Another Day

Oscar Peterson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 2, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Universal Music & VI
• ASIN: B000008BZN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,157,344 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Blues for Martha

2. Greensleeves

3. I'm Old Fashioned

4. All the Things You Are

5. Too Close for Comfort

6. The Jamfs Are Coming

7. It Never Entered My Mind

8. Carolina Shout

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't miss this one - it's one of his best, April 11, 2007

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James A. Vedda (Alexandria, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Another Day (Reis) (Audio CD)

Oscar Peterson's long and prolific career has given jazz collectors a large number of CDs to choose from as we attempt to properly represent his work in our music libraries. Don't let this album get lost in the multitude - in my opinion, it is a must-have. Oscar hit his stride in the 1970s, and this album was recorded at the beginning of that amazingly productive period.
The opening track, "Blues for Martha," is a real attention-getter. It's a great demonstration of some of Oscar's signature techniques. You'll think you're listening to a big band arrangement, complete with brass punch figures, ensemble choruses, and horn sections playing off one another - but it's all Oscar on piano! And his fast-moving lines in parallel octaves make a powerful statement.
Slower pieces in this assortment ("Greensleeves," "All the Things You Are," "It Never Entered My Mind") are great showcases for Oscar's taste, demonstrating that subtlety can mix with blazing technique, the latter always impressive but never overwhelming.
The energy level is kept up with "Too Close for Comfort" (more of that virtual big band sound bracketing his rapid-fire solo). To add some blues to the mix, there's "The Jamfs Are Coming" (listen to the wild "ensemble" playing in the middle of this one!). Oscar finishes the album with the up-tempo "Carolina Shout" which seems to say, "let's end this gig with something fun."
Put this one in your collection, and look for his other great work from the 1970s.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent, February 8, 2008

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Lucian Chavez "jazz jazz!" (united states) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Another Day (Reis) (Audio CD)

The late great Oscar left this great recording for all to listen and to share his great talent.
The recording quality is great and the playing is excellent!
A must have in your Oscar collection.

5.0 out of 5 stars Peterson best recording..., January 31, 2011

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Daniel Svensson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Another Day (Reis) (Audio CD)

I have a collection of about 120 albums (on CD) of Oscars's output.

This album is (arguable, as always) his GREATEST!

Other albums coming close are: "Stratford Shakespearean Festival", "The Jazz Soul of Oscar Peterson", "Night Train", "We Get Requests", "My Favourite Instrument" and "Tristeza on Piano".

To compare a solopiano album with this trio setting is of course un-do-able. The earlier albums have their own masterity (the sound quality is however not as god). So, I would say, "Tristeza on Piano" and "The Jazz Soul of Oscar Peterson" are the only real threats to this "par none" album by Peterson (I must ad though that "My Favourite Instrument" is as god, but as I said earlier, this is a solopiano album).

On "Another Day" Oscar reaches a peak in his mastery of the keyboard. Never (before or after) will we hear the notes beeing executed whith such effortless elegance, the keyboard swing with such flambouyant maturity, the arrangments beeing so wounderfully orchestrated and tightly knit toghether as here (although "The Jazz Soul of Oscar Peterson" is a strong contender).

Ad to that: The best recorded sound of "the trio" ever, made possible by the genious of Hans George Brunner-Schwer.

Everything on this album is superior. I'm intended to say that this is the best mainstream jazzpianotrio album ever made (and ever likley to be made, in eternity). The complexity of the playing, the creativity in every moment, the deep swinging drive, is beyond belief...

If you haven't heard this album before [...] I can assure you that you're in for a real treat!