A Tribute To Oscar Peterson

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Label
BIS
Release Date
March 25, 2014
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PETERSON, OSCAR
    • PERFORMER
      Andrew Litton
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 25, 2014
    • UPC
      7318599920344
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-SACD-2034
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. Lulu's Back In Town

      Composer: Harry Warren

      Performer: Andrew Litton

    2. 'Round Midnight

      Composer: Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams

      Performer: Andrew Litton

    3. Body and Soul

      Composer: Johnny Green

      Performer: Andrew Litton

    4. A Child Is Born

      Composer: Thad Jones

      Performer: Andrew Litton

    5. Jumbo: Little Girl Blue

      Composer: Richard Rodgers

      Performer: Andrew Litton

    6. Take the A Train

      Composer: Billy Strayhorn

      Performer: Andrew Litton

    7. Basin Street Blues

      Composer: Spencer Williams

      Performer: Andrew Litton

    8. Rosalie: How Long Has This Been Going On?

      Composer: George Gershwin

      Performer: Andrew Litton

    9. The Nearness of You

      Composer: Hoagy Carmichael

      Performer: Andrew Litton

    10. Over the Rainbow

      Composer: Harold Arlen

      Performer: Andrew Litton

    11. Things Ain't What They Used to Be

      Composer: Mercer Ellington

      Performer: Andrew Litton

    12. Perdido

      Composer: Juan Tizol

      Performer: Andrew Litton


• On his 16th birthday, Andrew Litton received a solo album of Oscar Peterson playing his own jazz improvisations. Gobsmacked, he began collecting all of Peterson’s recordings. Coming across transcriptions of Peterson’s improvisations, he then began collecting and learning them himself. Now, in tribute to his hero, Mr. Litton has recorded his own performances of some of these transcriptions, including Monk’s ‘Round Midnight, Billy Strayhorn’s Take the ‘A’ Train and Thad Jones’ A Child Is Born.