Blues Etude

by Oscar Peterson

Blues Etude cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1966
  • Label: Limelight
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 42:02
  • Community rating: 4.03/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Demonstrating unparalleled technical virtuosity, 'Blues Etude' finds Oscar Peterson exploring deep blues forms through a rigorous bebop and hard bop lens. The incredibly fluid, high-velocity acoustic piano improvisations firmly establish the trio's immense swinging power.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, improvisation, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Blues Etude (5:18)
  2. Shelley's World (5:16)
  3. Let's Fall In Love (3:46)
  4. The Shadow Of Your Smile Love Theme From The ''Sandpiper'' (5:00)
  5. If I Were A Bell (5:03)
  6. Stella By Starlight (4:38)
  7. Bossa Beguine (3:53)
  8. L'Impossible (5:20)
  9. I Know You So Well (3:48)

Credits

  • Oscar Peterson - primary artist, piano, written-by
  • Ray Brown - bass, written-by
  • Sam Jones - bass
  • Louis Hayes - drums
  • George Roth - illustration
  • Bill Traut - written-by
  • Harold Arlen - written-by
  • Ted Koehler - written-by
  • Richard S. Sherman - producer

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