Howard_S
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Any recommendations for a piano album? Classical or jazz or both if you could. Thanks.
What's a really good Oscar Peterson album?
Two I like a lot are:
A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra
and, West Side Story.
Both of those are with the trio combo of OP, Ray Brown on bass and Ed Thigpen on drums.
Interestingly (at least to me), Oscar Peterson is responsible for the least favorite CD in my entire collection. Its called Side By Bide and is a duet album with OP and his trio coupled with Itzhak Perlman. What seems like it must have been an interesting idea on paper translates horribly musically. The two genre just don't mesh. Bought it sight unseen. Very unlistenable. I keep it in the collection to remind myself how lucky I am that I enjoy all the rest of the CDs I have.