With Respect to Nat

Artist: Oscar Peterson Trio
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 731455748628
EAN: 0731455748628
ASIN: B000009DGQ

Release Date: 1998-07-21

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Tracks:

When My Sugar Walks Down The Street
It's Only A Paper Moon
Walkin' My Baby Back Home
Sweet Lorraine
Unforgettable
Little Girl
Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You?
Orange Colored Sky
Straighten Up And Fly Right
Calypso Blues
What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry?
Easy Listening Blues (Instrumental)

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Customer Reviews:

If you love Oscar or Nat..........2007-02-12

My grandfather was a jazz musician in KC who played with Oscar and "Herbie" back in the day. Somehow this album ended up in my dad's collection before I was even born, and by the time I was a toddler, it had become one of my favorites. Just about anything Oscar has ever recorded entertains me, but I come back to this album time and time again. Listening to the tunes, it's easy to forget that you're listening to Oscar's voice, as he really does sound much like Nat. But the nuances of his vocal interpretations are just delightful. Oscar said he recorded the album under duress from Norman Granz, but thank goodness that he did. This is more than a novelty or tribute album. It's a rare document of a side of Oscar Peterson that few outside his inner circle knew he posessed, and it's a must for any Oscar Peterson devotee.

Oscar gives Nat his due.......2002-01-24

This was my first Oscar Peterson CD, and I truly enjoyed it. It was one of the very first tribute LPs dedicated to the late Nat "King" Cole. It was recorded about a year after Nat passed away, and Oscar pays his idol the highest respect with this album. AS Cole's favorite jazz pianist, Peterson adopted a large part of his style from NKC when he played with his successful King Cole Trio in the late 1930s and into the '40s. When you hear Peterson's interpretations of Nat's work, you will say that he is one of the few artists that can truly capture the feeling of Cole's Trio days.

And I was pleasantly surprized to hear Oscar's singing voice...he sounds amazingly like Nat vocally as well as instrumentally. He said he didn't want to sing (much like Nat didn't want to do early in his career) because he sounded so much like Nat, he didn't want to suffer by comparison. So playing the piano seemed to be a better move for him.

On this CD, Oscar flows through the songs with grace and ease, just as Nat had done. He makes you take a second listen to songs like "Unforgettable" and "Calypso Blues", that have the Cole-like delivery, but have different arrangements. So you get a whole new twist on these classic tunes, but it doesn't rob the tunes of their sentimentality and humor. My favorite on this CD is the instrumental "Easy Listening Blues", which is incidentally one of my King Cole Trio favorites as well. The similarities in Peterson's pianistics to those that Nat used are uncanny. Oscar Peterson is a musician who was worthy of taking up where Nat left off. I intend to purchase other CDs by him. Pick this one up.

Oscar plays tribute to Nat........2000-06-28

"My favorite instrument" is probably one of the first CD's made by Oscar. Both Oscar and Nat used to have trio's and made the piano-jazz lovers sway and dream with their bright interpretatons, nuances and even a sometimes hum or just plain singing with the tune. This is a "must" for know-hows, who will enjoy time after time these lovely melodies, interpreted with devotion, love and joy! "

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