tracks

I've Got Rhythm
If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
Humoresque
Blue Moon
China Boy
Sweet Lorraine
Indiana
Margie
I Surrender Dear
Oo-Bop-Sh'Bam
Sweet Georgia Brown
Rockin' In Rhythm
Fine And Dandy
Somebody Loves Me
Debut
Where Or When
Oscar's Blues
Tenderly
Little White Lies
Get Happy
Jumpin With Symphony Sid
Deep Purple
Robbins' Nest
I'll Remember April
Lover
Squatty Roo
After All
Caravan
Salute To Garner
The Way You Look Tonight
Gai/Padovani/ Ray's Blues
Fine And Dandy
I Only Have Eyes For You
Gypsy In My Soul
Laura
Turtle Neck
It's Easy To Remember
Pooper
Love For Sale
Until The Real Thing Comes Along
You Go To My Head
These Foolish Things
I Can't Get Started
Lang Ago And Far Away
It Ain't Necessarily So
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Night And Day
Fascinating Rhythm
Cheek To Cheek
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
In A Mellow Tone
Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin'
Sophisticated Lady
Thake The "A" Train
Cotton Tail
Prelude To A Kiss
Things Ain't What They Used To Be
Rockin' In Rhythm
Do Nothing 'Till You Hear From Me
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
John Hardy's Wife
Sweet Georgia Brown
C Jam Blues
Air Mail Special
Swinging On A Star
The Man I Love
Seven Come Eleven
That Old Black Magic
Tenderly
Sushi Blues
Alone Together
Swingin' Till The Girls Come Home
Tea For Two
Without A Song
The Song Is You
The Lady Is A Tramp
Blue Moon
Lover
I Want To Be Happy
Should I
Nuages
I Only Have Eyes For You
I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
I Can't Give You Anything But Love

notes

Track 1-1: Oscar Peterson Trio recorded in Montreal, April 30, 1945.
Tracks 1-2, 1-3 recorded in Montreal, August 17, 1945.
Tracks 1-4, 1-5 recorded in Montreal, April 3, 1946.
Track 1-6 recorded in Montreal, July 23, 1946.
Tracks 1-7 -- 1-9 recorded in Montreal, April 17, 1947.
Tracks 1-10 -- 1-12 recorded in Montreal, March 1, 1949.
Tracks 1-13, 1-14 recorded in Montreal, November 14, 1949.
Tracks 1-15 -- 1-18 recorded in New York, March 1950.
Tracks 1-19 -- 1-25 recorded in New York, May 8, 1950.

Tracks 2-1 -- 2-5 recorded in New York, August 1950.
Tracks 2-6 -- 2-8 from The Oscar Peterson Set, Jazz At The Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, New York, September 16, 1950.
Tracks 2-9, 2-10 recorded in New York, January 19, 1951.
Tracks 2-11 -- 2-15 recorded in Los Angeles, November 25, 1951.
Tracks 2-16 -- 2-18 recorded in Los Angeles, January 26, 1952.

Tracks 2-19 -- 3-15 recorded in Los Angeles, December 1952.
Tracks 3-16, 3-17 recorded at Jazz at the Philharmonia, Louisiana, February, 1953.
Tracks 3-18 -- 3-21 recorded at Jazz at the Philharmonic, Bushnell Memorial Auditorium, Hartford, Connecticut, May 1953.

Tracks 4-1 -- 4-5 recorded at Jazz at the Philharmonic, Nichigeki Theatre, Tokyo, November 18, 1953.
Tracks 4-6 -- 4-11 recorded in Hollywood December 7, 1953.
Track 4-12 recorded in Hollywood December 10, 1953.
Tracks 4-13, 4-14 recorded at Jazz at the Philharmonic, Bushnell Memorial Auditorium, Hartford, Connecticut, September 19, 1954.
Tracks 4-15, 4-16 recorded in Hollywood November 15, 1954.
Track 4-17 recorded in Hollywood November 16, 1954.

credits

Bass – Albert King (2) (tracks: 1-7 to 1-9), Auston Roberts, (tracks: 1-10 to 1-14), Bert Brown (4) (tracks: 1-1 to 1-6), Major Holley (tracks: 1-19 to 1-25), Ray Brown (tracks: 1-15 to 1-18, 2-1 to 4-17)
Compiled By – Joop Visser
Design – Raven Design
Drums – Clarence Jones (4) (tracks: 1-10 to 1-12), Frank Gariepy, (tracks: 1-1), J.C. Heard (tracks: 3-18 to 3-21), Mark "Wilkie" Wilkinson (tracks: 1-7 to 1-9), Roland Verdon (tracks: 1-2, 1-3), Ross Dufort (tracks: 1-4 to 1-6)
Guitar – Armand Samson (tracks: 1-2, 1-3), Barney Kessel (tracks: 2-11 to 2-15, 2-19 to 3-17), Ben Johnson (15) (tracks: 1-13, 1-14), Herb Ellis (tracks: 3-18 to 4-17), Irving Ashby (tracks: 2-16 to 2-18)
Photography [courtesy of] – Frank Diggs, Joop Visser, Lee Tanner
Piano – Oscar Peterson
Remastered By – Peter Rynston

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