Description:
Volume eight of the recordings of Oscar Peterson presented in chronological order opens with th final tracks made at an extended date in Los Angeles; most of the resulting material is already out on Classics 1426. When the pianist turns his talents to singing, you can generally be sure that there'll be marked similarities in both. That's how it is with Oscar Peterson. If his piano playing has such items as strength, a light bodied rhythm and a pleasing, insinuating kind of vigor that's what you'll find in his vocal style as well, and this, of course, is all to the good. There's been a marked trend lately in which expert musicians are trying their hand at singing and this, too, is all to the good. " A good singer, in short, must tell a story. Oscar Peterson knows how to tell a story." |
 Don't Get Around Much Anymore
John Hardy's Wife
Always
Easter Parade
Alexander's Ragtime Band
The Song Is Ended
Say It Isn't So
Remember
If I Had You
How Deep Is The Ocean
Streets Boogie
Booker T. Blues
I'm Glad There Is You
Polka Dots And Moonbeams
One For My Baby
I Hear Music
Autumn In New York
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Spring Is Here
The Things We Did Last Summer
Pompton Turnpike |
Personnel: Barney Kessel, Ray Brown |
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