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Time Waits: The Amazing Bud Powell
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724352122721
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Label: Blue Note Records
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
MPN: 21227
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Blue Note Records
Release Date: September 14, 1999
Studio: Blue Note Records
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Editorial Review:
One of jazz history's greatest pianists, Bud Powell suffered from mental illness and heavy medication that often interfered with his playing. When he recorded this session in 1957, at age 33, his most incandescent inventions were already behind him, but what remained was a pianist of extraordinary depth, capable of the deepest blues and a rhythmic incisiveness like Thelonious Monk's. And he was still a composer of first-rate bop lines, like "John's Abbey" and "Time Waits," the latter a reference to his once blazing "Tempus Fugue-it." The rhythm section of bassist Sam Jones and drummer Philly Joe Jones is absolutely masterful at the slow and medium tempos that Powell had come to favor, with Jones often prodding the pianist into exuberance. This is the finest of Powell's later recordings, revealing a bop pianist who paled only in comparison with his former self. --Stuart Broomer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - best jazz pianist ever !
As with all of his albums the guy was totally amazing. I find it annoying reading a lot of reviews about this guy's playing that his albums, after say a certain date( none of the reviewers seem to know what this date is ! ) are inferior to albums recorded previously.
All of his recordings are great. I am not a pianist but I do have ears and I do not listen for any non-existent decline in his playing abilities, he is by far the greatest jazz pianist ever, his playing is sublime.
It is ... Read More
Rating:  - Alot of Fun
In 1958 at the Van Gelder Studio, Bud Powell (piano), Sam Jones (bass) and Philly Joe Jones (drums) came together for this, one of Bud's fun later dates.
Handing out the stars for a disc is sometimes a tough call. I really enjoy this disc and have listened to it countless times but I know that sometimes people see 3 stars and think it must stink... or that the reviewer is out of their mind. Neither is true. =)
I give this disc 3 stars in relation to the other 2 discs I just ... Read More
Rating: - Bud Rides Again
Nothing here has the fluidity and dexterity of Powell's earlier recordings, but the intensity is high nonetheless, and the sound quality is flawless, giving it something the earlier recordings don't have.
Buster Rides Again, the album's opener, is one of the greatest cuts I have ever heard. The mid-tempo afro-latin groove pushes Powell to playing explosive rhythmic tone clusters, and the energy between Philly Joe Jones and Powell is uncanny. The problem is, after an inventive opener like this, ... Read More
Rating: - In Walked Bud
"Time Waits" is a classic jazz trio album by one of the great jazz pianists of all time. While Bud Powell's best recordings for Blue Note are from the late 40s and early 50s, captured on the two volumes of "The Amazing Bud Powell," this is one of three sessions he made for the label in 1957-58. (The other two are "Bud!" and "The Scene Changes," and while the former is currently unavailable as single issue, it is available as part of "Bud Powell - The Complete ... Read More
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