BEN WEBSTER MEETS OSCAR PETERSON (1959)
1. The Touch Of Your LIps
2. When Your Lover Has Gone
3. Bye, Bye, Blackbird
4. How Deep Is The Ocean?
5. In The Wee, Small Hours Of The Morning
6. Sunday
7. This Can't Be Love
On this 1959 date, Webster teams up with the Oscar Peterson Trio (Ray Brown, bass, and Ed Thigpen, drums) and some very luscious, at times brilliant, music is the result. Webster's deeply emotional renditions of "When Your Lover Has Gone" and "In the Wee, Small Hours of the Morning" are testament to Webster's ability to capture the essence of a tune and put his inimitable stamp on it. Indeed, there are very few tenor saxophonists who can truly duplicate Webster's feel for a ballad, nor come up with anything that tops it.
Peterson is in top form on this release as well. He plays ballads with great restraint, sensing that the best way to accompany this tenor legend is by staying out of his way. However, on the one uptempo track, "Sunday," Peterson takes the reigns playing a technically virtuosic solo that harks back to both Art Tatum (his mentor) and embraces modern bebop stylings. Finally, Ed Thigpen's superb brush work adds the finishing touches to what amounts to a truly enjoyable mainstream jazz listen.
Personnel: Ben Webster (tenor saxophone); Oscar Peterson (piano); Ray Brown (bass); Ed Thigpen (drums).
OSCAR PETERSON & STÉPHANE GRAPPELLI - JAZZ IN PARIS (2001)
1. Them There Eyes
2. Flamingo
3. Makin' Whoopee
4. Looking At You
5. Walkin' My Baby Back Home
6. My One And Only Love
7. Thou Swell
Stéphane Grappelli: violin
Oscar Peterson: piano
Niels-Henning Orsted Petersen: bass
Kenny Clarke: drums
1. The Lamp Is Low
2. Never Say Yes
3. Summer Samba
4. Lil' Darlin'
5. Medley: I Concentrate on You
6. You Look Good to Me
7. Let's Fall in Love
8. Someday My Prince Will Come
9. On a Clear Day
10. Waltz for Debby
11. Noreen's Nocturne
Oscar Peterson, piano
Sam Jones, bass
Bobby Durham, drums
OSCAR PETERSON - THE VERVE SILVER COLLECTION
Oscar Peterson did most of his recordings for Verve with his trio, but occasionally he was heard with larger ensembles. Much of the material on ths CD compilation finds Peterson interpreting well-known standards surrounded by a large ensemble arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle. Four superb tracks with the trio round out this collection.
01. My Foolish Heart
02. 'Round Midnight
03. Someday My Prince Will Come
04. Come Sunday
05. Nightingale
06. My Ship
07. A Sleepin' Bee
08. Portrait of Jenny
09. Goodbye
10. Con Alma
11. Maidens of Cadiz
12. My Heart Stood Still
13. Woody 'N You
All tracks recorded in Los Angeles (tracks 1-9) and Chicago (tracks 10-13), between 1959 and 1963. Original sessions prduced by Jim Davis and Norman Granz.
