Search - Zoot Sims, Kenny Clarke, Bud Powell :: Bud Powell - Live at the Blue Note Café, Paris 1961

Bud Powell moved to Paris, France at the end of March 1959. By years end, Bud, drummer Kenny Clarke and bassist Pierre Michelot teamed up for a two-year residency, occasionally joined by famous guests passing through town. Producer Alan Douglas recorded them in 1961, capturing a typical trio set of standards and bebop favorites. Earlier in the year, saxophonist Zoot Sims was captured sitting in. Powell's post-1953 work can be erratic, but sometimes, as in these concerts, he had good nights, and the greater expressiveness of his later years has its own attractions.