Oscar Peterson Box Due Next Month

Telarc will release The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio: Live at the Blue Note, a historic collection of pianist Peterson’s live recordings made at the Blue Note in New York City, on September 28.

The set collects the previously released albums The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note, Saturday Night at the Blue Note,Last Call at the Blue Note and Encore at the Blue Note, which were recorded between March 16 and 18, 1990. Peterson’s group for these dates included bassist Ray Brown, guitarist Herb Ellis (both from his famous trio of the 1950s) and drummer Bobby Durham (who had been in Peterson’s trio from 1967-70). The discs will feature all-new packaging and the collection will be offered at a special price.

The first disc, The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note, won two Grammys-one for Peterson’s solo playing and one for best small group. The second album, Saturday Night at the Blue Note, won a Grammy for best small group and reached number eight on the Billboard jazz chart. The remaining two recordings, Last Call at the Blue Note and Encore at the Blue Note, were both bestsellers on the Billboard jazz chart.

Alyn Shipton, author of New History of Jazz and jazz critic of The Times in London, provided the set’s liner notes.

The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio: Live at the Blue Note track list:

Disc One:

1. Introductions

2. Honeysuckle Rose

3. Let There Be Love

4. Peace for South Africa

5. Sushi

6. I Remember You/A Child Is Born/Tenderly

7. Sweet Georgia Brown

8. Blues for Big Scotia

Disc Two:

1. Kelly’s Blues

2. Nighttime

3. Medley: Love Ballade/If You Only Knew

4. You Look Good to Me

5. Old Folks

6. Reunion Blues

7. Song to Elitha

Disc Three:

1. Jim

2. Yours Is My Heart Alone

3. Medley: It Never Entered My Mind/Body and Soul

4. Wheatland

5. Medley: Our Waltz/Adagio/Bach’s Blues

6. March Past

7. Blues Etude

Disc Four:

1. Falling in Love With Love

2. Here’s That Rainy Day

3. Medley: Goodbye Old Girl/He Has Gone

4. The Gentle Waltz

5. Billie’s Bounce

6. The More I See You

7. I Wished on the Moon

8. Cool Walk

Originally Published August 25, 2004