West Side Story: Oscar Peterson Trio

Artist: Oscar Peterson
Label: Dcc Compact Classics
Category: Music

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Format: Gold CD
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 010963106824
EAN: 0010963106824
ASIN: B00000017Q

Release Date: 1994-08-29

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Tracks:

Something's Coming
Somewhere
Jet Song
Tonight
Maria
I Feel Pretty
Reprise

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Customer Reviews:

fantastic trio!.......2006-06-25

one of the very best trio albums of all time! these musicians were joined with some of the greatest & most difficult music to play, & they nailed it! highly recommended!

Played it for months..........2005-12-28

and nearly everyone in the workplace mourned the day I took it off the cd changer. It resonates with a lyrical beauty and sadness rarely accomplished in jazz. It touched one who sat in the voice room, as well.

Simply amazing...one of the all time best CDs.......2005-06-12

I already love the soundtrack to West Side Story, and the thought of redoing it never even crossed my mind. Then I saw Oscar Peterson in concert in Oakland, CA at Yoshis and being caught up in the moment after the show I bought this CD. It is simply one of the greatest CDs of all time. Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, and Ed Thigpen bring new life to a soundtrack that didn't even need "new life," but it is simply amazing. If you like jazz at all and/or like West Side Story this is a MUST buy. Oscar Peterson does not let down and brushes those keys with such feeling that it will take you aback. He is truly one of the last living "greats" and everyone needs to buy this CD. Like a previous review said...the only negative about this album is that America was not included but that's alright. Even if you're not into jazz, after listening to this...you just might be.

I would give it 6 stars.......2004-09-18

I would give it 6 stars if the missing song 'america' was there. The essence of Bernstein music is captured nicely here by Peterson's transcription. But the trio appropriates it, and really makes it its own: it does sound like the tunes are the standardest of the jazz standards. I had my friend listen to it, who does not like jazz too much ('only with lyrics', he claims). He feared the worst, like another kenny g-ish/musak version for the hotel elevator, and he kept back absolutely enchanted.
The cd is very short, and I really do wish they could unearth a few more songs, especially of 'i want to be in America'.

great jazz/ musical crossover.......2002-02-01

Oscar Peterson has found the perfect balance between staying true to the leonard bernstein soundtrack and jazz improv... its heaven and I could listen to it for hours on end...

I was stuck at the warped tour, a punk rock concert, in traffic when a group of kids asked me if I had any classical music...all I had was this, so I gave it to them, and those punks loved it.

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