Jazz / Bop; Swing; Mainstream Jazz
Recorded: July 5, 1958, Town Tavern, Toronto
Oscar Peterson - Piano
Ray Brown - Bass
Herb Ellis - Guitar
Two of the Oscar Peterson Trio's greatest recorded live performances took place in the leader's native Canada. The first was the classic Stratford (Ontario) Shakespearean Festival concert. The second was On the Town With the Oscar Peterson Trio , at the Town Tavern -- in what became Peterson's adopted city, Toronto.
The repertoire includes a half-dozen pieces that are jazz classics, three of them among the most-recorded songs in all of popular music. And Oscar Peterson has his greatest accompaniment here -- Herb Ellis and Ray Brown were at the peak of their unprecedented synchronicity, the result of tireless rehearsing in order to perfect rhythmic patterns in support of their leader. |
