Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell

Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell is a studio album by jazz pianist Bud Powell, released in 1956 by Norgran,[4] featuring two sessions that Powell recorded at Fine Sound Studios in New York in April 1955.

The sessions (with alternate takes) are also available on The Complete Bud Powell on Verve (1994) CD box set.

The version of "Willow Grove" on the Piano Interpretations album is a different tune than the original tune of the same title, composed by Powell and fellow bebop pianist Walter Davis Jr. during and shortly after his time at Creedmoor Hospital.

Powell had forgotten the original, following electroshock therapy and wrote the new version of the tune at the studio.

[6] DownBeat's critics praised the album, praising Taylor and Duvivier and noting about Powell personally, "[T]his is one of Bud’s better sets in the last couple of years and indicates what is finally being realized by some of those who have control over him—that Bud is in increasing control over himself, and that it is no longer necessarily true that the best of Bud is behind him.