Bud Powell Discography - session index

1944 (age 20)

• Cootie Williams 6   NYC, Jan. 4, 1944
• Cootie Williams 6   NYC, Jan. 6, 1944
• Cootie Williams Orch.   same location, date
• Cootie Williams Orch.   RB, Apollo Theater, NYC or Savoy Ballroom, NYC, Jan.-May, 1944
• Cootie Williams Orch.   AFRS Jubilee, NBC Studios, Hollywood, CA, May 1, 1944
• Cootie Williams 6   same location, date
• Cootie Williams 3   TVB, Canada Lee Show, War Loan Drive Transcription, NYC, July 4, 1944
• Cootie Williams Orch.   NYC, Aug. 22, 1944

1945

• Frankie Socolow's Duke 5   NYC, May 2, 1945

1946

• Dexter Gordon 5   NYC, Jan. 29, 1946
• Sarah Vaughan with Tadd Dameron Orch.   NYC, May 7, 1946
• J.J. Johnson's Beboppers   NYC, June 26, 1946
• Sonny Stitt 5 / Kenny Dorham 5 / The Be Bop Boys   NYC, Aug. 23, 1946
• Sonny Stitt 5 / The Be Bop Boys   same location, date
• Kenny Clarke 52nd Street Boys   NYC, Sep. 5, 1946
• Fats Navarro / Gil Fuller's Modernists / The Be Bop Boys   NYC, Sep. 6, 1946

1947

• The Bud Powell 3   NYC, Jan. 10, 1947
• Charlie Parker All Stars   Harry Smith Studios, NYC, May 8, 1947
• The Lost Milton H. Green Home Recordings   Milton H. Greene's photography studio, 480 Lexington Ave., NYC, late 1947

1948

• Not All Star Jam Session   RB, Royal Roost, NYC, Dec. 19, 1948

1949

• Bud Powell 3   NYC, Jan.-Feb., 1949
• Bud Powell 3   NYC, Feb.-May, 1949
• Bud Powell 3   NYC, c. Feb., 1949
• Bud Powell's Modernists   WOR Studios, NYC, Aug. 9, 1949
• Sonny Stitt 4   NYC, Dec. 11, 1949
• The Stars Of Modern Jazz   The Stars Of Modern Jazz, Carnegie Hall, NYC, Dec. 25, 1949

1950

• Sonny Stitt 4   NYC, Jan. 26, 1950
• Bud Powell 3   NYC, Feb., 1950
• Charlie Parker 5   RB, Birdland, NYC, May 15 & 16, 1950
• Bud Powell 3   NYC, July 1, 1950
• Sarah Vaughan with Norman Leyden Orch.   NYC, July 20, 1950

1951

• Bud Powell 1   NYC, Feb., 1951
• Dizzy Gillespie - Charlie Parker 5   Birdland, NYC, Mar. 31, 1951
• The Bud Powell 3   WOR Studios, NYC, May 1, 1951

1953

• Bud Powell 3   WJZ RB, Birdland, NYC, Feb. 7, 1953
• Bud Powell 3   WJZ RB, Birdland, NYC, Feb. 14, 1953
• Bud Powell 3   WJZ RB, Birdland, NYC, Mar. 7, 1953
• Bud Powell 3   WJZ RB, Birdland, NYC, Mar. 21, 1953
• Bud Powell 3   Club Kavakos, Washington, DC, Apr. 5, 1953
• Bud Powell 3 with Joe Timer Big Band   same location, date
• The 5   Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada, May 15, 1953
• Bud Powell 3   same location, date
• The 5   same location, date
• Charlie Parker 4   WJZ RB, Birdland, NYC, May 22, 1953
• Bud Powell 3   WJZ RB, Birdland, NYC, May 30, 1953
• Dizzy Gillespie 4   Birdland, NYC???, c. late May, 1953
• Charlie Parker 4   WJZ RB, NYC, May, 1953
• Bud Powell 3   WJZ RB, Birdland, NYC, June 20, 1953
• Bud Powell 3   WJZ RB, Birdland, NYC, July 11, 1953
• Bud Powell 3   WOR Studios, NYC, Aug. 14, 1953
• Bud Powell 3   WJZ RB, Birdland, NYC, Sep. 5, 1953
• Bud Powell 3   WJZ RB, Birdland, NYC, Sep. 19, 1953
• Bud Powell 3   WJZ RB, Birdland, NYC, Sep. 26, 1953
• Bud Powell 3   NYC, Sep., 1953
• Bud Powell 3   TVB, The Tonight Show With Steve Allen, CBS Studios, NYC, 1953
• Charlie Parker   prob. NYC, 1953?

1954 (age 30)

• Bud Powell 3   Fine Sound, NYC, June 2, 1954
• Bud Powell 3   Fine Sound, NYC, June 4, 1954
• Bud Powell 3   Fine Sound, NYC, Dec. 16, 1954

1955

• Bud Powell 3   Fine Sound, NYC, Jan. 11, 1955
• Bud Powell 3   Fine Sound, NYC, Jan. 12, 1955
• Bud Powell 3   Fine Sound, NYC, Jan. 13, 1955
• Bud Powell 3   Fine Sound, NYC, Apr. 25, 1955
• Bud Powell 3   Fine Sound, NYC, Apr. 27, 1955
• Bud Powell 3   Birdland, NYC, Sep., 1955

1956

• The Bud Powell 3   Fine Sound, NYC, Sep. 13, 1956
• Bud Powell 3   NYC, Oct. 5, 1956

1957

• Bud Powell 3   Birdland, NYC, Jan., 1957
• Bud Powell 3   NYC, Feb. 11, 1957
• Bud Powell 4   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, Aug. 3, 1957
• Bud Powell 3   NYC, Oct. 14, 1957
• Bud Powell 3   NYC, Dec. 2, 1957
• The Three Bosses   Club St. Germain, Paris, France, 1957
• Dizzy Gillespie - Bud Powell 5   Paris, France, 1957

