Oscar Peterson - Exclusively For My Friends [2014] (6 x CD's)

 

OSCAR PETERSON

Oscar Peterson - Exclusively For My Friends [2014] (6 x CD's)

Exclusively for My Friends is a series of six albums for the MPS label by Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. The album tracks were recorded live by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer for MPS on the occasion of private concerts with a small audience in his home studio. The albums have been collected in different box sets over the years.

Recording took place in six separate sessions between 1963 and 1968 in different trio settings as well as with Peterson playing solo. The recordings include performances with his most well-known trio consisting of double bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen and also teams him with bassist Sam Jones and drummers Louis Hayes or Bobby Durham. While around 60 tracks were recorded, only 37 were initially released in five trio albums and one solo album, the first in Peterson's career. The titles on each album were often selected from different recording sessions. Peterson was personally involved in selecting and editing the tapes. Due to contractual reasons, the albums were not released before 1968.   In 1992, the series was re-released as a four CD box set by MPS (and by Verve in the US) which included all recordings of the six original albums. In 1995, the release of the compilation Exclusively for My Friends: The Lost Tapes added twelve previously unreleased tracks to the collection. The constituent albums were also available as individual CD's.  MPS released remastered versions of the original albums as a six LP box set in 2014. One year later, an eight CD box set followed that collected the six albums plus two volumes of Lost Tapes, adding another ten tracks to the overall release group which were personally selected by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer for release shortly before his death in 2004. (Wikipedia)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Oscar Peterson At Long Last Love 5:01

02 Oscar Peterson Easy Walker 9:45

03 Oscar Peterson Tin Tin Deo 5:39

04 Oscar Peterson I've Got a Crush on You 5:19

05 Oscar Peterson A Foggy Day 4:36

06 Oscar Peterson Like Someone in Love 11:17

CD2

01 Oscar Peterson On A Clear Day You Can See Forever 4:24

02 Oscar Peterson I'm In The Mood For Love 17:07

03 Oscar Peterson Girl Talk 5:39

04 Oscar Peterson I Concentrate On You / Moon River 6:29

05 Oscar Peterson Robbin's Nest 6:18

CD3

01 Oscar Peterson Waltzing Is Hip 6:06

02 Oscar Peterson Satin Doll 10:00

03 Oscar Peterson Love Is Here To Say 4:50

04 Oscar Peterson Sandy's Blues 9:30

05 Oscar Peterson Alice In Wonderland 4:45

06 Oscar Peterson Noreen's Nocturne 5:19

CD4

01 Oscar Peterson Someone To Watch Over Me 4:19

02 Oscar Peterson Perdido 6:18

03 Oscar Peterson Body And Soul 4:36

04 Oscar Peterson Who Can I Turn To? 5:02

05 Oscar Peterson Bye, Bye Blackbird 4:57

06 Oscar Peterson I Should Care 4:49

07 Oscar Peterson Lulu's Back In Town 2:11

08 Oscar Peterson Little Girl Blue 6:09

09 Oscar Peterson Take The 'A' Train 2:38

CD5

1 Oscar Peterson In A Mellotone 5:57

2 Oscar Peterson Nica's Dream 7:54

3 Oscar Peterson Green Dolphin Street 6:25

4 Oscar Peterson Summertime 5:22

5 Oscar Peterson Sometimes I'm Happy 5:10

6 Oscar Peterson Who Can I Turn To 6:27

CD6

01 Oscar Peterson Travelin On 2:34

02 Oscar Peterson Emily 10:26

03 Oscar Peterson Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars 7:32

04 Oscar Peterson Sax No End 6:05

05 Oscar Peterson When Lights are Low 7:32

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