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#DemandezLeProgramme :
1958 - Ella Fitzgerald Quartet & Oscar Peterson Trio - Bruxelles
- #EllaFitzgerald (voc), #LouLevy (p), Max Bennett (b), Gus Johnson (dr)
- #OscarPeterson (p), #RayBrown (b), #HerbEllis (g)

#jazz

1979 - An evening with Oscar Peterson - Concertgebouw - Amsterdam

#OscarPeterson (p), #HerbEllis (g), #RayBrown (b), #JeffHamilton (dr)

#jazz

When I think, "Who the hell is that? It sounds like Charley Christian, but it can't be?" It's always Barney Kessel.

https://store.ververecords.com/products/oscar-peterson-the-president-plays-lp?srsltid=AfmBOor2URlhLT9V41ppytZbCvsDoi1J0vnRNby-8JzXSneeMBzDCLfi

#Jazz
#Guitar
#OscarPeterson
#LesterYoung
#BarneyKessel

Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie, 1975 on Pablo

Pablo records, with a logo and name inspired by Picasso, was started by Norman Granz (who also produced this record) in the early seventies. There’s a ton of great Pablo jazz records—I generally pick them up whenever I see them.

Recorded in 1974 in London, this release brings together two greats but it is not a “legacy” album – their playing is still super vibrant here. (Gillespie won a Best Jazz Performance Grammy for this recording).

My copy via Antone’s Records in Austin TX

#1970s #1975 #AntoneSRecords #AustinTX #DizzyGillespie #NormanGranz #OscarPeterson #PabloRecords #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

#DemandezLeProgramme :
1952 - Jazz at the Philharmonic - Miami Beach

Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Flip Phillips, Charlie Shavers, Hank Jones, Barney Kessel, Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson

#jazz #EllaFitzgerald #GeneKrupa #BuddyRich #LesterYoung #RoyEldridge #FlipPhillips #CharlieShavers #HankJones #BarneyKessel #RayBrown #OscarPeterson

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Ella & Louis: Complete Studio Small Group Recordings, 2015 on Waxtime

Waxtime is sometimes a controversial label. Based on some differences between US and EU copyright law, they’re releasing classic jazz recordings without explicit access o the source material. This means they might be working from a CD, or even a needle-drop on a good vinyl copy- but the source material is more or less unofficial.

That said, I’m a huge fan of the work Ella and Louis did together. There are two primary releases: 1956’s Ella and Louis, which I have a 1956 pressing of, and 1957’s Ella and Louis Again, which I don’t currently have (but am on the hunt for). The latter is a 2xLP release, which includes some tracks that feature one or the other but not both.

This Waxtime release puts together then first Ella and Louis LP plus the tracks from Ella and Louis Again which feature both of them. (As they put it: “This edition includes all of their duets from these sessions while discarding the songs on which either Ella or Louis sit out”).

Note Ella and Louis are backed here by basically the Oscar Peterson Trio: Peterson, Herb Ellis, and Ray Brown, plus Buddy Rich (sides A&B) or Louie Bellson (sides C&D) on drums. These original sessions were all done in Hollywood and produced by Norman Granz.

For my money this is a great edition, despite unclear / unstated source material. (Direct-metal-mastering straight from a CD?). It’s well pressed, with a low noise floor, and the mastering makes the material sound lively and present. Now maybe on high end audiophile equipment one would notice more difference, but these are studio recordings from the 50s and they sound great. I’ll keep looking for an original (or an audiophile reissue) of Ella and Louis Again but in the meanwhile happy to have these on vinyl.

#1950s #1956 #1957 #2010s #2015 #BuddyRich #EllaFitzgerald #HerbEllis #jazz #LouieBellson #LouisArmstrong #NormanGranz #OscarPeterson #RayBrown #Reissue #Verve #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #Waxtime

#DemandezLeProgramme :
1950s - Oscar Peterson - Columbia Records - Clef Series - Great Britain
#jazz #OscarPeterson #RayBrown #HerbEllis

Milt Jackson - Ain’t But a Few of Us Left

Another Pablo gem with Jackson, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and Grady Tate.

I don’t know whether Brown was playing an electric bass here, but there’s certainly a lot of bass oomph on this particular recording.

#nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #miltjackson #oscarpeterson #raybrown #gradytate #pablorecords

Oscar Peterson & Milt Jackson - Two of the Few

(Yes, I've been filling in some holes in my Milt Jackson LPs with thanks to recordcity.jp…)

1983 Pablo recording of Peterson and Jackson playing mostly standards. As expected, great playing by both, and a great listen.

#nowplaying #vinyl #jazz #pablorecords #oscarpeterson #miltjackson

Oscar Peterson en concert le 14 août 1990 au Festival Jazz In Marciac

#OscarPeterson (p), #HerbEllis (g), #RayBrown (b), #JeffHamilton (dr)

#jazz #podcast #francemusique en 2 parties:
https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/les-legendes-du-jazz/oscar-peterson-en-concert-le-14-aout-1990-au-festival-jazz-in-marciac-1-2-2485658
https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/les-legendes-du-jazz/oscar-peterson-en-concert-le-14-aout-1990-au-festival-jazz-in-marciac-2-2-3125090

#DemandezLeProgramme #jazz :
1959 - Essener Jazz Tage - Grugahalle in Essen (Deutschland / Allemagne / Germany)

#BuckClayton, #BudPowell, #EdThigpen, #EllaFitzgerald, #GusJohnson, #HerbEllis, #KennyClarke, Lou Levy, #LuckyThompson, #OscarPeterson, #OscarPettiford, #RayBrown, #RoyEldridge, #StanGetz, #TheloniousMonk, #MartialSolal, #AlbertMangelsdorff, ...