A LA CARTE #7- The Oscar Peterson Trio – Night Train (Expanded Edition)

 

We are repurposing the music from a Vinyl's Revenge post of January 26, 2016 as a new montage in our ongoing A la Carte series on For Your Listening Pleasure. The following notes are an update.

This classic jazz piano album Night Train was recorded by The Oscar Peterson Trio almost 60 years ago in Los Angeles on December 15 and 16, 1962. It’s a record that belongs in every collection, whether you’re presently a jazz fan or whether you’ve taken a vow against improvised music, thinking it’s incomprehensible and annoying.

The original album contained just 11 songs, and the re-released digital version adds several more. Verve recordings were always known for their quality of music and the outstanding artwork on their covers. Night Train is one of the most famous jazz albums of all time, and deservedly so.

Today’s re-post expands the original offering with a number of bonus tracks, including some alternate takes of the original material, and a few more hitherto unreleased contemporaneous studio recordings.

Tracks:

Happy-Go-Lucky Local (Aka "Night Train")

Written-By – Duke Ellington

C-Jam Blues

Written-By – Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington

Georgia On My Mind

Written-By – Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell

Bags' Groove

Written-By – Milt Jackson

Moten Swing

Written-By – Bennie Moten

Easy Does It

Written-By – Sy Oliver, Trummy Young

Honey Dripper

Written-By – Joe Liggins

Things Ain't What They Used To Be

Written-By – Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons

I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)

Written-By – Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster

Band Call

Written-By – Duke Ellington

Hymn To Freedom

Written-By – Oscar Peterson

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Happy-Go-Lucky Local (Aka "Night Train") [Alternative Take]

Written-By – Duke Ellington

Volare

Written-By – Domenico Modugno, Francesci Migliacci*, Mitchell Parish

My Heart Belongs To Daddy

Written-By – Cole Porter

Moten Swing (Rehearsal Take)

Written-By – Bennie Moten

Now's The Time

Written-By – Charlie Parker

This Could Be The Start Of Something

Written-By – Steve Allen

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Discogs - https://www.discogs.com/The-Oscar-Peterson-Trio-Night-Train/release/2165814 

YouTube Playlist - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5ae6iB5xkhF61vFUWGGD4RGnLgdf1BwR

Internet Archive - https://archive.org/details/alc-07