With Respect to Nat

Infobox Album | Name = With Respect to Nat
Type = Album
Artist = Oscar Peterson


Released = 1965
Recorded = October 28 - November 13, 1965
Genre = Jazz
Length = 33:10
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Jack Tracy
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:snx1z81a8yv4 link]

Last album = "Eloquence"
(1964)
This album = "With Respect to Nat"
(1965)
Next album = "Blues Etude"
(1965)

"With Respect to Nat" is a 1965 (see 1965 in music) album featuring the Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson.

"Nat" refers to singer Nat King Cole. The album features Peterson singing on all but one of the tracks.

After this album, Peterson spoke with regret of his decision to give up singing.

Track listing

#"When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" (Gene Austin, Jimmy McHugh, Irving Mills) – 2:18
#"It's Only a Paper Moon" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, Billy Rose) – 2:29
#"Walkin' My Baby Back Home" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:31
#"Sweet Lorraine" (Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish) – 3:31
#"Unforgettable" (Irving Gordon) – 2:37
#"Little Girl" (Francis Henry, Matt Hyde) – 2:35
#"Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) – 2:56
#"Orange Coloured Sky" (Milton DeLugg, William Stein) – 2:12
#"Straighten Up and Fly Right" (Nat King Cole, Irving Mills) – 2:25
#"Calypso Blues" (Clifford Carmen, Cole, Don George) – 3:34
#"(What Can I Say) After I Say I'm Sorry?" (Walter Donaldson, Abe Lyman) – 2:39
#"Easy Listening Blues" (Nadine Robinson) – 3:23

Personnel

*Oscar Peterson - piano, vocals
*Hank Jones - piano
*Ray Brown - double bass
*Richard Davis
*Herb Ellis - guitar
*Barry Galbraith
*Mel Lewis - drums
*Wayne Andre - trombone
*Jimmy Cleveland
*J. J. Johnson
*Tony Studd - bass trombone
*Seldon Powell - alto flute, tenor flute
*Jerome Richardson - bass flute, tenor flute
*John Frosk - trumpet
*Joe Newman
*Ernie Royal - trumpet, flugelhorn
*Danny Stiles
*Phil Woods - alto saxophone
*Manny Albam - Arranger, Conductor