Bud Powell Discography - session index

1944 (The age of 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" 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

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

1946

• Dexter Gordon 5  NYC, Jan. 29, 1946
• Sarah Vaughan w/ Tadd Dameron Orch.  NYC, May 7, 1946
• J.J. Johnson's Beboppers  NYC, June 26, 1946
• Kenny Dorham 5 / The Bebop Boys  NYC, Aug. 23, 1946
• Sonny Stitt 5 / The Bebop Boys  NYC, Sep. 4, 1946
• Kenny Clarke 52nd Street Boys  NYC, Sep. 5, 1946
• Fats Navarro / Gil Fuller's Modernists  NYC, Sep. 6, 1946

1947

• 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 (The age of 25)

• 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 w/ Norman Leyden Orch.  NYC, July 20, 1950

1951

• Bud Powell 1  NYC, Feb., 1951
• Dizzy Gillespie - Charlie Parker 5  Birdland, NYC, Mar. 31, 1951
• 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. 21, 1953
• Bud Powell 3  WJZ RB, Birdland, NYC, Mar. 23, 1953
• Bud Powell 3  Club Kavakos, Washington, DC, Apr. 5, 1953
• Bud Powell 3 w/ Joe Timer Big Band  same location, date
• The 5  Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada, May 15, 1953
• Bud Powell 3  same location, date
• Chalie Parker 4  WJZ RB, Birdland, NYC, May 22, 1953
• Bud Powell 3  WJZ RB, Birdland, NYC, May 30, 1953
• Charlie Parker 5  same location, date
• 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. 9, 1953
• Bud Powell 3  WJZ RB, Birdland, NYC, Sep. 26, 1953
• Bud Powell 3  NYC, Sep., 1953
• Bud Powell 3  TVB, Tonight Show With Steve Allen, CBS Studios, NYC, 1953
• Charlie Parker  prob. NYC, 1953?

1954 (The age of 30)

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

1955

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

1956

• Bud Powell 3  Fine Sound Studios, 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 5  RVG, 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  RVG, Hackensack, NJ, May 24, 1958
• Bud Powell 3  RVG, Hackensack, NJ, Dec. 29, 1958

1959 (The age of 35)

• The Three Bosses  Club St. Germain, Paris, France, Nov. 6, 1959
• The Three Bosses w/ Clark Terry  Club St. Germain, Paris, France, Nov. 7, 1959
• Barney Wilen - Bud Powell 4  Paris, France, Dec. 12, 1959
• Art Blakey & JM  Theatre Des Champs-Elysees, Paris, France, Dec. 18, 1959
• Barney Wilen - Bud Powell 4  Club St. Germain, Paris, France, 1959
• The Three Bosses  same location, date
• The Three Bosses w/ Guests  same location, date

1960

• Johnny Griffin - Bud Powell 2  Paris, France, Feb. 14, 1960
• The Three Bosses  Blue Note Cafe, Paris, France, Mar. 12, 1960
• The Three Bosses  Paris, France, Mar. 12, 1960
• Oscar Pettiford 4  Essen Jazz Fest., Grugahalle, Essen, West Germany, Apr. 2, 1960
• Oscar Pettiford 3  same location, date
• The Three Bosses  Blue Note Cafe, Paris, France, May 8, 1960
• The Three Bosses  Blue Note Cafe, Paris, France, June 15, 1960
• Charles Mingus 5 + Bud Powell  Juan-les-Pins Jazz Fest., Antibes, France, July 13, 1960
• The Three Bosses  Theatre Des Champs-Elysees, Paris, France, Oct. 14, 1960
• Bud Powell 3  Blue Note Cafe, Paris, France, 1960

1961

• The Three Bosses w/ Zoot Sims  Blue Note Cafe, Paris, France, Jan., 1961
• Barney Wilen - Bud Powell 4  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  Gyllende Cirklen, Stockholm, Sweden, Apr. 19, 1962
• Bud Powell 3  Gyllende Cirklen, Stockholm, Sweden, Apr. 23, 1962
• Bud Powell 3  Copenhagen, Denmark, Apr. 26, 1962
• Bud Powell 3  Gyllende Cirklen, Stockholm, Sweden, Apr. or Sep., 1962
• Bud Powell 3  Gyllende Cirklen, Stockholm, Sweden, Sep. 10, 1962
• Bud Powell 3  Oslo, Norway, Sep., 1962
• The Three Bosses  Blue Note Cafe, Paris, France, 1962
• Bud Powell - Francis Paudras 2  Paris, France, 1962
• Bud Powell - Francis Paudras 2  Paris, France, 1962-1964

1963

• Idrees Sulieman 4  Koblenz, West 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 w/ The Three Bosses  CBS Studios, Paris, France, May 23, 1963
• Dizzy Gillespie 4 & 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 (The age of 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  Paris, France, July 31, 1964
• Johnny Griffin - Bud Powell 4  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 1  prob. NYC, c. 1964
• Bud Powell 3  same location, date

1965

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

1966

• Bud Powell 3  NYC, Jan., 1966

Others

• Bud Powell's Bebop  NYC, Paris, and Edenville, France, between 1948-1964
• Bud Powell's Parisian Thoroughfares  Paris, France, between 1957-1961
• Bud Powell's Paris Sessions  Paris, France, between 1957-1964