Released 1968 Artist Oscar Peterson Producer Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer Genre Jazz | Length 42:02 Release date 1968 Label MPS Records | |
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Recorded April, 1968 at Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer Studio, Villingen-Schwenningen, West Germany My Favorite Instrument
(1968) Motions and Emotions
(1969) Similar Oscar Peterson albums, Jazz albums | ||
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My Favorite Instrument (also released as Soul-O!) is a 1968 album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. It was his first solo piano release.
Contents
Reception
Writing for AllMusic, critic Scott Yanow wrote "A prelude to his outstanding Pablo recordings, My Favorite Instrument is one of Peterson's top albums of the 1960s." This album was the fourth part of Peterson's Exclusively for My Friends series on MPS.
Track listing
- "Someone to Watch over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:18
- "Perdido" (Ervin Drake, Hans Jan Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol) – 6:17
- "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 4:36
- "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 5:02
- "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 4:56
- "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 4:48
- "Lulu's Back In Town" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:10
- "Little Girl Blue" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 6:07
- "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 2:39
Performance
Production
Songs
1Someone to Watch Over Me4:18
2Perdido6:17
3Body and Soul4:36
References
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