Something Warm

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Something Warm
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Live album by
Released1967
RecordedJuly 28–29, 1961
Genre Jazz
Label Verve
Producer Norman Granz
The Oscar Peterson Trio chronology
Put On a Happy Face
(1966)
Something Warm
(1967)
The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World
(1967)
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Something Warm is a live album by the Oscar Peterson Trio, recorded at the London House jazz club in Chicago. The sessions were in 1961, but the album was initially released as Verve V/V6-8681 in 1967.

Contents

Three other Oscar Peterson Trio albums were also released featuring music from the London House concerts: The Trio , The Sound of the Trio , and Put On a Happy Face . The complete sessions were released in 1996 as The London House Sessions .


Track listing

Side One

  1. "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes)
  2. "I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson)
  3. "Autumn Leaves" (Jacques Prévert, Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer)

Side Two

  1. "Blues for Big Scotia" (Oscar Peterson)
  2. "Swamp Fire" (Harold Mooney)
  3. "I Love You" (Cole Porter)

Personnel

Chart positions

YearChartPosition
1967Billboard Jazz Albums16

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 161. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.