Oscar Peterson Plays the Richard Rodgers Songbook

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Oscar Peterson Plays the Richard Rodgers Songbook
Studio album by
Released1959
GenreJazz
LabelVerve
ProducerNorman Granz
Oscar Peterson chronology
Oscar Peterson Plays the George Gershwin Songbook
(1959)
Oscar Peterson Plays the Richard Rodgers Songbook
(1959)
Oscar Peterson Plays the Jerome Kern Songbook
(1959)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic
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DownBeat[2]

Oscar Peterson Plays the Richard Rodgers Songbook is a 1959

studio album by pianist Oscar Peterson of compositions written by Richard Rodgers.[3]

Track listing

  1. "This Can't Be Love"
  2. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Oscar Hammerstein II)
  3. "Johnny One Note"
  4. "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" (Hammerstein)
  5. "The Lady Is a Tramp"
  6. "Blue Moon"
  7. "Manhattan"
  8. "Isn't It Romantic?"
  9. "Lover"
  10. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was"
  11. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"
  12. "My Funny Valentine"

All music by Richard Rodgers and all lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Other lyricists indicated.

Personnel

Performance

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ DeMichael, Don (18 February 1960). "Oscar Peterson Trio". DownBeat. Vol. 27, no. 4. p. 36-38.
  3. ^ Allmusic entry for Oscar Peterson Plays the Richard Rodgers Songbook Accessed August 2009.