A Tribute to My Friends

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A Tribute to My Friends
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Studio album by
Released1983 (1983)
RecordedNovember 8, 1983
Genre Jazz
Length45:31
Label Pablo
Producer Norman Granz
Oscar Peterson chronology
Two of the Few
(1982)
A Tribute to My Friends
(1983)
If You Could See Me Now
(1983)
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A Tribute to My Friends is a 1983 album by Oscar Peterson. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Blueberry Hill" (Vincent Rose, Al Lewis, Larry Stock) – 4:41
  2. "Sometimes I'm Happy (Sometimes I'm Blue)" (Clifford Grey, Leo Robin, Vincent Youmans) – 6:28
  3. "Stuffy" (Coleman Hawkins) – 5:53
  4. "Birk's Works" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 2:37
  5. "Cotton Tail" (Duke Ellington) – 3:12
  6. "Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Roger ("Ram") Ramirez, James Sherman) – 5:22
  7. "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (Van Alexander, Ella Fitzgerald) – 4:26
  8. "Rockin' Chair" (Hoagy Carmichael) – 5:32
  9. "Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker) – 7:20

Personnel

Performance

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References

  1. A Tribute to My Friends at AllMusic
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1156. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. A Tribute to My Friends at AllMusic