Quadromania

Quadromania Artist: Oscar Peterson
Label: Membran/Quadromania Jazz
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 4
EAN: 4011222224682
ASIN: B0007UPSG4


Release Date: 2006-05-03

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Tracks:

  1. Oscar's Blues
  2. For You
  3. Pennies From Heaven
  4. Whispering
  5. Body And Soul
  6. Flying Home
  7. Hungarian Dance
  8. Gypsy In My Soul
  9. (I Don't Stand A) Ghost Of A Chance With You
  10. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
  11. I've Got Rhythm
  12. Tea For Two
  13. Man I Love
  14. Rose Room
  15. Yesterdays
  16. Seven Come Eleven
  17. Just You
  18. To A Wild Rose
  19. Air Mail Special
  20. Night And Day
  21. Get Happy
  22. Laura
  23. These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
  24. You Go To My Head
  25. Seven Come Eleven
  26. 's Wonderful
  27. Oh! Lady Be Good
  28. I Got Rhythm
  29. A Foggy Day
  30. Love Walked In
  31. Ad Lib Blues
  32. Just You, Just Me
  33. Tea For Two
  34. Man I Love
  35. Somebody Loves Me
  36. Strike Up The Band
  37. I've Got A Crush On You
  38. Fascinating Rhythm
  39. Prelude To A Kiss
  40. Just A-Sittin' And Rockin'
  41. Cheek To Cheek
  42. It Ain't Necessarily So
  43. What Is This Thing Called Love
  44. Night And Day
  45. Long Ago And Far Away
  46. Easter Parade
  47. Bounce Blues
  48. Song Is You
  49. Blue Moon
  50. Without A Song
  51. Lady Is A Tramp
  52. I Want To Be Happy
  53. Lover
  54. I Only Have Eyes For You
  55. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
  56. You Must Have Been Beautiful Baby
  57. Come Rain Or Come Shine
  58. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
  59. John Hardy's Wife
  60. What Is This Thing Called Love

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Lacks Variety.......2006-12-19

Musical Content: 3 stars
Recording Quality: 3 stars
Packaging: 2 stars
Bang for the Buck: 3 stars

The selections, recorded between 1950 & 1954, are mostly standards, and mostly 3-4 minutes. CD1, except for one track, are duets with bassist Austin Roberts. Most of CD2 is with the trio consisting of the impeccable Ray Brown on bass and Barney Kessel on guitar. There are a few longer tracks, giving Oscar a chance to stretch out a little, and featuring an uncredited Lester Young on tenor sax. Things pick up on CD3, where halfway through we suddenly get a beautiful "Bounce Blues" featuring Ben Webster on tenor. Then the remaining trio sides feature a more swinging Herb Ellis replacing Barney Kessel on guitar. CD4 is the best: most renditions stretching over 4 minutes. The last track really shines; a 15 minute jam on "What Is This Thing Called Love", featuring Charlie Parker, Charlie Shavers, Benny Carter, Flip Phillips, Ben Webster, Barney Kessel, Ray Brown, and J.C. Heard from Norman Granz's JATP "Charlie Parker Jam Session". But that there were more on here like that! But there is a chronic sameness to the variations on most of the standards on these CDs that fails to excite me. Nice renditions, they just seem too tame and predictable to my ears. The only time Oscar seems to really cut loose is on the 5 horn tracks. The rest seems a bit like jazz for people who don't really like jazz.

Sound quality is better than most Quadromania CDs, coming as it does from a later time period than most of them. Bass could be more solid, the better to hear Ray Brown with. And like most Q disks, the high end seems a bit dull, especially impacting the tracks with horns. The guitar seems too far pushed back in the mix on a lot of the trio sides. One of the Lester Young sides on CD2 is hideously distorted. I have the authorized JATP Parker Jam, and the Quadromania track suffers mightily by comparison.

The otherwise well-designed 4 disk jewel case frequently fails to hold the disks in place during transport. Documentation is limited to Title, Date, and musicians (no credit for Prez on CD2, though). No autobiographical or other information.

Some of the better tracks here are duplicated on the Ben Webster Quadromania CD. Recommend buying that instead of this.

5 out of 5 stars 4 CDs of outstanding music, for a Wow! price.........2006-05-26

This ranks right up there with the better Oscar Peterson CDs (namely the "Exclusively for my friends" CDs) the sound is excellent for the most part and the performances are top notch. And the price can't be beat! I was skeptical of this due to the low price for a 4-CD set, but ended up being pleasantly surprised with the recording quality. The CD case is somewhat fragile, that would be my only complaint. The fingers that hold the disks in place tend to break off rather easily.

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  5. Currents ~ Jon Gordon
  6. Mohican & the Great Spirit ~ Ed Neumeister
  7. Mabern's Grooveyard ~ Harold Mabern Trio
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