Oscar and Benny

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Oscar and Benny
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Studio album by
Oscar Peterson and Benny Green
ReleasedApril 28, 1998
RecordedSeptember 10–11, 1997
Genre Jazz
Length68:11
Label Telarc
Producer Robert Woods, Elaine Martone
Oscar Peterson chronology
A Tribute to Oscar Peterson - Live at the Town Hall
(1997)		Oscar and Benny
(1998)		 Summer Night in Munich
(1999)
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Oscar and Benny is a 1998 album by Oscar Peterson and Benny Green. Peterson and Green are accompanied by Ray Brown on double bass, and the drummer Gregory Hutchinson.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) – 5:38
  2. "When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter, Spencer Williams) – 6:50
  3. "Yours Is My Heart Alone" (Ludwig Herzer  [ de ], Franz Lehár, Beda Fritz Loehner) – 5:14
  4. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 6:36
  5. "The More I See You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 5:39
  6. "Limehouse Blues" (Philip Braham, Douglas Furber) – 4:18
  7. "Easy Does It" (Sy Oliver, Trummy Young) – 7:31
  8. "Someday My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill, Larry Morey) – 5:31
  9. "Scrapple from the Apple" (Charlie Parker) – 5:45
  10. "Jitterbug Waltz" (Richard Maltby, Jr., Fats Waller) – 6:51
  11. "Barbara's Blues" (Oscar Peterson) – 8:18

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r347385
  2. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1157. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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