions for more from this same lot.

I grade as accurately as possible based on the standard Goldmine Grading Scale, landing on the conservative side when in doubt.
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This is a "no reserve" auction starting at $9.99 so let the chips fall where they may!!!

FROM ALLMUSIC: One of the giants of the jazz piano, Bud Powell changed the way that virtually all post-swing pianists play their instruments. He did away with the left-hand striding that had been considered essential earlier and used his left hand to state chords on an irregular basis. His right often played speedy single-note lines, essentially transforming Charlie Parker's vocabulary to the piano (although he developed parallel to "Bird"). Tragically, Bud Powell was a seriously ill genius. After being encouraged and tutored to an extent by his friend Thelonious Monk at jam sessions in the early '40s, Powell was with Cootie Williams' orchestra during 1943-1945. In a racial incident, he was beaten on the head by police; Powell never fully recovered and would suffer from bad headaches and mental breakdowns throughout the remainder of his life. Despite this, he recorded some true gems during 1947-1951 for Roost, Blue Note, and Verve, composing such major works as "Dance of the Infidels," "Hallucinations" (also known as "Budo"), "Un Poco Loco," "Bouncing with Bud," and "Tempus Fugit." Even early on, his erratic behavior resulted in lost opportunities (Charlie Parker supposedly told Miles Davis that he would not hire Powell because "he's even crazier than me!"), but Powell's playing during this period was often miraculous. A breakdown in 1951 and hospitalization that resulted in electroshock treatments weakened him, butPowell was still capable of playing at his best now and then, most notably at the 1953 Massey Hall Concert. Generally in the 1950s his Blue Notes find him in excellent form, while he is much more erratic on his Verve recordings. His warm welcome and lengthy stay in Paris (1959-1964) extended his life a bit, but even here Powell spent part of 1962-1963 in the hospital. He returned to New York in 1964, disappeared after a few concerts, and did not live through 1966. In later years, Bud Powell's recordings and performances could be so intense as to be scary, but other times he sounded quite sad. However, his influence on jazz (particularly up until the rise of McCoy Tynerand Bill Evans in the 1960s) was very strong and he remains one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time.





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