Oscar Peterson at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival

1956 live album by Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival
Live album by
Oscar Peterson
Released1956
RecordedAugust 8, 1956
GenreJazz
Length75:03
LabelVerve
ProducerNorman Granz
Oscar Peterson chronology
Oscar Peterson Plays Count Basie
(1955) 		Oscar Peterson at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival
(1956) 		Soft Sands
(1956)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[2]

Oscar Peterson at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival is a 1956 live album by Oscar Peterson, accompanied by Ray Brown and Herb Ellis, recorded at the 1956 Stratford Shakespeare Festival in the city of Stratford, Ontario, Canada.[3]

Track listing

  1. "Falling in Love with Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 6:15
  2. "How About You?" (Ralph Freed, Burton Lane) – 5:53
  3. "Flamingo" (Edmund Anderson, Ted Grouya) – 4:59
  4. "Swinging on a Star" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 5:33
  5. "Noreen's Nocturne" (Oscar Peterson) – 5:31
  6. "Gypsy in My Soul" (Clay Boland, Moe Jaffe) – 6:23
  7. "Nuages" (Django Reinhardt) – 5:05
  8. "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) – 9:44
  9. "Love You Madly" (Duke Ellington) – 8:01
  10. "52nd Street Theme" (Thelonious Monk) – 4:13
  11. "Daisy's Dream" (Peterson) – 13:26

Personnel

Performance

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1151. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. ^ Oscar Peterson at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival at AllMusic
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Plays
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1955–58
Plays the
Songbook
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The
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Sessions
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1969–79
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1980–2004
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Ella
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Coleman
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  • The Silent Partner (1978)