Jazz / Bop; Swing
Recorded:
* Tracks 1-12: November 1954, Radio Recorders, Hollywood
* Tracks 13, 14, 16, and 18-24. Tracks 15 and 17 July 21-August 1, 1959, Universal Recording Studios, Chicago.
Oscar Peterson - Piano
Herb Ellis - Guitar
Ray Brown - Bass
Ed Thigpen - Drums
What could be a better pairing than Oscar Peterson, the pianist who most effectively parlayed jazz virtuosity into a popular following that extended far beyond the jazz world, and Harold Arlen, the Tin Pan Alley-based writer of Broadway and film scores whose songs always had a close kinship to jazz and the blues?
In 1954, Peterson and his trio devoted an entire album to Arlen’s music. Five years later, he and his new trio did it again. This reissue combines both sessions. |
