Supriya Ghosh (Editor)

Oscar Peterson Jam – Montreux '77

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Released
  
1977

Length
  
50:15

Release date
  
1977

Label
  
Universal Music LLC

Recorded
  
July 14, 1977

Artist
  
Oscar Peterson

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genre
  
Jazz

Oscar Peterson Jam – Montreux '77 c3cduniversewsresized250x500music0681036068jpg

Oscar Peterson Jam - Montreux '77 (1977)
  
Oscar Peterson and the Bassists - Montreux '77 (1977)

Similar
  
Oscar Peterson albums, Jazz albums

Oscar Peterson Jam – Montreux '77 is a 1977 live album featuring a jam session led by Oscar Peterson. At the Grammy Awards of 1979, Peterson won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist for his performance on this album.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Ali and Frazier" (Oscar Peterson) – 9:20
  2. "If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser) – 10:39
  3. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 12:42
  4. "Just in Time" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) – 9:49
  5. "Bye Bye Blues" (David Bennett, Chauncey Gray, Frederick Hamm, Bert Lown) – 8:06

Personnel

Recorded July 14, 1977 at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland:

Performance

  • Oscar Peterson - piano
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - tenor saxophone
  • Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet
  • Clark Terry
  • Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - double bass
  • Bobby Durham - drums
  • Production

  • Norman Granz - producer
  • Giuseppe Pino - photography
  • Phil DeLancie - remastering
  • Songs

    1There Is No Greater Love (live at the Montreux Jazz Festival)6:19
    2You Look Good To Me (live at the Montreux Jazz Festival)7:03
    3People (live at the Montreux Jazz Festival)6:32

    References

    Oscar Peterson Jam – Montreux '77 Wikipedia