Oscar Peterson

• 2 LPs ON 1 CD

• FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON CD !!

This edition presents, for the first time ever on CD, the complete original 1959 album Oscar Peterson Plays the Irving Berlin Songbook (Verve MG VS62053), featuring the Oscar Peterson trio with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen.

For this extended edition, have been added all of the Berlin compositions recorded by the Peterson trio with Brown and Barney Kessel on guitar. Taped during 1952, these recordings marks Peterson’s first attempt at a Berlin Song Book, and were first issued on the LP Oscar Peterson plays Irving Berlin (Clef MGC 604) which appears here in its entirety.

PERSONNEL:

• ON TRACKS [1-12]
• Oscar Peterson - (piano)
• Ray Brown - (bass)
• Ed Thigpen (drums)

Chicago, July 21 & August 1, 1959.

• ON TRACKS [13-23] Bonus Tracks :
• Same personnel except
• Barney Kessel - (guitar, replaces Thigpen)
• Los Angeles, early December 1952.

TRACKS:

• 01. I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
• 02. Supper Time
• 03. I’m Putting All My Eggs In One Basket
• 04. Change Partners
• 05. The Song Is Ended
• 06. How Deep Is The Ocean
• 07. Cheek To Cheek
• 08. I Used To Be Color Blind
• 09. You’re Laughing At Me
• 10. Isn’t This A Lovely Day
• 11. Top Hat, White Tie And Tails
• 12. Remember
• 13. I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
• 14. Isn’t This A Lovely Day
• 15. Cheek To Cheek
• 16. Blue Skies
• 17. Always
• 18. Easter Parade
• 19. Alexander’s Ragtime Band