

Bud Powell is revered as a fiery improviser, yet a sad, stately beauty also suffuses the bebop pianist's catalog. Where the showtune “It Never Entered My Mind” finds him conjuring up muted simplicity with spare chords and lonesome resonance, the original “Time Waits” rests his melancholic lines upon deeply unhurried swing. Even an early side like 1947's “I Should Care” finds his probing runs working within the standard's heavy-hearted despair.