Oscar Peterson – Oscar Peterson Plays The Richard Rodgers Songbook

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Label:	Solar Records (4) – 4569893
Format:	CD, Album, Compilation, Reissue
Country:	Europe
Released:	2011
Genre:	Jazz
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Tracklist

1	This Can't Be Love	2:34
2	It Might As Well Be Spring	3:02
3	Johnny One Note	1:42
4	The Surrey With The Fringe On Top	2:34
5	The Lady Is A Tramp	2:06
6	Blue Moon	2:45
7	Manhattan	2:56
8	Isn't It Romantic?	2:19
9	Lover	2:03
10	I Didn't Know What Time It Was	2:39
11	Bewitched	2:54
12	My Funny Valentine	2:46
13	Thou Swell	2:30
14	Spring Is Here	2:49
15	You Are Too Beautiful	3:36
16	Isn't It Romantic?	3:53
17	This Can't Be Love	3:04
18	Blue Moon	2:57
19	The Lady Is A Tramp	2:55
20	It Might As Well Be Spring	3:10
21	Bewitched	2:34
22	Johnny One Note	2:31
23	The Surrey With The Fringe On Top	3:56
24	Lover	7:17
25	Manhattan	3:42

Credits

Artwork – Merle Shore
Bass – Ray Brown
Drums – Ed Thigpen (tracks: 1-12)
Guitar – Barney Kessel (tracks: 13-25)
Music By, Composed By – Richard Rodgers
Piano – Oscar Peterson

Notes

Tracks 1-12 recorded in Chicago, July 21 & August 1,1959
Track 13 recorded in Los Angeles, May-June, 1952
Track 14 recorded in New York, May 21, 1953
Tracks 15-16 recorded in Los Angeles, December 6, 1953
Track 17-24 recorded in Los Angeles, December 7, 1953
Track 25 recorded in Los Angeles, December 10, 1953

This edition presents, for the first time ever on CD, the complete original 1959 album Oscar Peterson Plays The Richard Rodgers Songbook (Verve MG V6-2057), featuring the Oscar Peterson trio with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen. For this extended edition, we have added various Richard Rodgers compositions recorded by the Peterson trio with Brown and Barney Kessel on guitar. Taped during 1952-1953, these recordings mark Peterson's first attempt at a Richard Rodgers Song Book. Most of them were first issued on the LP Oscar Peterson play Richard Rodgers (Clef MGC 624), which appears here in its entirety along with further isolated recordings of Rodgers' tunes.

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Barcode: 8 436028 697885

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
New Submission	Oscar Peterson Plays The Richard Rodgers Songbook (LP, Compilation, Reissue, Stereo)	Verve Records	MG V-2057	US	1959
New Submission	Oscar Peterson Plays The Richard Rodgers Songbook (LP, Compilation, Reissue, Stereo)	Verve Records	MG VS-6088	US	1959
New Submission	Oscar Peterson Plays The Richard Rodgers Songbook (Reel-To-Reel, 7 ½ ips, ¼", 4-Track Stereo, 7" Cine Reel, Album)	Verve Records	Verve VSTC-231	US	1966
New Submission	Oscar Peterson Plays The Richard Rodgers Songbook (LP, Album)	Verve Records	SGVL 51-018	Italy	1968
New Submission	Oscar Peterson Plays The Richard Rodgers Songbook (LP, Compilation, Reissue)	WaxTime	771716	Europe	2011