1958

• Bud Powell 3   NYC, Jan. 30, 1958
• Bud Powell 3   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, May 24, 1958
• Bud Powell 3   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, Dec. 29, 1958

1959

• The Three Bosses   Club St. Germain, Paris, France, Nov. 6, 1959
• The Three Bosses with Clark Terry   Club St. Germain, Paris, France, Nov. 7, 1959
• Bud Powell 3 with Barney Wilen   Paris, France, Dec. 12, 1959
• Art Blakey and JM with Guests   Theatre Des Champs-Elysees, Paris, France, Dec. 18, 1959
• Bud Powell 3 with Barney Wilen   Club St. Germain, Paris, France, 1959
• The Three Bosses   same location, date
• The Three Bosses with Guests   same location, date

1960

• Johnny Griffin - Bud Powell 2   Paris, France, Feb. 14, 1960
• The Three Bosses   Le Blue Note, Paris, France, Mar. 12, 1960
• The Three Bosses   Paris, France, Mar. 12, 1960
• Oscar Pettiford's Essen Jazz Festival All Stars   Essen Jazz Fest., Grugahalle, Essen, W. Germany, Apr. 2, 1960
• The Three Bosses   Le Blue Note, Paris, France, May 8, 1960
• The Three Bosses   Le Blue Note, Paris, France, June 15, 1960
• Charles Mingus 5 + Bud Powell   Antibes Jazz Fest., Juan-les-Pins, Antibes, France, July 13, 1960
• The Three Bosses   Theatre Des Champs-Elysees, Paris, France, Oct. 14, 1960
• Bud Powell 3   Le Blue Note, Paris, France, 1960

1961

• The Three Bosses with Zoot Sims   Le Blue Note, Paris, France, Jan., 1961
• Bud Powell 3 with Barney Wilen   Milan, Italy, Apr. 21, 1961
• Bud Powell 3   Annual Jazz Fest., Comblain-la-Tour, Belgium, July, 1961
• Don Byas - Bud Powell 5   Studio Charlot, Paris, France, Dec. 15, 1961
• The Three Bosses   Paris, France, Dec. 17, 1961
• Bud Powell - Francis Paudras 2   Francis Paudras' home, Rue De Boursault, Paris, France, 1961

1962

• Bud Powell 3   RB, Lausanne, Switzerland, Jan. 31, 1962
• Bud Powell 3   RB, Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 1, 1962
• Bud Powell 3   Gyllene Cirkeln, Stockholm, Sweden, Apr. 17, 1962
• Bud Powell 3   Gyllene Cirkeln, Stockholm, Sweden, Apr. 19, 1962
• Bud Powell 3   Gyllene Cirkeln, Stockholm, Sweden, Apr. 23, 1962
• Bud Powell 3   Copenhagen, Denmark, Apr. 26, 1962
• Bud Powell 3   Gyllene Cirkeln, Stockholm, Sweden, Apr. or Sep., 1962
• Bud Powell 3   Oslo, Norway, Sep. 24-26, 1962
• Bud Powell 3   Oslo, Norway, Sep., 1962
• Bud Powell - Francis Paudras 2   Paris, France, 1962
• The Three Bosses   Le Blue Note, Paris, France, 1962
• Bud Powell - Francis Paudras 2   Paris, France, 1962-1964

1963

• Idrees Sulieman 4   live in Koblenz, W. Germany, Jan. 3, 1963
• Bud Powell 3   same location, date
• Don Byas 5   same location, date
• Bud Powell Interview   Paris, France, Jan. 15, & May 6, 1963
• Bud Powell 3   Paris, France, Feb., 1963
• Dexter Gordon with The Three Bosses   CBS Studios, Paris, France, May 23, 1963
• Dizzy Gillespie 4 and The Double Six Of Paris   Europasonor Studios, Paris, France, July 8, 1963
• Bud Powell - Francis Paudras 2   Francis Paudras' home, Rue De Clichy, Paris, France, 1963

1964 (age 40)

• Bud Powell - Francis Paudras 2   Francis Paudras' home, Rue De Clichy, Paris, France, early 1964
• Bud Powell - Francis Paudras 2   Francis Paudras' home, Rue De Clichy, Paris, France, Feb. 16, 1964
• Bud Powell 3   Studio Acousti, Paris, France, July 31, 1964
• Bud Powell 3 with Johnny Griffin   Hotel-Restaurant La Belle Escale, Edenville, France, Aug. 8-14, 1964
• Bud Powell 3   NYC, Sep. 18, 1964
• Bud Powell 3   Birdland, NYC, Sep. 29-Oct. 1, 1964
• Bud Powell 3   Birdland, NYC, Sep. 30, 1964
• Bud Powell 3   Birdland, NYC, Oct. 1, 1964
• Bud Powell 3   Birdland, NYC, 1964
• Bud Powell 3/1   prob. NYC, c. 1964

1965

• Bud Powell 1   Charlie Parker 10th Memorial Concert, Carnegie Hall, NYC, Mar. 27, 1965
• Bud Powell   Town Hall, NYC, May 1, 1965
• Bud Powell 1   NYC, late 1965

1966 (aged 41)

• Bud Powell 3   NYC, Jan., 1966

1990

• Highstream: The Best Of Mainstream Jazz   released 1990

Others

• Bud Powell   released 2002; Paris, France, recorded between 1957 & 1964
• Bud Powell   released 2003; Paris, France, recorded between 1957 & 1961
• Bud Powell   released 2004; NYC, Paris, & Edenville, France, recorded between 1948 & 1964

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