Songbooks Etcetera - Oscar Peterson

Songbooks Etcetera

Compilation by Oscar Peterson

Released 20 September 2005

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CD 1: Plays Cole Porter & Duke Ellington
1
What Is This Thing Called Love
3:15
2
Begin the Beguine
3:17
3
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
2:34
4
Love for Sale
3:17
5
Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love)
3:00
6
I Love You
3:10
7
So Near and Yet So Far
3:25
8
Just One of Those Things
3:07
9
In the Still of the Night
3:05
10
Night and Day
3:46
11
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
3:31
12
Anything Goes
3:02
13
John Hardy’s Wife
3:27
14
Sophisticated Lady
3:04
15
Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
3:18
16
Just A‐Sittin’ and A‐Rockin’
3:47
17
In a Mellow Tone
3:12
18
I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good
3:17
19
Prelude to a Kiss
3:23
20
Cotton Tail
3:57
21
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
4:04
22
Take the ‘A’ Train
3:22
23
Rockin’ in Rhythm
2:59
24
Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
2:54
CD 2: Plays Irving Berlin & George Gershwin
1
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
2:54
2
Isn’t This a Lovely Day?
3:22
3
Easter Parade
3:18
4
How Deep Is the Ocean?
3:08
5
Remember
3:24
6
The Song Is Ended
3:25
7
Blue Skies
3:05
8
If I Had You
3:15
9
Cheek to Cheek
3:05
10
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
2:55
11
Say It Isn’t So
3:12
12
Always
2:54
13
The Man I Love
3:35
14
Fascinatin’ Rhythm
3:00
15
It Ain’t Necessarily So
3:17
16
Somebody Loves Me
3:25
17
Strike Up the Band
3:19
18
I’ve Got a Crush on You
2:57
19
I Was Doing All Right
2:45
20
’S Wonderful
2:40
4.0 ★
21
Oh, Lady Be Good
3:55
22
I Got Rhythm
3:20
23
A Foggy Day
3:41
24
Love Walked In
3:11
CD 3: Plays Jerome Kern & Richard Rogers
1
The Way You Look Tonight
2:32
2
Pick Yourself Up
3:26
3
Yesterdays
2:37
4
I Won’t Dance
3:08
5
Long Ago and Far Away
3:49
6
Lovely to Look At
2:08
7
A Fine Romance
3:17
8
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
2:54
9
Ol’ Man River
3:25
10
Bill
2:34
11
The Song Is You
2:29
12
Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man
2:43
13
This Can’t Be Love
3:06
14
It Might as Well Be Spring
3:12
15
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
2:34
16
Johnny One Note
2:32
17
The Surrey With the Fringe on Top
3:57
18
The Lady Is a Tramp
2:56
19
Blue Moon
2:58
20
Thou Swell
2:31
21
Isn’t It Romantic
3:54
22
Manhattan
3:46
23
Lover
7:18
CD 4: Plays Vincent Youmans & Harold Arlen
1
Tea for Two
6:15
2
Time on My Hands
2:42
3
I Know That You Know
3:55
4
Sometimes I’m Happy
3:19
5
Great Day
3:14
6
More Than You Know
3:04
7
Hallelujah!
3:25
8
The Carioca
2:56
9
Without a Song
3:01
10
I Want to Be Happy
5:41
11
As Long as I Live
4:24
12
I Gotta a Right to Sing the Blues
5:09
13
Come Rain or Come Shine
4:29
14
Ac‐cent‐tchu‐ate the Positive
3:19
15
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
3:12
16
I’ve Got the World on a String
3:51
17
It’s Only a Paper Moon
3:28
18
That Old Black Magic
3:03
19
Let’s Fall in Love
3:36
20
Stormy Weather
3:37
21
Blues in the Night
3:51
CD 5: Plays Harry Warren & Jimmy McHugh
1
Nagasaki
3:10
2
Serenade in Blue
3:16
3
Lullaby of Broadway
3:12
4
I Found a Million Dollar Baby
4:05
5
Would You Like to Take a Walk
4:22
6
I’ll String Along With You
3:19
7
I Only Have Eyes for You
4:14
8
You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
4:10
9
You’re Getting to Be a Habit With Me
3:52
10
Chattanooga Choo Choo
2:42
11
You’re My Everything
3:41
12
When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
3:28
13
I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love With Me
3:37
14
On the Sunny Side of the Street
3:52
15
Don’t Blame Me
3:08
16
I’m in the Mood for Love
3:57
17
I Can’t Give You Anything but Love
5:27
18
I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night
3:35
19
Diga Diga Doo
5:05
20
You’re a Sweetheart
4:42
CD 6: Sessions With Billie Holiday
1
