The London House Sessions

Infobox Album | Name = The London House Sessions
Type = Live album
Artist = Oscar Peterson

| Released = 1962
Recorded = July 27-August 6, 1961
Genre = Jazz
Length = 316:39
Label = Verve Records
Producer = Norman Granz
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hxfuxq9hldte link] | Last album = "Oscar Peterson Trio with Milt Jackson - Very Tall"
(1962)
This album = " The London House Sessions "
(1962)
Next album =""
(1962)

"The London House Sessions" is a compilation album compiling the music from four live albums by Oscar Peterson recorded at The London House, Chicago in the summer of 1961.

"The London House Sessions" was initially released on four LPs. It was re-released on five CDs in 1996 by Polygram. Music from "The Trio" (1961), "The Sound of the Trio" (1961), "Put on a Happy Face" (1962), and "Something Warm" (1962) is included plus thirty unrelased tracks recorded at the same time.

Track listing

# "I've Never Been in Love Before" (Frank Loesser) – 5:35
# "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 8:07
# "Chicago" (Fred Fisher) – 8:55
# "The Night We Called It a Day" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 4:47
# "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey, Vincent Youmans) – 11:41
# "Whisper Not" (Benny Golson) – 5:46
# "Billy Boy" (Traditional) – 1:46
# "Tricrotism (Tractitism)" (Oscar Pettiford) - 11:08
# "Billy Boy" - 3:05
# "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronislaw Kaper, Ned Washington) - 8:52
# "Thag's Dance" (Oscar Peterson) - 5:40
# "Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 5:33
# "Kadota's Blues" (Peterson) - 11:06
# "Put on a Happy Face" (Charles Adams, Lee Strouse) - 8:31
# "Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) - 4:27
# "Woody 'N You" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 3:58
# "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 3:32
# "Diablo" (Peterson) - 6:59
# "Soon" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 4:51
# "The Lonesome One" (Peterson) - 7:09
# "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) - 5:00
# "I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson) - 9:48
# "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prevert) - 5:04
# "Blues for Big Scotia" (Peterson) - 6:46
# "Swamp Fire" (Harold Mooney) - 3:58
# "I Love You" (Cole Porter) - 6:38
# "It Happened in Monterey" (Billy Rose, Mabel Wayne) - 6:23
# "Billy Boy" - 3:12
# Introduction - 0:50
# "On Green Dolphin Street" - 7:46
# "Moanin'" (Bobby Timmons) - 6:29
# "Billy Boy" - 2:36
# "Scrapple from the Apple" (Charlie Parker) - 9:19
# "Jim" (Caesar Petrillo, Milton Samuels, Nelson Shawn) - 8:55
# "Band Call" (Duke Ellington) - 7:41
# "The Night We Called It a Day" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 5:05
# "The Lonesome One" - 5:26
# "The Gravy Waltz" (Steve Allen, Ray Brown) - 4:45
# "Woody 'N You" - 3:48
# "Soon" - 9:19
# "Daahoud" (Brown) - 5:51
# "As Long as There's Music" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 5:49
# "Close Your Eyes" (Bernice Petkere) - 6:05
# "Cubano Chant" (Ray Bryant) - 9:48
# "Sometimes I'm Happy" - 10:56
# "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) - 10:31
# "Better Luck Next Time" (Irving Berlin) - 7:30
# "Confirmation" (Parker) - 10:13

Personnel

Recorded at The London House, Chicago:
* Oscar Peterson - piano
* Ray Brown - double bass
* Ed Thigpen - drums
* Norman Granz - producer