CD4: Tea For Two Time On My Hands I Know That You Know Sometimes I'm Happy Great Day More Than You Know Hallelujah! Carioca Without A Song I Want To Be Happy Nagasaki Serenade In Blue Lullaby Of Broadway I Found A Million Dollar Baby In A Five And Ten Cent Store Would You Like To Take A Walk I'll String Along With You I Only Have Eyes For You You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me Chattanooga Choo Choo You're My Everything. CD3: The Way You Look Tonight Pick Yourself Up Yesterdays I Won't Dance Long Ago And Far Away Lovely To Look At A Fine Romance Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Ol Man River Bill The Song Is You Can't Help Loving That Man This Can't Be Love It Might As Well Be Spring Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered Johnny One Note Surrey With The Fringe On Top The Lady Is A Tramp Blue Moon Thou Swell Isn't It Romantic Manhattan Lover. Sophisticated Lady Things Ain't What They Used To Be Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin’ In A Mellow Tone I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) Prelude To A Kiss Cotton Tail Don't Get Around Much Anymore Take The "A" Train Rockin' In Rhythm Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me. CD2: The Man I Love Fascinating Rhythm It Ain't Necessarily So Somebody Loves Me Strike Up The Band I've Got A Crush On You I Was Doing All Right 'S Wonderful Oh Lady Be Good I Got Rhythm A Foggy Day Love Walked In John Hardy's Wife.
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These featured songwriters are the greatest contributors to greatness of American music, their tunes interpreted by one of the finest pianists of all time.ĬD1: What Is This Thing Called Love? Begin The Beguine I've Got You Under My Skin Love For Sale Let's Do It I Love You So Near And Yet So Far Just One Of Those Things In The Still Of The Night Night And Day Every Time We Say Goodbye Anything Goes I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm Isn't This A Lovely Day Easter Parade How Deep Is The Ocean (How High Is The Sky) Remember The Song Is Ended Blue Skies If I Had You Cheek To Cheek Alexander's Ragtime Band Always.
Certainly the Cole Porter set will have its adherentsthe disc starts with a peak on that most-covered of Great American Songbook tunes, "What Is This Thing Called Love?," that levels off in a high plateau with "Begin The Beguine" and "I've Got You Under My Skin." Others will go for the George Gershwin or the Duke Ellington sets, or any of the others. The trio is in consistently excellent form here, so picking of a favorite of these jewels will probably depend on personal preference for a favorite among the songwriters involved. It was an approach/style that was fully formed at the time of these recordings. The rapid-fire notes, the unabashed elegance. A touchstone for Peterson's style can be found in the artistry of pianist Art Tatum (1909-1956)the light, sparkling touch, the joyous swing, the uplifting ebullience. Smart marketing combined with impeccable taste and technique and the best songs out there can do that. This three year, ten album project certainly brought his profileat that early stage in the career gameup to the next level. His sound was consistently classy and first rate here, as it was for his entire career. Peterson, born in 1925, was in his mid-to-late twenties at the time these tracks were laid down. This groupalong with pianist Ahmad Jamal's trio of the early fiftiesdefined the piano/guitar/bass line-up.
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Oscar Peterson Plays collects the earlier series of ten albumson five discs, two albums perfeaturing the Oscar Peterson Trio: Peterson on piano, with bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Barney Kessel, with Herb Ellis taking over the guitar chair in the later sessions. This later series was called The Songbooks, released on his Granz' Verve Records label, covering mostly the same songwriters. The idea was a marketing ploy that worked to perfection it worked so well, in fact, that Granz started the same ball rolling in 1959 with another setnine albums this timeembracing the same theme. It started with Cole Porter and ran through George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Vincent Youman, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen and Jimmy McHughten albums in all, over a three year period. Granz had a grand plan: To have this then-promising jazz pianist record a number of albums under the Oscar Peterson Plays tag, each an immersion into a separate Great American Songbook tunesmith.
Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) was just starting what turned out to be terrific career in 1951 when jazz impresario extraordinaire Norman Granz took him into the studio to record Plays Cole Porter (Clef Records, 1952).
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