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Night Train [Extra tracks] [Original recording reissued] [Original recording remastered]

~ Oscar Peterson
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Product details

  • Audio CD (7 April 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Universal Classics
  • ASIN: B0000047D4
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,328 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

    Popular in these categories:

    #3 in  Music > Jazz > Bebop > Piano
    #38 in  Music > Jazz > Mainstream
    #43 in  Music > Jazz > Instruments > Piano

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Night TrainThe Oscar Peterson Trio 4:52£0.69
Listen  2. C-Jam BluesOscar Peterson 3:26£0.69
Listen  3. Georgia On My MindOscar Peterson 3:46£0.69
Listen  4. Bag's GrooveOscar Peterson 5:43£0.69
Listen  5. Moten SwingThe Oscar Peterson Trio 2:55£0.69
Listen  6. Easy Does ItThe Oscar Peterson Trio 2:45£0.69
Listen  7. Honey DripperOscar Peterson 2:24£0.69
Listen  8. Things Ain't What They Used To BeThe Oscar Peterson Trio 4:38£0.69
Listen  9. I Got It Bad And That Ain't GoodThe Oscar Peterson Trio 5:08£0.69
Listen10. Band CallThe Oscar Peterson Trio 3:55£0.69
Listen11. Hymn To FreedomThe Oscar Peterson Trio 5:38£0.69
Listen12. Night TrainOscar Peterson 5:00£0.79
Listen13. VolareOscar Peterson 2:49£0.69
Listen14. My Heart Belongs To DaddyOscar Peterson 3:57£0.69
Listen15. Moten SwingOscar Peterson 3:36£0.79
Listen16. Now's The TimeThe Oscar Peterson Trio 2:36£0.69
Listen17. This Could Be The Start Of SomethingOscar Peterson 5:11£0.69


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Amazon.co.uk Review
This 1962 recording represents Oscar Peterson at his most commercially accommodating, yet his trio with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen never fails to swing. The program includes such familiar melodies as the title track (which began life as Duke Ellington's "Happy Go Lucky Local"), "Georgia on My Mind", and "The Honey Dripper". With the notable exception of the gospel-like original "Hymn to Freedom", most of the tracks clock in at around three minutes. This reissue contains several alternate takes that were wisely left off the original LP, including such unlikely jazz vehicles as "Volare" and "My Heart Belongs to Daddy". --Rick Mitchell

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Master jazz pianist Oscar Peterson had his longest-running trio with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen, and NIGHT TRAIN may be their finest moment. The repertoire here is comprised mostly of standards, although the choices seem deliberate. In treatments of jazz chestnuts like "C-Jam Blues" and "Georgia On My Mind", the trio works inside these well-known songs, painting over familiar colours and re-working traditional melodies, while staying true to the spirit of each tune. The chemistry between Thigpen, Brown, and Peterson is unassailable. Peterson, in particular, is at the top of his game here, running the whole history of jazz through his dexterous, nimble fingers with an in-the-pocket ease not alwaysapparent on his earlier recordings.
NIGHT TRAIN was produced by Norman Granz, who had already sold Verve Records to MGM, but continued to record his favourite artists, of whom Peterson was one. The production is superb, and translates especially well via remastering. The Verve re-issue features additional tracks, including alternate takes, rehearsals, full versions of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" and "Volare", andan incomplete take of Charlie Parker's "Now's the Time". New packaging, expanded liner notes, and photographs make the 1997 CD version of NIGHT TRAIN a keeper.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the Best, 19 Feb 2004
By Gontroppo "Music and Theology Lover" (Bathurst, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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Unlike many jazz piano lovers, I have never thought Oscar Peterson was showing off or playing too many notes, though I also love Count Basie, whose sparse playing goes in the opposite direction.

This album is wonderfully appealing and, could be a great place to start with Oscar if you aren't yet acquainted with his music.

I love every track [but only have the original CD], and appreciate the variety on the recording, from C Jam Blues with its distinctive percussion and piano and double bass solos, to slow ballads like Hymn To Freedom and Things Ain't What They Used To Be through rollicking songs like Night Train and Moten Swing.
Another terrific album is Tracks, which is one of few solo recordings.

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Jazz piano to die for, 2 Jun 2001
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This is an impeccably constructed selection of favourites, performed with the delicacy of touch and inherent melodic sense that Peterson displays in his finest moments.

Is it possible to derive greater enjoyment from jazz than this? I ask myself this question every time I listen to this album. It's built like the great pop albums: at the end of each song, you immediately anticipate the start of the next, and experience gleeful pleasure when you hear that piano again.

The trio -one of the most celebrated piano trios in the history of the music- is tight, swinging, exquisitely balanced. Peterson's most personal moment on the album is perhaps the final "Hymn to Freedom". It is such a moving piece I'm often driven to playing it for its own sake, but nothing gives it greater emotional power than the music that precedes it. It's as if the whole album were recorded just to provide a context for "Hymn" to stand out in this way. A jubilant record is closed a with a pensive poem.

The record is dedicated to Peterson's father, a sleeping-car attendant on Canadian Pacific Railways.

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Considered by many to be Oscar Peterson's finest work., 14 May 2003
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Straight to the point; beg, borrow or steal this album or you a poorer person -- I live for tracks like 'Things Ain't What It Used To Be' and 'C-Jam Blues' and so should you. I guarantee you won't be disappointed with this, especially if you are a fan of Duke Ellington. There are quite a few tracks on this album written by him, but what is amazing is how OP has arranged them for his trio but still managed to keep the intensity of a big band.
The last track, 'Hymn To Freedom', is one of the most beautiful jazz pieces I have ever heard and, being about the racial depression in the 60s, it is certainly an emotional one. One of the previous reviews says that it is worth it just for the bonus tracks -- if it were the bonus tracks AND 'Hymn To Freedom', I would absolutely agree. In fact, listening to the bonus tracks, I could not see why some of them weren't the final takes.
If you don't already have this album, you have no excuse! Buy it, you are missing out.
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