AT THE STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL

5 STARS DOWN BEAT MAGAZINE
 

This edition presentys the complete celebrated LP of Oscar Peterson’s drum-less trio featuring Herb Ellis and Ray Brown at the Shakespearean Festival in Ontario, Canada. According to Peterson himself, the group was seldom captured so well on records.

Includes 12-page booklet

PERSONNEL:

OSCAR PETERSON piano
RAY BROWN bass
HERB ELLIS guitar

Live at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Ontario,
Canada, August 7 (10-11) & August 8 (1-9), 1956.

Tracks:

01 FALLING IN LOVE WITH LOVE 6:15
02 HOW ABOUT YOU? 5:53
03 FLAMINGO 4:59
04 SWINGING ON A STAR 5:33
05 NOREEN’S NOCTURNE 5:31
06 GYPSY IN MY SOUL 6:22
07 HOW HIGH THE MOON 9:41
08 LOVE YOU MADLY 8:02
09 52nd STREET THEME 4:12
10 NUAGES 5:01
11 DAISY’S DREAM 13:26

Total Time: 74:58

DOWN BEAT original review: At The Stratford Shakespearean Festival
“That the Peterson trio is one of the best musical units in jazz has been accepted in most quarters for some time now. Until the appearance of this album, however, it has not been too easily demonstrated on disc. Here for the first time we have the boiling, bubbling, swinging beat that the group specializes in brought through onto disc. There should be more like this.” Ralph J. Gleason