The Trio (Oscar Peterson album)

1961 live album by Oscar Peterson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Trio (alternatively titled The Trio: Live From Chicago) is a 1961 live album by the Oscar Peterson Trio, recorded at the London House jazz club in Chicago, during a period in which the pianist "was generally in peak form."[1]

Released1961
RecordedJuly 28–29, 1961
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The Trio
Live album by
Released1961
RecordedJuly 28–29, 1961
VenueThe London House, Chicago
GenreJazz
Length76:03
LabelVerve
ProducerNorman Granz
Oscar Peterson chronology
Fiorello!
(1960)
The Trio
(1961)
The Sound of the Trio
(1962)
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Three other Oscar Peterson Trio albums were also released featuring music from the London House concerts: The Sound of the Trio, Something Warm and Put On a Happy Face. The complete sessions were released in 1996 as The London House Sessions.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "I've Never Been in Love Before" (Frank Loesser) – 5:35
  2. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 8:07
  3. "Chicago" (Fred Fisher) – 8:55

Side two

  1. "The Night We Called It a Day" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 4:47
  2. "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey, Vincent Youmans) – 11:41
  3. "Whisper Not" (Benny Golson) – 5:46
  4. "Billy Boy" (Traditional) – 1:46

1997 CD reissue bonus tracks

  1. "The Lonesome One" (Oscar Peterson) – 5:32
  2. "The Gravy Waltz" (Steve Allen, Ray Brown) – 4:54
  3. "Woody 'n' You" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:48
  4. "Soon" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 9:20
  5. "Daahoud" (Clifford Brown) – 5:52

Recorded July 28 (#1–3, 7) and July 29 (#4–6, 8–12), 1961 at the London House, Chicago.[4]

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