Oscar Peterson: We Get Requests (Acoustic Sounds Vinyl 180g)

Contents

1. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)
2. Days Of Wine And Roses
3. My One And Only Love
4. People
5. Have You Met Miss Jones?
6. You Look Good To Me
7. Girl From Ipanema
8. D & E
9. Time And Again
10. Goodbye J.D.

When Jim Davis began producing records at Verve, he changed the company’s recording philosophy toward its most prolific instrumentalist. Where Norman Granz had produced countless Oscar Peterson albums devoted to the popular song, Davis was more interested in making albums that were closer to what the Peterson trio sounded like live. His first Peterson recordings were the legendary London House Sessions.

At the time of this album, there had been no personnel changes in the trio for five years – so it’s no surprise that the relationship between the musicians here is telepathic. (Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen’s “section” rehearsals, in which they perfected countless rhythmic patterns, were legendary by 1964.) The album, however, has a farewell character – it was Peterson’s last in a fourteen-year collaboration with Verve.

Original recordings produced by Jim Davis. Recorded October 19 and 20, 1964 at RCA Studios, New York City