Mellow Mood

Mellow Mood
Studio album by
Oscar Peterson
Released1969
RecordedApril 1968
StudioHans Georg Brunner-Schwer Studio, Villingen, West Germany
GenreJazz
Length37:38
LabelMPS
ProducerHans Georg Brunner-Schwer
Oscar Peterson chronology
Travelin' On
(1968) 		Mellow Mood
(1969) 		Motions and Emotions
(1969)

Mellow Mood is an album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio. The session was recorded in Germany at the private studio of Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer and released on the German MPS label.[1] This album was the fifth part of Peterson's Exclusively for My Friends series on MPS. The series was reissued as a box set in 1992 by MPS (and later expanded with The Lost Tapes). A remastered SACD was issued in 2003 on Verve Records.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

Writing for AllMusic, critic Ken Dryden wrote "The fifth volume of Oscar Peterson's Exclusively for My Friends series is another lively trio affair with Sam Jones and Bobby Durham, though the album title Mellow Mood is a bit deceptive."[2]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz includes the album in its selected "Core Collection".[4]

Track listing

  1. "In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) – 6:07
  2. "Nica's Dream" (Horace Silver) – 7:56
  3. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronislau Kaper, Ned Washington) – 6:27
  4. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 5:30
  5. "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) – 5:12
  6. "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 6:26

Personnel

References

  1. ^ MPS was distributed in the UK by Polydor. In the U.S. the album was issued by Pausa Records the same year.
  2. ^ a b Dryden, Ken. "Mellow Mood > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 161. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 1153. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.