Oscar Peterson - The Song Is You:Best Of The Verve Songbooks '1996

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Album name	The Song Is You:Best Of The Verve Songbooks
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Date	1996
Genre	Jazz
Play time	57:41
Format / Bitrate	Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	480 MB(+3\%)
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CD1:

1	Cheek To Cheek	
2	I Aint Necessarily So	
3	Just A-Sittin And A-Rockin	
4	What Is This Thing Called Love?	
5	Prelude To A Kiss	
6	Fascinating Rhythm	
7	Easter Parade	
8	Night And Day	
9	Long Ago And Far Away	
10	Tea For Two	
11	The Song Is You	
12	Without A Song	
13	I Want To Be Happy	
14	The Lady Is A Tramp	
15	Blue Moon	
16	Lover

CD2:
 
1	I Only Have Eyes For You	
2	I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues	
3	You Must \have Been A Beautiful Baby	
4	Come Rain Or Come Shine	
5	I Cant Give You Anything But Love	
6	Im In The Mood For Love	
7	John Hardys Wife	
8	I Got It Bad (And That Aint Good)	
9	That Old Black Magic	
10	A Foggy Day	
11	I Couldnt Sleep A Wink Last Night	
12	Blue Moon	
13	Serenade In Blue	
14	Love For Sale	
15	The Song Is Ended	
16	Yesterdays

Pianist Oscar Peterson has made a remarkable number of records through the years
and his two songbook series for Verve (each recording features the songs of a
different composer) were extensive, to say the least. During 1952-54 he cut ten
albums (113 songs) and in 1959 he added nine more records (108 songs), in
addition to his regular busy activities. Because these were essentially
easy-listening sets with concise interpretations that always kept the melodies
of the composers close by, they are not considered Petersons greatest work but
they are enjoyable in their own right. This particular two-CD set has some of
the highlights from these marathon projects, most of which (the Gershwin
songbooks excepted) had never been out on CD before. Peterson teams up with
guitarist Barney Kessel and bassist Ray Brown on nine numbers from 1952,
features Herb Ellis in Kessels place on 13 other songs and concludes with ten
selections from his 1959 trio with Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen. In all, 32 of
the 221 selections are on this two-fer and, although one hopes that these
projects will be completely reissued someday (which would be a mammoth
undertaking), this melodic set is quite pleasing.~Scott Yanow

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