The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Oscar Peterson Trio at the Opera House
1957 live album by Modern Jazz Quartet / Oscar Peterson Trio
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Live album by Modern Jazz Quartet / Oscar Peterson Trio | ||||
Released | 1957 | |||
Recorded | October 19, 1957 | |||
Venue | The Opera House, Chicago | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 37:01 | |||
Label | Verve MGV 8269 | |||
Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Oscar Peterson Trio at the Opera House is a live album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet and the Oscar Peterson Trio featuring performances recorded in Chicago in 1957 and released as a split album on the Verve label.[2] The tracks by Oscar Peterson were subsequently released on Peterson's 1957 album Oscar Peterson at the Concertgebouw.[3]
Reception
The AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow stated: "While the MJQ sounds much more introverted than the more exuberant Oscar Peterson Trio, the two popular groups have more similarities than differences".[1]
Track listing
Side One:
- "D & E Blues" (John Lewis) - 4:08
- "Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker) - 4:34
- "'Round About Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) - 3:47
Side Two:
- "Should I?" (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed) - 4:28
- "Big Fat Mama" (Lucky Millinder, Stafford Simon) - 7:24
- "Indiana" (James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) - 3:55
- "Joy Spring" (Clifford Brown) - 5:27
- "Elevation" (Elliot Lawrence, Gerry Mulligan) - 3:18
Personnel
Side One:
- Milt Jackson - vibraphone
- John Lewis - piano
- Percy Heath - bass
- Connie Kay - drums
Side Two
- Oscar Peterson - piano
- Herb Ellis - guitar
- Ray Brown - bass
References
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Milt Jackson, John Lewis, Percy Heath, Connie Kay
except where indicated.
Kenny Clarke, Mickey Roker, Albert Heath
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release,except where indicated.
albums
- Wizard of the Vibes (as Milt Jackson Quartet, 1952)
- 1953: An Exceptional Encounter (and Ben Webster, 1953)
- Django (1953–55)
- Concorde (1955)
- Fontessa (1956)
- The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn (1956)
- The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays No Sun in Venice (1957)
- The Modern Jazz Quartet (1957)
- The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Oscar Peterson Trio at the Opera House (1957)
- The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn Volume 2 (with Sonny Rollins, 1958)
- Pyramid (1959–60)
- Music from Odds Against Tomorrow/Patterns (1959)
- European Concert (1960)
- Dedicated to Connie (1960 [1995])
- The Comedy (1960–62)
- The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra (1960)
- