Night Train (album)
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| Studio album by Oscar Peterson Trio | ||||
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admission |
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| Label (s) | Verve Records | |||
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
67:40 (new CD edition) |
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Norman Granz |
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los Angeles |
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Night Train is a studio album by the Oscar Peterson Trio . It was released on Verve Records in 1963 . The album was one of the most commercially successful releases by Canadian jazz pianist Peterson and is considered one of the best jazz albums ever.
Recordings
The pictures were taken on 15 and 16 December 1962 in Los Angeles with Ray Brown on bass and Ed Thigpen on drums and includes mainly instrumental renditions of blues - and R & B - Standards and several Duke Ellington -compositions or Great-American- Songbook classic Georgia on My Mind . The album also contains Peterson's own composition and first recording of Hymn to Freedom , which was realized as a gospel with the Malcolm Dodds Singers and which - reinterpreted by him and others several times later - is considered Peterson's most important composition.
The album was produced by Norman Granz , who at that time had already helped jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong , Charlie Parker and Stan Getz to achieve commercial success. Unusual for the jazz environment were the tracks, which were arranged to a length of between two and five minutes and were intended to ensure radio airplay in this way .
Album cover
The internationally successful photographer Pete Turner was hired for the photo of the album cover . While many jazz albums of this time were still characterized by black and white recordings, the picture on Night Train showed a locomotive in the harsh contrasts and saturated colors typical of Turner. The lyrics for the album cover were written by the British author and jazz saxophonist Benny Green .
Track list
| No. | page | title | Originator | Duration |
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| 1 | A. | Night train | Duke Ellington | 4:52 |
| 2 | A. | C Jam Blues | Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard | 3:26 |
| 3 | A. | Georgia on My Mind | Hoagy Carmichael , Stuart Gorrell | 3:46 |
| 4th | A. | Bags' groove | Milt Jackson | 5:43 |
| 5 | A. | Moten swing | Bennie Moten | 2:55 |
| 6th | A. | Easy Does It | Sy Oliver , Trummy Young | 2:45 |
| 7th | B. | Honey dripper | Joe Liggins | 2:24 |
| 8th | B. | Things Ain't What They Used to Be | Mercer Ellington , Ted Persons | 4:38 |
| 9 | B. | I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) | Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster | 5:08 |
| 10 | B. | Band call | Duke Ellington | 3:55 |
| 11 | B. | Hymn to Freedom | Oscar Peterson | 5:38 |
reception
The Penguin Guide of Jazz describes the album as “one of the best LPs of the era” and praises the good interplay of the “top form” jazz formation. The Rolling Stone Magazine lists Night Train at number 53 of the best jazz albums of all time, on the published 2006 list of Jazzwise magazine, The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World landed it on the 75th rank.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hymn to Freedom - Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame . In: Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame . ( cshf.ca [accessed October 1, 2017]).
- ^ Christian Lund: The Oscar Peterson Trio - "Night Train" . In: music . ( nw.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
- ↑ Oscar Peterson | Night train . In: www.jazzecho.de . ( jazzecho.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
- ↑ Top 100 Jazz Albums - the Complete List . In: Rolling Stone . November 19, 2013 ( rollingstone.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).