Bouncing with Bud, also known as Bebop in Pastel, is a 1946 bebop jazz standard composed by Bud Powell with Gil Fuller. It was recorded on August 23, 1946 with Sonny Stitt on alto sax and Kenny Dorham on trumpet for Savoy, and released in this period under the title Bebop in Pastel. The tune is in B-flat major and follows an A-A'-B-A' form with an eight-bar interlude that is not played during solos, with an introduction that ascends and modulates between Bbmaj7#11 and B7b5 before resolving to Bb via a tritone substitution. Powell first publicly performed the piece as Bouncing with Bud in a 1949 Blue Note session with Sonny Rollins, Fats Navarro, Tommy Potter and Roy Haynes, a recording often mistaken as the original. He later cut a trio version as the title track of his 1962 Delmark album Bouncing with Bud. The tune has been widely covered by artists including Hank Mobley with Donald Byrd, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Charles McPherson, and Keith Jarrett.
