Bud Powell

Featuring: Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Lee Konitz, J.J. Johnson, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Barney Wilen, Zoot Sims, Johnny Griffin

condition (records/covers): NM / NM

Gatefold sleeves.

10 LP bundle (complete series) including the following titles:
Vol. 1 – Early Years Of A Genius 44-48
Vol. 2 – Burning In U.S.A. 53-55
Vol. 3 – Cookin' At Saint-Germain 57-59
Vol. 4 – Relaxin' At Home 61-64
Vol. 5 – Groovin' At The Blue Note 59-61
Vol. 6 – Writin' For Duke 63
Vol. 7 – Tribute To Thelonious 64
Vol. 8 – Holidays In Edenville 64
Vol. 9 – Return To Birdland 64
Vol. 10 – Award At Birdland 64

Francis Paudras was a French commercial artist who befriended Bud Powell in Paris in the early sixties, took him into his home, kept him alive for several years, and recorded him constantly on domestic equipment: in clubs, in apartments, at the piano at three in the morning. The Mythic Sound series drew on that archive and on the Powell family's own holdings, and it remains the deepest documentation of the man's final decade in existence. Some of it is fragile, some of it is magnificent, and all of it is closer to Powell than any studio session ever got.

Complete run of ten LPs. The whole series together, which is how it was meant to be heard and how it almost never turns up.