Oscar Peterson Jam – Montreux '77

Oscar Peterson Jam - Montreux '77
Live album by
Oscar Peterson
Released1977
RecordedJuly 14, 1977
GenreJazz
Length50:15
LabelPablo
ProducerNorman Granz
Oscar Peterson chronology
Porgy and Bess
(1976) 		Oscar Peterson Jam - Montreux '77
(1977) 		Oscar Peterson and the Bassists - Montreux '77
(1977)
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Allmusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

Oscar Peterson Jam – Montreux '77 is a 1977 live album featuring a jam session led by Oscar Peterson. At the Grammy Awards of 1979, Peterson won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist for his performance on this album.[4]

Track listing

  1. "Ali and Frazier" (Oscar Peterson) – 9:20
  2. "If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser) – 10:39
  3. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 12:42
  4. "Just in Time" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) – 9:49
  5. "Bye Bye Blues" (David Bennett, Chauncey Gray, Frederick Hamm, Bert Lown) – 8:06

Personnel

Recorded July 14, 1977 at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland:

Performance

Production

  • Norman Granz - producer
  • Giuseppe Pino - photography
  • Phil DeLancie - remastering

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 161. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1155. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ Oscar Peterson Jam - Montreux '77 at AllMusic