Oscar Peterson – At Bakers Keyboard Lounge (LP Vinyl)
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Recorded the same year Peterson appeared at the historic Playland-at-the-Beach concert and continued his relentless touring schedule, this Baker's session captures a trio at the height of its chemistry, in a room that had already become hallowed ground for jazz. Baker's Keyboard Lounge, open since 1934, drew the greatest players in the music, and Peterson's two-week stand there was the kind of residency where magic accumulated night after night.
Vinyl LP pressing. When Oscar Peterson arrived for a two-week engagement at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit in early August 1960, the pianist's year-old trio, featuring bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen, was ascending to new artistic peaks. Intended at the time as a live album for Verve but never released, the music on 'At Baker's Keyboard Lounge' features remarkable, previously unissued performances, all taped on a single Friday night. No matter the tempo, rhythm, or complexity of the arrangement, the three players breathe as one on these recordings, phrasing as if controlled by a single heartbeat. These new-to-the-world recordings, made in Peterson's prime at the longest continuously operating jazz club in the US, remind you that there will never be anyone else like Oscar Peterson.
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UPC: 199957190893
Label: Verve
Release Date: 4.17.26
Format: LP Vinyl