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Quoted below is a review from March Stereophile of some new OP. Always
nice to have some new OP.
As an aside, there was a time I wasn't too fond of OP. Then my ears
go opened, don't remember when or why or how. I'm sure glad that
happened.
Oscar Peterson: A Time for Love: The Oscar Peterson Quartet-Live in Helsinki, 1987
Peterson, piano; Joe Pass, guitar; Dave Young, bass; Martin Drew, drums
Mack Avenue MAC1151 (2 CDs, available as 3 LPs, download). 2021. Kelly Peterson, prod.; Heikki Hölttä, Pentti Männikkö, engs.
Performance ****½
Sonics ****
Italy's best pianist, Stefano Bollani, says he was given an Oscar Peterson album when he was a teenager. He thought it was by Oscar and Peterson. When he found out it was one piano player, he knew he had to practice more.
Such stories of Peterson's superhuman chops abound. But if you haven't listened to your old Peterson albums in a while, this previously unreleased music will blow your mind all over again. His command of the keyboard was breathtaking and absolute. He embodied the entire history of jazz piano up to Cecil Taylor.
A Time for Love is a complete unedited concert in Helsinki. Peterson was 62 in 1987. If he was past his prime he was still a monster. Joe Pass was beyond a badass, approximately the Oscar Peterson of the guitar. The first CD is all Peterson originals. "Sushi" and "Cakewalk" are insanely, impossibly fast.
Reservations regarding Peterson's achievement are few. But he sometimes overindulged in virtuosity for its own sake, and his genius was interpretation, not composition. The second CD, all tunes by major composers, is best. Johnny Mandel's "A Time for Love" is a rarefied encounter between a great pianist and a great song. The lushness is immersive. Every sweeping flourish, every ringing melodic variant, serves the story. The six-part Ellington medley is epic.
On Joe Pass's solo feature, he arrays a whole night sky of glittering lights containing, like a constellation, one specific song. It is a rush when "When You Wish Upon a Star" is suddenly there.
The recorded sound is surprising. In a crowded concert hall, you can feel all those Finns breathing. Thomas Conrad
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. - Albert Einstein
Follow Ups:
I am excited about this CD / LP release as well.
I haven't watched it yet, but plan to soon.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
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"Trying is the first step towards failure."
Homer Simpson
I have not seen it but am aware of it.
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. - Albert Einstein
Do you have any interest in seeing it?
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