Pianist artist/oscar-peterson-mn0000489316">Oscar Peterson had a reunion amongst guitarist artist/herb-ellis-mn0000674310">Herb Ellis too bassist artist/ray-brown-mn0000343940">Ray Brown at a well-publicized get-together at New York's Blue Note inward March 1990. The trio (his regular grouping of the belatedly '50s) was augmented yesteryear artist/peterson-mn0000489316">Peterson's late-'60s drummer artist/bobby-durham-mn0000073257">Bobby Durham for spirited performances. Rather than using their complex arrangements of the past, the pianist too his alumni exactly jammed through the performances too the results are quite rewarding. On the showtime of 4 CDs released yesteryear Telarc, the quartet performs "Honeysuckle Rose," a ballad medley, iii of the pianist's originals too "Sweet Georgia Brown." As this too the other CDs inward the serial show, the magic was withal there.
In March of 1990, Oscar Peterson played a two-week appointment at the Blue Note inward New York amongst a grouping billed every bit the Oscar Peterson Trio, fifty-fifty though it contained 4 players. Peterson was on piano, Ray Brown was on bass, Herb Ellis was on guitar too Bobby Durham was on drums. The billing was no uncertainty intended to capitalize on the fact that Peterson, Brown too Ellis had been 1 of the most pop jazz trios of the 1950s. The iii had rarely played together betwixt 1958 too this 1990 New York gig.
Telarc, a successful classical label exactly breaking into jazz at the time, recorded the concluding iii nights of the engagement. Over the adjacent 2 years, music from each black was released on private CDs: The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note, Sat Night at the Blue Note too Last Call at the Blue Note. Telarc took 1 concluding travel yesteryear inward 1993, amongst Encore at the Blue Note, a option of “other fine moments” from the iii nights. The showtime 2 albums won Grammy trophies. In belatedly 2004, Telarc reissued this textile inward a four-CD set. You volition hold off inward vain for previously unissued tracks or remastering. But yous instruct 4 CDs for the cost of two, a real slick sideslip example (all four-CD sets should live on packaged this way) too novel liner notes yesteryear Alyn Shipton, jazz critic for the Times of London.
On Oscar Peterson, at that spot are 2 broad critical schools of thought. The showtime (probably to a greater extent than widely held) is that Peterson is a virtuoso who deserves to live on mentioned inward the same judgement amongst Art Tatum. The 2d is that Peterson is a virtuoso, too that it is hard to attention real much near this fact. If it is the 2d perspective that holds sway inward this review, it is hopefully non without abide by for the first. Opinions near Peterson’s music are fifty-fifty to a greater extent than subjective than most judgments near art. If his plant for you, too hence yous are going to honey this set, because it contains almost v hours of torrential floods of pure Peterson. You are going to honey tunes similar “Sushi” too “Blues Etude,” which essay out that Peterson, at 65, could play every bit fast every bit whatever pianist who always lived. You are going to marvel at his dominance of phrasing, his harmonic cognition too his embodiment of hence much jazz pianoforte history. You are going to live on dazzled yesteryear the hook-up amongst guitarist Herb Ellis, peculiarly given the 32-year hiatus inward their musical relationship.
But if Peterson does non motion you, too hence yous are probable to observe his fast pieces rather similar musical Formula One machine races, consummate amongst hairpin turns. You volition observe the rewards of the dazzling fours betwixt Peterson too Ellis to a greater extent than athletic than aesthetic. You volition convey reservations near ballads similar “It Never Entered My Mind” too “A Child Is Born,” believing that, for a jazz improviser, these songs should live on occasions for self-revelation, but that inward Peterson’s hands they are elegant, flawless too detached.
This 1990 recording reunites Oscar Peterson's nonpareil 1950s trio of artist-glance/36421/$%7B0%7D">Ray Brown too artist-glance/125257/$%7B0%7D">Herb Ellis, fleshing out the lineup amongst drummer Bobby Durham from the groovy pianist's '60s group. Though all the principals were inward their sixties at the fourth dimension of the recording, their performances are every bit tight too fleet every bit ever, amongst Ellis sounding peculiarly inspired. The ballads "I Remember You," "A Child Is Born," too "Tenderly" demonstrate their mature, melodic empathy, acre "Honeysuckle Rose" too "Sweet Georgia Brown" are the type of barn burners for which Peterson too society were famous.
Track listing
1. Introductions – 1:56
2. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 8:50
3. "Let There Be Love" (Lionel Grant, Ian Rand) – 12:00
4. "Peace for South Africa" (Oscar Peterson) – 10:46
5. "Sushi" (Peterson) – 8:06
6. "I Remember You"/"A Child Is Born"/"Tenderly" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger)/(Thad Jones, Alec Wilder) – 7:17
7. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) – 8:21
8. "Blues for Big Scotia" (Peterson) - 6:08
Personnel
Oscar Peterson – piano
Herb Ellis – guitar
Ray Brown – double bass
Bobby Durham - drums
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