- Exclusively for My Friends (Box Set)
Infobox Album |
Name = Exclusively for My Friends
Type =studio album
Artist =Oscar Peterson
Released = 1992
Recorded = 1963 - 1968
Genre =Jazz
Length = 243:30
Label = Island
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0vfrxqwgldje link]
Last album =
This album = "Exclusively for My Friends"
(1992)
Next album ="Exclusively for My Friends" is a 1992 CD box set by
Canadian jazz pianistOscar Peterson .Originally released on MPS Records, this four-CD, 36-song box set was released by Island Records in 1992. It includes Peterson's albums "Girl Talk", "The Way I Really Play", "My Favorite Instrument", "Mellow Mood" and "Travelin
' On". The set includes performances with his most well-known trio consisting of Ray Brown andEd Thigpen and also teams him with Sam Jones and Louis Hayes or Bobby Durham.MPS has also released an 8 volume CD set from the same time period called "Exclusively for My Friends" as well as
Polygram Records releasing "Exclusively for My Friends: The Lost Tapes" which includes twelve previously un-released tracks.Track listing
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At Long Last Love " (Cole Porter ) – 4:56
#"Easy Walker" (Taylor) – 9:36
#"Tin Tin Deo" (Fuller, Pozo) – 5:34
#"I've Got a Crush on You " (George Gershwin ,Ira Gershwin ) – 5:15
#"A Foggy Day " (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 4:35
#"Like Someone in Love " (Sonny Burke ,Jimmy Van Heusen ) – 11:18
#"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever " (Burton Lane ,Alan Jay Lerner ) – 4:29
#"I'm in the Mood for Love " (Dorothy Fields ,Jimmy McHugh ) – 16:50
#"Girl Talk" (Neal Hefti ,Bobby Troup ) – 5:32
#"Robbins Nest" (Illinois Jacquet ,Charles Thompson ) – 6:16
#"Medley: "I Concentrate on You"/"Moon River " (Porter)/(Henry Mancini ,Johnny Mercer ) – 6:24
#"Medley: "Waltzing Is Hip"/"Satin Doll " (Brown)/(Duke Ellington , Mercer) – 16:02
#"Our Love Is Here to Stay " (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 4:45
#"Sandy's Blues" (Oscar Peterson ) – 9:26
#"Alice in Wonderland" (Sammy Fain , Hilliard) – 4:41
#"Noreen's Nocturne" (Peterson) – 5:15
#"In a Mellow Tone " (Ellington,Milt Gabler ) – 5:58
#"Nica's Dream" (Horace Silver ) – 7:46
#"On Green Dolphin Street " (Bronislaw Kaper ,Ned Washington ) – 6:18
#"Summertime" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin,DuBose Heyward ) – 5:20
#"Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue) " (Irving Caesar ,Vincent Youmans ) – 5:04
#"Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" (Leslie Bricusse ,Antony Newley ) – 6:18
#"Travelin' On" (Traditional) – 2:29
#"Emily" (Johnny Mandel , Mercer) – 10:16
#"Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) " (Antonio Carlos Jobim ,Gene Lees ) – 7:25
#"Sax No End" (Boland) – 5:57
#"When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter , Williams) – 10:53
#"Someone to Watch over Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 4:10
#"Perdido " (Ervin Drake ,Hans Lengsfelder ,Juan Tizol ) – 6:10
#"Body and Soul " (Eyton, Green, Heyman, Sour) – 4:28
#"Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" – 4:53
#"Bye Bye Blackbird " (Mort Dixon ,Ray Henderson ) – 4:50
#"I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn ,Axel Stordahl ,Paul Weston ) – 4:42
#"Lulu's Back in Town" (Al Dubin ,Harry Warren ) – 2:00
#"Little Girl Blue " (Lorenz Hart ,Richard Rodgers ) – 6:02
#"Take the "A" Train " (Billy Strayhorn ) – 2:37Personnel
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Oscar Peterson -piano
*Ray Brown -double bass
*Ed Thigpen - drums
*Sam Jones - double bass
*Louis Hayes - drums
*Bobby Durham - drums
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