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An Oscar Peterson Christmas
Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; What Child Is This?; Let It Snow; White Christmas; Jingle Bells; I'll Be Home For Christmas; Santa Claus Is Coming To Town; O Little Town of Bethlehem; The Christmas Waltz; Have Yourself A Merry Christmas; Silent Night; Winter Wonderland; Away In A Manger; O Christmas Tree
Oscar Peterson: An Oscar Peterson Christmas
by Robert Gilbert
Like a delicious holiday turkey, An Oscar Peterson Christmas is nothing fancy, but easy to digest and something to look forward to every year. The legendary Canadian pianist works his way through fourteen Christmas standards with a quartet featuring Lorne Lofsky on guitar, Dave Young on bass and Jerry Fuller on drums. Guesting on a couple ...
Oscar Peterson: Solo
by C. Michael Bailey
Canada's (and our) treasure... It is gratifying when previously unreleased material from a consistently fine artist like Oscar Peterson reaches the digital impression of the compact disc. Impresario Norman Granz was fortunate to have the talent of Mr. Peterson on his Clef, Verve, and Pablo labels over the period of 1950 to 1986. Having appeared on ...
Ray Brown: A Jazz Odyssey
by C. Andrew Hovan
While it seems that things have come to a point in the history of jazz when many of the music's elder statesmen are leaving us and there are fewer and fewer masters left to pass on the proverbial flame, 75-year-old bassist Ray Brown continues to champion the mainstream cause while inflecting his own music with the ...
On the Town
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2001
Track listing: Sweet Georgia Brown, Should I?, When Lights are Low, Easy Listenin' Blues, Pennies From Heaven, The Champ, Moonlight in Vermont, Baby, Baby All the Time, I Like to Recognize the Tune, Joy Spring, Gal in Calico, Love is Here to Stay.
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
Oscar Peterson: On the Town
by David Rickert
Oscar Peterson is one of the musicians responsible for bringing jazz to a wider audience, and it's easy to understand why from listening to any of his instantly appealing records. He took the knuckle-busting runs of Art Tatum and wedded them to the delicate approach of Nat King Cole in a series of accomplished trio recordings, ...
Oscar Peterson: Oscar's Ballads
by AAJ Staff
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 ...
