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Oscar's Ballads

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Harcourt Nights, If You Only Knew, When Summer Comes, Nighttime, Love Ballade, Tranquille, Ecstasy, Peace For South Africa

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Article: Album Review

Oscar Peterson: Oscar's Ballads

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 2001

With Oscar's Ballads, we are reminded that, behind Oscar Peterson's blazing swing--with his furious pace that launched a thousand riffs, not to mention hundreds of imitators--Peterson's solo construction and compositional talent rely on logically appealing and personalized modulations. Underlying his signature technique, Peterson lays down a foundation of harmonic richness and internal chord movement that usually ...