OSCAR PETERSON: LIVE AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW 1961 (MONO) (THE LOST RECORDING)

Performer: Oscar Peterson, piano; Ray Brown, double bass; Ed Thigpen, drums
Author: Oscar Peterson
Number of discs: 2
Label: The Lost Recordings
Support: LP
Genre: Jazz
Year: 2022

At first it was announced that the edition was numbered, but instead it is the second unnumbered edition, as the title has already been published by Lost>Recordings in the past.

At 9pm on February 10, 1961, Norman Granz, one of the greatest impresarios and producers in the history of jazz, took to the stage at the Conncertgebouw in Amsterdam to present one of the most legendary concerts ever held by the Oscar Peterson Trio. Behind the scenes was his protégé, the great artist who had discovered by pure chance one night in 1949, listening to the radio during a taxi ride in Montreal, that Oscar Peterson who would rise to the empyrean of jazz pianists and which that evening he presented to the public with the unequivocal adjective of ineffable. It could be said that Peterson played more than a hundred notes when all the other pianists limited themselves to ten, but we must honestly recognize that his virtuosity never appears excessive, as he is always put at the service of the music. The exceptional fluidity of the first notes of the introduction contributes to creating the atmosphere of a concert destined to become legendary. This is the first ever edition of this fundamental concert.

Oscar Peterson, piano; Ray Brown, double bass; Ed Thigpen, drums

LP 1
Announcement by Norman Granz
Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
Band Call
With Alma
Politics and Poker
 
LP 2
Where Do I Go From Here
I Remember Clifford
It Ain't Necessarily So
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