OSCAR PETERSON — Bursting Out With the All Star Big Band! (review)

OSCAR PETERSON — Bursting Out With the All Star Big Band! album cover Album · 1962 · Bop Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
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Here is a nice Oscar Peterson Trio Album, Augmented by the "All Star Big Band", Oscars technical abilities are astounding, it would be hard to find a better Pianist in jazz history for pure technical ability, maybe not as creative or as original a Monk or Bud Powell, Peterson's bread and butter influence has got to be Art Tatum, who many an old timer will tell you was the greatest pianist of them all, This big band recording is fantastic, with arrangements by the great Ernie Wilkins, there is plenty of the standard piano trio groovin' but the big band comes in to punctuate the trio, many standards are featured, Dizzy Gillespie's "Manteca" gets a brisk no non sense reading, Clifford Brown's "Daahoud" as well, Cannonball Adderley and James Moody get a few tasty solos into the mix, and by the way, this Vinyl copy has some very nice production as well, very nice sound stage, and very little distortion on the horn bursts, crisp bass, and Oscar's Piano is up front in the mix, a very nice, and rare big band recording from Oscar Peterson.

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