| Various Artists / Oscar, With Love |
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| Album: | Oscar, With Love | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Jul 2016 | |
| Label: | Two Lions Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2016-07-19 | Pull Date: | 2016-09-18 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Sep 4 | Aug 28 | Aug 21 | Aug 14 | Aug 7 | Jul 31 | Jul 24 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 26, 2018: | Clean Copper Radio & Hot Topics Dream Of Me | 4. | Aug 27, 2016: | Music Casserole Summertime, The Contessa | |
| 2. | Sep 20, 2016: | Clean Copper Radio The Smudge | 5. | Aug 23, 2016: | Clean Copper Radio Emmanuel | |
| 3. | Sep 02, 2016: | Rebop Summertime | 6. | Aug 16, 2016: | Clean Copper Radio Dear Oscar |
| Album Review |
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| Tom McCarter Reviewed 2016-08-05 | ||
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Tom McCarter (multiple artists) Oscar, with Love Two Lions An ambitious project featuring many veteran and upcoming pianists playing solo renditions of Oscar Peterson compositions and arrangements as well as compositions dedicated to Oscar. All tracks are played on Oscar’s personal piano, and each note is gorgeous! Occasional tracks have bass accompaniment. Genre: jazz If You Like: Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, John Hicks, Brad Mehldau FCCs: none Favorite Tracks: Blues for Smedley (disc 1), On Danish Shore (disc 1), If Only You Knew (disc 2), One for Oscar (disc 3), The Smudge (disc 3) Track Review: DISC 1 1. The Contessa – slow ballad 2. Blues for Smedley – New Orleans feel 3. Celine’s Waltz – improve on waltz 4. Bossa Beguine - uptempo swing with bossa notes 5. Cool Walk – uptempo swing 6. Dream of Me – pretty improve 7. Sushi – uptempo swing 8. If I Love Again – slow ballad 9. On a Danish Shore - slow ballad with fast flourishes 10. Ballad for Benny Carter – slow ballad with gorgeous fills 11. A Little Jazz Exercise – uptempo bop, fingers flying 12. Tranquille – slow ballad 13. Take me home – slow ballad DISC 2 (the track listing misses listing a track #3) 1. Announcement – slow ballad 2. If you Only Knew – slow ballad with flourishes 3. (no track) 4. Love Ballade – slow start to upbeat tempo 5. The Gentle Waltz – beautiful slow waltz 6. Summertime – starts slow and builds quickly to midtempo 7. Laurentide Waltz – beautiful slow waltz 8. Mornin’ – beautiful slow ballad 9. Harcourt Nights – beautiful slow ballad 10. Wheatland – mi8dtempo ballad 11. Why Think About Tomorrow? – (this track doesn’t appear on the CD) DISC 3 1. One for Oscar – starts slow & transitions to midtempo then back to slow 2. The Smudge – struttin’ his stuff! 3. Sir Lancewell – midtempo swing 4. Dear Oscar – uptempo swing – radiating the 88s! 5. I Remember OP – slow ballad – gorgeous! 6. Oscar’s New Camera – midtempo swing transitions to uptempo 7. OP’s Boogie – stride piano boogie 8. Trust – slow ballad 9. Emmanuel – slow ballad 10. Look What You’ve Done To Me – slow ballad with vocal 11. Goodbye Old Friend – bass solo, slow ballad 12. Hymn to Freedom – slow ballad builds to uptempo then fades 13. When Summer Comes – slow ballad | ||
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