Songbooks - Oscar Peterson

Songbooks

Compilation by Oscar Peterson

Released 4 June 2012

Tracklist

CD 1: Porter Songbook
1
What Is This Thing Called Love?
3:10
2
Begin the Beguine
3:11
3
I've Got You Under My Skin
2:29
4
Love for Sale
3:12
5
Let's Do It
2:55
6
I Love You
3:05
7
So Near and Yet So Far
3:21
8
Just One of Those Things
3:01
9
In the Still of the Night
3:00
10
Night and Day
3:41
11
Every Time We Say Goodbye
3:25
12
Anything Goes
2:57
13
In the Still of the Night
2:51
14
It's All Right With Me
2:53
15
Love for Sale
3:28
16
Just One of Those Things
2:23
17
I've Got You Under My Skin
2:50
18
Every Time We Say Goodbye
2:20
19
Night and Day
2:33
20
You'd Be So Easy to Love
2:36
21
Why Can't You Behave
3:00
22
I Love Paris
2:11
23
I Concentrate on You
3:11
24
It's De-Lovely
2:31
5.0 ★
CD 2: Ellington Songbook
1
John Hardy's Wife
3:22
2
Sophisticated Lady
2:59
3
Things Ain't What They Used to Be
3:13
4
Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'
3:42
5
In a Mellow Tone
3:08
6
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
3:13
7
Prelude to a Kiss
3:17
8
Cotton Tail
3:50
9
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
3:58
10
Take the "A" Train
3:17
11
Rockin' in Rhythm
2:54
12
Never No Lament (Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me)
2:50
13
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
2:33
14
Sophisticated Lady
2:26
15
Rockin' in Rhythm
2:15
16
Prelude to a Kiss
2:31
17
In a Mellow Tone
3:42
18
Cotton Tail
2:23
19
Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'
2:57
20
Things Ain't What They Used to Be
3:06
21
Take the "A" Train
3:04
22
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
3:12
23
Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
2:16
24
John Hardy's Wife
2:35
CD 3: Gershwin Songbook
1
The Man I Love
3:32
2
Fascinating Rhythm
2:57
3
It Ain't Necessarily So
3:14
4
Somebody Loves Me
3:22
5
Strike Up the Band
3:15
6
I've Got a Crush on You
2:53
7
I Was Doing All Right
2:42
8
's Wonderful
2:38
4.0 ★
9
Oh, Lady, Be Good!
3:50
10
I Got Rhythm
3:17
11
A Foggy Day
3:38
12
Love Walked In
3:08
13
It Ain't Necessarily So
2:46
14
The Man I Love
3:07
15
Love Walked In
2:47
16
I Was Doing All Right
2:48
17
A Foggy Day
2:53
18
Oh, Lady, Be Good!
3:00
4.0 ★
19
Love Is Here to Stay
2:57
20
They All Laughed
2:29
3.0 ★
21
Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
2:18
22
Summertime
2:55
23
Nice Work If You Can Get It
2:05
24
Shall We Dance?
2:24
4.0 ★

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Oscar in Paris: Oscar Peterson Live at the Salle Pleyel

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Oscar Peterson Meets Roy Hargrove and Ralph Moore

Oscar Peterson Meets Roy Hargrove and Ralph Moore 1996

Release credits

Alvin Stoller
drums (drum set) [8]
Barney Kessel
guitar [1.1-3, 1.3-6, 1.6-12, 3.8]
Ed Thigpen
drums (drum set) [2.3, 2.6-7, 2.15-16, 2.20, 2.22-23, 3.13-24, 1.13-16, 1.16-24]
Norman Granz
producer [2.3, 2.6-7, 2.15-16, 2.20, 2.22-23, 1.13-24]
Oscar Peterson
piano [3.8, 3.13-24, 1.1-3, 1.3-6, 1.6-16, 1.16-24, 2.3, 2.6-7, 2.15-16, 2.20, 2.22-23]
Ray Brown
bass [1.1-7, 1.9-24, 3.13-24], double bass [3.8, 1.3, 1.6, 1.8, 1.16, 2.3, 2.6-7, 2.15-16, 2.20, 2.22-23]

Issues

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Songbooks
3x CD
4 June 2012