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Trail Of Dreams: A Canadian Suite
Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Open Spaces, Morning in Newfoundland, The Okanagan Valley, Dancetron, Ballad To P.E.I., Cookin
Oscar Peterson: Trail Of Dreams: A Canadian Suite
by AAJ Staff
As musicians mature, it seems they return to their original sources of musical inspiration, as David Sanchez did with Melaza or Danilo Pérez did with Motherland or Gonzalo Rubalcaba did with Antiguo. Well, Oscar Peterson attained maturity quite a while ago, and he wrote about his native country, Canada, in the 1960’s when he recorded Canadiana: ...
Oscar Peterson Quartet: Night Child
by Derek Taylor
Oscar Peterson is easily one of the most prolific pianists in the history of jazz music. His unrestrained and arguably self-indulgent recording career has periodically come under critical fire for its homogeneity and lack of appreciable innovative spirit. Still, his prowess in front of the keys is difficult to slight and his work on this disc ...
Oscar Peterson (OJC: Night Child
by Douglas Payne
This 1979 quartet recording makes an ideal blindfold test for the most practiced of jazz piano admirers. From the “oscillating Martianisms" on electric piano of the moody opening track, “Solar Winds," to the rollicking cop-show funk (!) of “Teenager," it would be difficult to name - or convince the listener - that this is ...
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