Night Train (Oscar Peterson album)

For the album by Jason Aldean, see Night Train (Jason Aldean album).
Night Train
Studio album by The Oscar Peterson Trio
Released 1963
Recorded December 16, 1962
Genre Jazz
Length 67:40 (1997 re-release)
Label Verve
Producer Norman Granz
The Oscar Peterson Trio chronology

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(1963)		 Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle
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Night Train is an album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio, released in 1962 by Verve Records. It was one of Peterson's most commercially successful recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz included it in its core collection, claiming "it's one of the best long-players of the period" and that Peterson's playing is "tight and uncharacteristically emotional".[2]

Album producer Norman Granz had sold the record label Verve, but remained Peterson's manager, and so supervised the Night Train recording session. The brief duration of many of the tracks has been attributed to a desire to have them played on commercial radio, which was reluctant to play any tracks longer than a few minutes.

Ed Thigpen's rivet cymbal, recorded at very close range, is prominent on all issues of the album.[3]

Track listing

Side one
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Night Train"  Duke Ellington 4:52
2. "C Jam Blues"  Barney Bigard, Ellington 3:26
3. "Georgia on My Mind"  Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell 3:46
4. "Bags' Groove"  Milt Jackson 5:43
5. "Moten Swing"  Benny Moten 2:55
6. "Easy Does It"  Sy Oliver, Trummy Young 2:45
Side two
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
7. "Honey Dripper"  Joe Liggins 2:24
8. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be"  Mercer Ellington, Ted Parsons 4:38
9. "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good"  Ellington, Paul Francis Webster 5:08
10. "Band Call"  Ellington 3:55
11. "Hymn to Freedom"  Oscar Peterson 5:38


CD bonus tracks
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
12. "Happy Go Lucky Local (A.K.A. Night Train) (alternate take)"  Ellington 5:00
13. "Volare"  Francesci Migliacci, Domenico Modugno, Mitchell Parish 2:49
14. "My Heart Belongs to Daddy"  Cole Porter 3:57
15. "Moten Swing(rehearsal take)"  Bennie Moten 3:36
16. "Now's the Time"  Charlie Parker 2:36
17. "This Could Be the Start of Something Big"  Steve Allen 5:11

(Tracks 12 through 17 are CD bonus tracks, not included on the original vinyl LP)

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References

  1. ↑ Bush, John. "Review: Oscar Peterson Trio - Night Train". Allmusic. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
  2. ↑ Cook, Richard and Morton, Brian (2008) The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.), Penguin, p. 1153.
  3. ↑ Katz, Dick (December 1996) [CD booklet in 1997 Verve re-issue]