Canadiana Suite

by The Oscar Peterson Trio

Canadiana Suite cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1964
  • Label: Limelight
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 35:13
  • Community rating: 4.04/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Ray Brown, Ed Thigpen

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Canadiana Suite' is Oscar Peterson's extended musical portrait of Canadian places and landscapes. The trio format gives the suite both formal continuity and improvisational flexibility, making it one of Peterson's most conceptually unified works.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, melodic, acoustic, suite, elegant

Tracklist

  1. Ballad To The East (4:08)
  2. Laurentide Waltz (5:20)
  3. Place St. Henri (3:57)
  4. Hogtown Blues (3:40)
  5. Blues Of The Prairies (4:59)
  6. Wheatland (5:30)
  7. March Past (3:25)
  8. Land Of The Misty Giants (4:11)

Credits

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