Starting the week with some jazz is totally fine with me, and if it happens to be Bud Powell, all the better. Powell is firmly entrenched in the classic bebop era, standing alongside the first wave of greats like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. "Un Poco Loco" is a real standout composition on this short set. In fact, it used to be the lead track on the old vinyl editions. Subsequent CD editions have added rehearsal tracks where available before each studio track to illustrate the development of each song (the original album is under half an hour). Another reissue includes a number of outtakes but I am not fortunate enough to have this deluxe set in my library.
Powell shows up here in there in my library, notably as 1/5 of the Quintet (Gillespie-Parker-Powell-Mingus-Roach) and much later supporting Dexter Gordon on Our Man In Paris. Supposedly by these last recordings in the 1960's he was quite a curmudgeon, forcing Gordon to play only standards, no new music. This is pretty surprising coming from the guy who gave us so many excellent original compositions on this particular album.
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