East of the Sun
2:59
2
Blue Moon
3:31
3
You Go to My Head
2:57
4
You Turned the Tables on Me
3:29
5
Easy to Love
3:02
6
These Foolish Things
3:38
7
I Only Have Eyes for You
2:56
8
Solitude
3:31
9
Everything I Have Is Yours
3:47
10
Love for Sale
2:59
11
Moonglow
3:02
12
Tenderly
3:27
13
If the Moon Turns Green
2:49
14
Remember
2:37
15
Autumn in New York
3:45
16
My Man
2:42
17
Lover Come Back to Me
3:39
18
Stormy Weather
3:46
19
Yesterdays
2:53
20
He’s Funny That Way
3:16
21
I Can’t Face the Music
3:19
22
How Deep Is the Ocean
3:02
23
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
3:16
24
I Cried for You
2:32
CD 7: Sessions With Flip Phillips & Ben Webster Plus Billie Holiday & Harold Arlen (conclusions)
1
Tenderly
3:08
2
Jive at Six
4:16
3
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
3:10
4
That’s All
3:52
5
Bounce Blues
4:36
6
Pennies From Heaven
2:53
7
Cottontail
3:25
8
Danny Boy
3:41
9
Lemon Aid 21
6:34
10
I’ll Never Be the Same
3:44
11
All of Me
5:28
12
I’ve Got the World on a String
4:01
13
Almost Like Being in Love
3:22
14
The Lady’s in Love With You
5:54
15
Singin’ in the Rain
3:20
16
Birth of the Blues
5:35
17
Autumn in New York
3:56
18
Over the Rainbow
3:36
CD 8: Sessions With Diz & Getz and Lester
1
It Don’t Mean a Thing
6:40
2
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
6:19
3
Exactly Like You
5:00
4
It’s the Talk of the Town
6:54
5
Impromptu
7:50
6
Girl of My Dreams
3:22
7
Siboney, Part 1
4:26
8
Siboney, Part 2
4:13
9
Ad Lib Blues
5:54
10
Just You, Just Me
7:41
11
Tea for Two
7:46
12
Almost Like Being in Love
3:35
13
There Will Never Be Another You
3:30
14
I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You)
3:42
CD 9: With Norman Granz’ Jazz at the Philharmonic (Carnegie Hall 1953), Part One
1
Cool Blues…
1:43
2
(Cool Blues…) Oscar Peterson & Flip Phillips
3:27
3
(Cool Blues…) Charlie Shavers
4:09
4
(Cool Blues…) Willie Smith
3:07
5
(Cool Blues…) Bill Harris
2:38
6
(Cool Blues…) Ben Webster
2:37
7
(Cool Blues…) Benny Carter
4:01
8
(Cool Blues…) Roy Eldridge
4:05
9
September Song
2:19
10
Someone to Watch Over Me
2:23
11
Flamingo
2:48
12
I Can’t Get Started
2:29
13
Makin’ Whoopee
2:29
14
The Young Man With a Horn
2:30
15
Embraceable You
3:00
16
Cottontail…
3:47
17
(Cottontail…) Ben Webster
2:40
18
(Cottontail…) Flip Phillips
2:31
19
(Cottontail…) Bill Harris
4:18
20
(Cottontail…) Sparring Partnership of Roy Eldridge & Charlie Shavers
4:15
21
The King
0:12
22
Lollobrigida
4:15
23
Pompton Turnpike
5:27
24
Swinging on a Star
4:34
25
Love for Sale
3:55
CD 10: With Norman Granz’ Jazz at the Philharmonic (Carnegie Hall 1953), Part Two
1
Swingin’ Till the Girls Come Home
5:55
2
Introduction by Norman Granz
0:34
3
Lester’s Blues
4:21
4
I Cover the Waterfront
2:53
5
Lester Leaps In
4:40
6
One O’Clock Jump
14:36
7
Introduction by Norman Granz
0:39
8
Indiana
3:36
9
Somebody Loves Me
4:49
10
Laura
4:03
11
Stompin’ at the Savoy
4:09
12
Flying Home
6:27
13
Concert Blues, Parts 1 & 2 (Improvisations) Oscar Peterson
2:05
14
Concert Blues, Parts 1 & 2 (Improvisations) Ben Webster
2:32
15
Concert Blues, Parts 1 & 2 (Improvisations) Charlie Shavers
2:30
16
Concert Blues, Parts 1 & 2 (Improvisations) Bill Harris
2:08
17
Concert Blues, Parts 1 & 2 (Improvisations) Willie Smith
2:09
18
Concert Blues, Parts 1 & 2 (Improvisations) Herb Ellis
2:03
19
Concert Blues, Parts 1 & 2 (Improvisations) Flip Phillips
2:46
20
Concert Blues, Parts 1 & 2 (Improvisations) Benny Carter
2:46
21
Concert Blues, Parts 1 & 2 (Improvisations) Roy Eldridge
3:24

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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 [2.20, 1.1-3, 1.3-6, 1.6-12]
Buddy Rich
drums (drum set) [14]
Flip Phillips
tenor saxophone [14]
Herb Ellis
guitar [5.12-13, 5.16-17, 7.14]
Oscar Peterson
piano [7.14, 5.12-13, 5.16-17, 1.1-3, 1.3-6, 1.6-12, 2.20]
Ray Brown
bass [1.1-7, 1.9-12, 5.12-13, 5.16-17, 7.14], double bass [1.3, 1.6, 1.8, 2.20]

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Songbooks Etcetera
10x CD
20 September 2005