Oscar Peterson - Night Train

“It seems incredible to me that anyone as good as Oscar Peterson could still improve,” wrote jazz critic Alun Morgan in his review of this album for the April 1964 edition of the British Gramophone Magazine. And he continued:

“Yet I doubt if there are many better Peterson LPs than Night Train, which was recorded in Los Angeles during December 1962, and where Oscar and his regular trio even manage to say something new on the subject of 'C Jam Blues', 'Moten Swing', etc. This is magnificent piano-playing, as strong as a bank vault, yet supple enough to swing all of the time.”

180-GRAM COLORED BLUE VINYL – THE COMPLETE ALBUM + 2 BONUS TRACKS

Contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer Brian Morton and by Paris' prestigious Jazz Magazine.

LIMITED EDITION

Side A:

1. Night Train – 4:53
2. C Jam Blues – 3:26
3. Georgia on My Mind – 3:47
4. Bags’ Groove – 5:43
5. Moten Swing – 2:55
6. Easy Does It – 2:46
7. Volare – 2:49 *

Side B:

1. The Honeydripper – 2:25
2. Things Ain’t What They Used to Be – 4:39
3. I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good – 5:09
4. Band Call – 3:55
5. Hymn to Freedom – 5:38
6. My Heart Belongs to Daddy – 3:59 *

* Bonus tracks: From the same session but not included on the original LP.

Personnel:

Oscar Peterson – piano

Ray Brown – bass

Ed Thigpen – drums

Recorded at: Radio Recorders, Hollywood, December 16, 1962

Original sessions produced by: Norman Granz