Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Songbook | ||||
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Released | May 1960 | |||
Recorded | July 14–August 9, 1959 at Universal Recorders, Chicago, IL | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Verve | |||
Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Songbook is an album by Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, which was recorded in 1959.[3] It was reissued in 2001 combined with the 1954 recording Oscar Peterson Plays Harold Arlen.
Track listing
[edit]Original 1959 track listing.
- "As Long as I Live" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
- "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
- "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Arlen, Mercer)
- "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "I've Got the World on a String" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "That Old Black Magic" (Arlen, Mercer)
- "Let's Fall in Love" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "Stormy Weather" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen, E. Y. Harburg)
- "Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" (Arlen, Harburg)
- "The Man that Got Away" (Arlen, Ira Gershwin)
- "Ill Wind" (Arlen, Koehler)
2001 Reissue track listing:
- "As Long as I Live" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Arlen, Mercer)
- "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Arlen, Mercer)
- "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "I've Got the World on a String" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Arlen, Harburg, Billy Rose)
- "That Old Black Magic" (Arlen, Mercer)
- "Let's Fall in Love" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "Stormy Weather" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "Blues in the Night" (Arlen, Mercer)
- "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen, Harburg)
- "Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" (Arlen, Harburg)
- "Stormy Weather" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen, Harburg)
- "The Man that Got Away" (Arlen, I. Gershwin)
- "Ill Wind" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "Let's Fall in Love" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "As Long as I Live" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Arlen, Mercer)
- "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" (Arlen, Mercer)
- "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "I've Got the World on a String" (Arlen, Koehler)
- "That Old Black Magic" (Arlen, Mercer)
Personnel
[edit]- Oscar Peterson – piano
- Ray Brown – double bass
- Ed Thigpen – drums
- Herb Ellis – guitar (on titles taken from Oscar Peterson Plays Harold Arlen)
References
[edit]- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1152. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Allmusic entry for Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Songbook