| My Favorite Instrument | ||||
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| Released | 1968 | |||
| Recorded | April, 1968 | |||
| Studio | Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer Studio, Villingen-Schwenningen, West Germany | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 40:53 | |||
| Label | MPS, Verve (reissue) | |||
| Producer | Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer | |||
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My Favorite Instrument (also released as Soul-O!) is a 1968 album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. It was his first solo piano release.
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |  [1] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [2] |
Writing for AllMusic, critic Scott Yanow wrote "A prelude to his outstanding Pablo recordings, My Favorite Instrument is one of Peterson's top albums of the 1960s." [1] This album was the fourth part of Peterson's Exclusively for My Friends series on MPS.
The Penguin Guide to Jazz included the album in its suggested "Core Collection". [2]
Performance
Production
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