At the Concertgebouw

At the Concertgebouw Artist: Oscar Peterson
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 731452164926
EAN: 0731452164926
ASIN: B0000046T4


Release Date: 1994-07-26

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Listmania:

  1. Important Jazz Recordings!!!!!!!

Tracks:

  1. The Lady Is A Tramp
  2. We'll Be Together Again
  3. Bluesology
  4. Budo (AKA 'Hallucinations')
  5. I've Got The World On A String
  6. Daahoud
  7. When Lights Are Low
  8. Evrev
  9. Should I?
  10. Big Fat Mama
  11. (Back Home Again In) Indiana
  12. Joy Spring
  13. Elevation

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  1. The Oscar Peterson Trio at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Always my first recommendation.......2004-09-30

Anyone new to Jazz piano, or even if just new to Oscar Peterson, this is always my first recommendation. I am of course biased because this set of recordings is very personal to me. My first exposures to jazz piano were through Kevin Hayes and then Bill Evans, both of which I adored. Then about 12 years ago I stumbled across someones "best of" list of Jazz piano albums, which this recording was on. I bought it and from that moment on I finnally "got it". Not just jazz piano, but the modern jazz fusion movement as a whole finnally made sense to me. I did not get Miles, Theloneous or any of the greats until I heard this CD. Petersons style as a predecesor to these greats filled in the missing puzzle peice for me. But that aside and with my now understanding of the music I still think this recording stands on its own two feet with no problem at all. The only way to appreciate Peterson is through live recordings. Hearing his scat singing as he played, way in the background, not intensionally recorded, only adds to the power of the music. Here we also have Herb Ellis and Ray Brown, arguably the best Peterson line up ever A completely underrated recording which deserves serious attension from any die hard jazz fan and from people new to it as well.

5 out of 5 stars This could be the one........2002-07-17

People sometimes ask me which Oscar Peterson album to own if it can be only one. There are two astounding albums by Oscar in the 1950s that capture him in peak form--"At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival" and "At the Concertgebouw." On both, Oscar expends enormous amounts of technical mastery, emotional/physical energy, and uninhibited vocalizations (which he would tone down as he got older and wiser). As Ray Brown has indicated, this trio, with Herb Ellis' guitar, could play both faster and slower than could the subsequent editions which replaced Ellis with a drummer. (Jeff Hamilton once told me that playing drums with Oscar was like grabbing on to a rope and hanging on for dear life.) I don't think it makes much difference which of the two you pick up--except that this European session (actually recorded in Chicago), for some reason, tends to get bypassed in favor of the Canadian date. Neither of the two recordings has great fidelity, but the sound of the unamplified bass is a far more accurate representation of what the group actually sounded like than the overly equalized bass frequencies of later recordings. Base your selection on price, favorite songs, and convenience.

5 out of 5 stars Meet Oscar Peterson: the King of swing.......1999-02-03

Whatever his critics may say, there is noone who swings quite as hard as O.P. While this is neither the funkiest nor the most sensitive of his albums, (for those you'd have to try 'Two Originals: Walking the line' and 'Night Train', respectively) it is certainly the place for those who don't know the man and his music to start. It will blow you away and introduce a whole new dimension of piano playing.

4 out of 5 stars New to O.P ? This is a good place to start! Jazz at it's bes.......1998-08-31

This is one of my favourit O.P records. It is one of the jazz albums that really make you listen carefully, while thinking : WHAT ! O.P, Ray Brown and Herb Ellis are swinging - HARD. So buy it, borrow it, whatever - and be surprised. You will not be disapointed!

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