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Oscar Peterson – Oscar Peterson Plays The George Gershwin Song Book (High Definition Remaster 2023) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:18 minutes | 349 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © J. Joes J. Edizioni Musicali

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson CC CQ OOnt (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007)was a Canadian virtuoso jazz pianist and composer. Considered one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, Peterson released more than 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, as well as a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy, and received numerous other awards and honours. He played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years. He was called the “Maharaja of the keyboard” by Duke Ellington, simply “O.P.” by his friends, and informally in the jazz community as “the King of inside swing”.
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Oscar Peterson – Walking the Line (1970/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:42 minutes | 1,70 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS

Oscar Peterson’s series of recordings for Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer during the 1960s and early ’70s are one of many high points in his long career. With George “Jiri” Mraz on bass and Ray Price on drums, Peterson’s flashy romp through “I Love You” (complete with a humorous detour into the opera “Pagliacci”) and mid-tempo walk through “All of You” salute Cole Porter in style on Walking the Line. “Rock of Ages” isn’t the old hymn but a lively, gospel-inflected Peterson original that will easily get any congregation swinging and swaying to the music. His mastery of the ballad form is heard in his sensitive interpretation of “Once Upon a Summertime,” which showcases Mraz’s gorgeous tone, as Price sits out this one.
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Oscar Peterson – On a Clear Day: The Oscar Peterson Trio – Live in Zurich, 1971 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:45 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

Legendary pianist and composer Oscar Peterson led a storied career, spanning over half a century with new creative heights at every turn. 1971 saw Peterson touring the world once again, joined by bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and drummer Louis Hayes. As heard in this never-before-released live recording from Zurich, Switzerland, the collaboration and artistry between these musicians is unmatched.
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Oscar Peterson – The Best of the MPS Years (Remastered) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:20:21 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS

When the world-renowned Canadian pianist came to Villingen in 1961, there was a mood of intense excitement all round. Hans-Georg Brunner-Schwer (HGBS), former owner of the hifi dynasty SABA who died in 2004, had just set up the first version of his studio, equipped with the most advanced recording technology of the time, above the living-room in his villa. This was the bait used by the piano enthusiast to attract the famous pianist to the Black Forest. After a guest performance in Zurich, Peterson climbed into a limousine and embarked on a journey across the mountains. As soon as he arrived, along with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen, the international star was led to the Steinway grand in the living-room where a number of excited guests were eagerly waiting. “I listened to him play ’til four o’clock in the morning and lost the desire to ever hear the Beatles again!”, says Matthias Brunner-Schwer, HGBS’ son, still starry-eyed half a century later. The legendary pianist himself was equally delighted when he listened to the recording of the nocturnal living-room performance, never before having heard such a direct and pristine piano sound on tape. It sounded to him as if he was still there at the grand piano, undisturbed by distracting nightclub sounds yet surrounded by a wonderfully intimate atmosphere. Peterson’s enthusiastic response marked the beginning of a long-term friendship and spiritual kinship with Brunner-Schwer.
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Oscar Peterson – Oscar Peterson Plays the Richard Rodgers Song Book (1959/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 30:24 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © High Definition Tape Transfers

In the 1950s and early ’60s, producer Norman Granz perfected the songbook approach to album production by having vocalist Ella Fitzgerald interpret large segments of the standard jazz repertoire. In a frankly stated effort to expand the listening audience for this great body of work, Granz also asked Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson to churn out numerous instrumental songbooks albums under his own name with various combos. By the end of the decade, these included Oscar’s newly reconfigured trio with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen. Like its companion albums, Peterson’s Richard Rodgers Song Book was never intended as a set of exercises in soul-searching profundity. Instead what you get are simple, straightforward, well-played appreciations of great American songwriting. Most of the melodies on this album resulted from Rodgers’ extraordinary collaborative relationship with lyricist Lorenz Hart, and a couple of Oscar Hammerstein numbers were thrown in as well. Those who enjoy this pleasant offering may wish to investigate Peterson’s songbook salutes to Duke Ellington, Vincent Youmans, Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, and numerous others.
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Oscar Peterson – Oscar Peterson Plays The Cole Porter Song Book (1959)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 32:59 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Verve Reissues

Cole Porter’s tunes are great enough on their own, but Oscar really opens them up on this set – picking up the inherent rhythms in the numbers and really working them over – in a way that makes the outing one of the most lively in Peterson’s songbook series for Verve! Oscar’s fluid touch on the keys is perfect throughout – taking lots of chances, but always strongly following the melody – and rhythm accompaniment is from the usual team of Ray Brown on bass and Ed Thigpen on drums.

With Ray Brown on bass and Ed Thigpen on drums, Oscar Peterson reworks Cole Porter and says something original and distinctive. Highlights include “Love for Sale,” “Night and Day,” and “I Love Paris.” –AllMusic Review by Ron Wynn
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