Oscar Peterson – At Bakers Keyboard Lounge [CD]

Description

When Oscar Peterson arrived for a two-week engagement at Baker’s Keyboard Lounge in Detroit in early August 1960, the pianist’s year-old trio, featuring bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen, was ascending to new artistic peaks. Intended at the time as a live album for Verve but never released, the music on ‘At Baker’s Keyboard Lounge’ features remarkable, previously unissued performances, all taped on a single Friday night. No matter the tempo, rhythm, or complexity of the arrangement, the three players breathe as one on these recordings, phrasing as if controlled by a single heartbeat. These new-to-the-world recordings, made in Peterson’s prime at the longest continuously operating jazz club in the US, remind you that there will never be anyone else like Oscar Peterson.

Tracklist:

1. Autumn Leaves
2. Django
3. Confirmation
4. Whisper Not
5. Billy Boy
6. The Touch Of Your Lips
7. Ill Wind
8. Chicago
9. I Love You
10. Closing
11. Dancing On The Ceiling
12. Politics ; Poker
13. Where Do I Go From Here?
14. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
15. Liza (All The Clouds Roll Away)
16. Yesterdays
17. Softly As a Morning Sunrise
18. S’Posin
19. I Remember Clifford
20. Let There Be Love
21. Swamp Fire
22. Closing Blues Announcement
23. Satin Doll
24. Woody N You
25. My Funny Valentine
26. Scrapple From The Apple
27. Closing Announcement

UPC: 199957190886
Label: Verve
Release Date: 4.17.26
Format: CD