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The London House Sessions

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Released
  
1996

Producer
  
Richard Seidel

Artist
  
Oscar Peterson

Label
  
Verve Records

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
316:39

The London House Sessions (1961)
  
West Side Story (1962)

Release date
  
1996

Recorded
  
July 27-August 6, 1961

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Similar
  
Put On a Happy Face, The Sound of the Trio, Something Warm, The Trio, Live at the Blue Note

The London House Sessions is a compilation album compiling the music from four live albums by Oscar Peterson recorded at The London House, Chicago in the Summer of 1961. Music from The Trio, The Sound of the Trio, Put On a Happy Face, and Something Warm is included plus thirteen unreleased tracks recorded at the same time.

Contents

The London House Sessions was initially released on four LPs. It was released on five CDs in 1996 by Polygram.

Track listing

  1. "I've Never Been in Love Before" (Frank Loesser) – 5:35
  2. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 8:07
  3. "Chicago" (Fred Fisher) – 8:55
  4. "The Night We Called It a Day" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 4:47
  5. "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey, Vincent Youmans) – 11:41
  6. "Whisper Not" (Benny Golson) – 5:46
  7. "Billy Boy" (Traditional) – 1:46
  8. "Tricrotism (Tractitism)" (Oscar Pettiford) - 11:08
  9. "Billy Boy" - 3:05
  10. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronislaw Kaper, Ned Washington) - 8:52
  11. "Thag's Dance" (Oscar Peterson) - 5:40
  12. "Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 5:33
  13. "Kadota's Blues" (Peterson) - 11:06
  14. "Put On a Happy Face" (Lee Adams, Charles Strouse) - 8:31
  15. "Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) - 4:27
  16. "Woody 'N' You" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 3:58
  17. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 3:32
  18. "Diablo" (Peterson) - 6:59
  19. "Soon" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 4:51
  20. "The Lonesome One" (Peterson) - 7:09
  21. "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) - 5:00
  22. "I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson) - 9:48
  23. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) - 5:04
  24. "Blues for Big Scotia" (Peterson) - 6:46
  25. "Swamp Fire" (Harold Mooney) - 3:58
  26. "I Love You" (Cole Porter) - 6:38
  27. "It Happened in Monterey" (Billy Rose, Mabel Wayne) - 6:23
  28. "Billy Boy" - 3:12
  29. Introduction - 0:50
  30. "On Green Dolphin Street" - 7:46
  31. "Moanin'" (Bobby Timmons) - 6:29
  32. "Billy Boy" - 2:36
  33. "Scrapple from the Apple" (Charlie Parker) - 9:19
  34. "Jim" (Caesar Petrillo, Milton Samuels, Nelson Shawn) - 8:55
  35. "Band Call" (Duke Ellington) - 7:41
  36. "The Night We Called It a Day" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 5:05
  37. "The Lonesome One" - 5:26
  38. "The Gravy Waltz" (Steve Allen, Ray Brown) - 4:45
  39. "Woody 'N You" - 3:48
  40. "Soon" - 9:19
  41. "Daahoud" (Brown) - 5:51
  42. "As Long as There's Music" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 5:49
  43. "Close Your Eyes" (Bernice Petkere) - 6:05
  44. "Cubano Chant" (Ray Bryant) - 9:48
  45. "Sometimes I'm Happy" - 10:56
  46. "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) - 10:31
  47. "Better Luck Next Time" (Irving Berlin) - 7:30
  48. "Confirmation" (Parker) - 10:13

Personnel

Performance
  • Oscar Peterson - piano
  • Ray Brown - double bass
  • Ed Thigpen - drums
    • Production
  • Richard Seidel - executive producer
  • Michael Lang - supervisor
  • Ben Young - researcher, restorer

    • Songs

    I've Never Been in Love Before5:37
    In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning8:07
    Chicago8:57

    References

    The London House Sessions Wikipedia
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