THE OSCAR PETERSON TRIO - LIVE FROM CHICAGO (1961)
1. I've Never Been In Love Before
2. Wee Small Hours
3. Chicago That Toddling Town
4. Night We Called It A Day
5. Sometimes I'm Happy
6. Whisper Not
7. Billy Boy
The Oscar Peterson Trio with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen lacked the competitiveness of his earlier group with Brown and guitarist Herb Ellis, and the later daring of his solo performances, but the pianist was generally in peak form during this era. He sticks to standards on this live CD (a good example of the Trio's playing), stretching out "Sometimes I'm Happy" creatively for over 11 minutes and uplifting such songs as "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," "Chicago" and "The Night We Called It a Day." Few surprises occur, but Peterson plays at such a consistently high level that one doesn't mind. ~ Scott Yanow
01. Oscar's Blues
02. For You
03. Pennies from Heaven
04. Whispering
05. Body and Soul
06. Flying Home
07. Hungarian Dance
08. Gypsy in My Soul
09. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
10. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
11. I Got Rhythm
12. Tea for Two
13. The Man I Love
14. Rose Room
15. Yesterdays
16. Seven Come Eleven
17. Just You
18. To a Wild Rose
19. Air Mail Special
20. Night and Day
21. Get Happy
OSCAR PETERSON - 20 ALL-TIME JAZZ FAVORITES (1999)
01. I got rhythm
02. Time on my hands
03. China boy
04. Flying home
05. Blue moon
06. The honeydripper
07. Sweet Lorraine
08. Running wild
09. East of the sun (and West of the moon)
10. I surrender dear
11. Margie
12. Indiana
13. Oscar's boogie
14. I don't stand a ghost of a change
15. The shadow of your smile
16. Poor Butterfly
17. Sleepy time gal
18. Rockin' in rhythm
19. Stairway to the stars
20. Sweet Georgia Brown
1. Night Train The Oscar Peterson Trio
2. Woody 'N You
3. Willow Weep For Me
4. Younger Than Springtime
5. West Coast Blues
6. Love For Sale
7. Noreen's Nocturne
8. O.P.
9. Blues Etude
10. Gal In Calico
11. D & E
12. Bossa Beguine
13. Evrev
14. Honey Dripper
15. Someday My Prince Will Come
Personnel: Oscar Peterson (piano); Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel (guitar); James Moody , Jerome Richardson, Norris Turney, Seldon Powell, George Dorsey, Cannonball Adderley (reeds); Clark Terry, Ernie Royal, Nat Adderley, Roy Eldridge, Snooky Young, Jimmy Nottingham (trumpet); Morris Secon, Julius Watkins, Willie Ruff, James Buffington, Ray Alonge (French horn); Jimmy Cleveland, Melba Liston, Slide Hampton, Paul Faulise, Britt Woodman (trombone); Don Butterfield (tuba); Ed Thigpen, Louis Hayes (drums).
1. Sally's Tomato
2. Sunny
3. By The Time I Get To Phoenix
4. Wandering
5. This Guy's In Love With You
6. Wave
7. Dreamsville
8. Yesterday
9. Eleanor Rigby
10. Ode To Billy Joe
Limited edition Japanese pressing of the 1969 album has been remastered and is packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. MPS. 2005. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
OSCAR PETERSON TRIO - A JAZZ PORTRAIT OF FRANK SINATRA (1959)
2. Come Dance With Me
3. Learnin The Blues
4. Witchcraft
5. The Tender Trap
6. Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night In The Week)
7. Just In Time
8. It Happened In Monterey
9. I Get A Kick Out Of You
10. All Of Me
11. Birth Of The Blues
12. How About You
A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra may not be top-shelf OP, but it is a most attractive and illuminating set. Recorded in Paris in May 1959, it marked drummer Ed Thigpen's Peterson debut--though such is the group's three-in-one empathy that you'd never think so. Three months later they recorded over 100 titles in the space of a fortnight, the majority a reprise of Peterson's 10-album Songbook series from 1952-1954, and the ethos of this precursor is very similar, with its accent on beautifully crafted tributes to the American popular song at its finest. The performances are short, but anything but perfunctory: Peterson's arrangements are as distinguished for imagination as for appositeness, and those arrangements--even more than his glorious pianism--are the key to this portrait's enduring success. Bassist Ray Brown is just awesome, and not even the decidedly modest playing time should stop you from adding this to your collection without delay. --Richard Palmer
OSCAR PETERSON & JON FADDIS (1975)
2. Autumn Leaves
3. Take the "A" Train
4. Blues for Birks
5. Summertime
6. Lester Leaps In
Oscar Peterson Main Performer, Piano
Norman Granz Producer
Jon Faddis Trumpet
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