My Favorite Instrument
1968 studio album by Oscar Peterson
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My Favorite Instrument (also released as Soul-O!) is a 1968 album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. It was his first solo piano release.
Released1968
RecordedApril, 1968
StudioHans Georg Brunner-Schwer Studio, Villingen-Schwenningen, West Germany
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| Released | 1968 | |||
| Recorded | April, 1968 | |||
| Studio | Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer Studio, Villingen-Schwenningen, West Germany | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 40:53 | |||
| Label | MPS, Verve (reissue) | |||
| Producer | Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer | |||
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Reception
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| Allmusic |  [1] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [2] |
Writing for AllMusic, critic Scott Yanow wrote "A prelude to his outstanding Pablo recordings, My Favorite Instrument is one of Peterson's top albums of the 1960s."[1] This album was the fourth part of Peterson's Exclusively for My Friends series on MPS.
The Penguin Guide to Jazz included the album in its suggested "Core Collection".[2]
Track listing
- "Someone to Watch over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:18
- "Perdido" (Ervin Drake, Hans Jan Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol) – 6:17
- "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 4:36
- "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 5:02
- "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 4:56
- "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 4:48
- "Lulu's Back In Town" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:10
- "Little Girl Blue" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 6:07
- "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 2:39
Personnel
Performance
- Oscar Peterson – piano
Production
- Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer - music production
- Gene Lees - liner notes
- Hans B. Pfitzer - design
- Sepp Werkmeister - photography