What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XI)

Oscar Peterson Trio: Bursting Out  1962 release. Mono

Now this is more my kind of jazz. High energy and  *bursting out*.

Hard to go wrong with this line up.

• Oscar Peterson - piano
• Ray Brown - double bass
• Ed Thigpen - drums
• Nat Adderley - cornet
• Roy Eldridge - trumpet
• Jimmy Nottingham
• Ernie Royal
• Snooky Young
• Clark Terry - trumpet, flugelhorn
• Jimmy Cleveland - trombone
• Cannonball Adderley - alto saxophone
• Norris Turney
• James Moody - tenor saxophone

Oscar Peterson & Nelson Riddle 1963 release.

Riddle's orchestration certainly dates this album. ( Sinatra-ish 60's smokey bachelor pad sophistication )

But it adds more personality to otherwise bland Peterson's style.

Oscar Peterson Trio: Night Train 1963 release

Another rare upbeat and groovy Peterson album packed with many familiar standards perfect for lounge lizards passed midnight.

One of the greatest venues for a rock concert. Wonderful memories.

Trax off his up and coming album with vocals and horns. Ronnies parents both died last year but he was always troubled by his relationship with his Father which thankfully they sorted before his Father died. Both of his parents by the way were Holacaust survivors

great start of the Sunday...

My fave D 959

Cheers

EJ

Didn't know this one and even not the player - did he produce more great records....

These two form a nice musical pair...

He's been around for a while, recording first for Philips and later for EMI, and until recently quite active on the concert podia. He underwent quite the transformation from a transparent, neutral player in the 60s and 70s to a fiery, angular, extroverted one in the 90s. All his recordings for EMI are worth getting, although sound quality varies. His Beethoven resembles Annie Fischer's in approach and is an absolute peak of the recorded '32'. I've seen him only twice in person: around 10 years ago in a stunning Beethoven recital in Paris, and later doing Mozart in Rotterdam. Things have quieted on the recording front but his last Diabelli recording on Onyx is an appropriate swansong, given that he started his career with the Diabelli, too.

EJ

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Beautifully played and well recorded pieces.

I'm really enjoying my trip through Free's back catalogue.

Thanks for the background - I will check him out....

Switching to a jazz album with nice dynamics...

Even better than I thought....

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(1994)

Always interesting to hear the contrast in playing styles.

Almost like the old times. The first LP my father would play on the Grundig every Sunday morning was a Brahms, usually on of the four symphonies.

Before the guests arrive 

Originally Posted by Florestan:

Franz Schubert: András Schiff (playing on his Franz Bormann, Vienna, c. 1820 Fortepiano)

 

Ungarische Melodie in B minor, D 817

Piano Sonata in G major, D 894

Moments musicaux, D 780

Allegretto in C minor, D 915

Impromptus, D 935

Piano Sonata in B flat major, D 960

 

Doug,

 

How does Staier's pianoforte sounds to you?

 

He plays 

1996 Christopher Clarke Fortepiano  copy of 1827 instrument by the Viennese maker Graf 

 

This is one of the nicest sounding pianoforte I have heard and love his Impromptus, too. 

Then we have Leiws with a modern Steinway with a plenty of ambient air and frequency reach but his macho Schubert sounds wrong to me.

 

Kuma,

I don't have this Staier recording (yet) but I do have others and I would agree.  Not bad sounding at all but still an acquired taste.

I am looking forward to this Andreas Staier recording though....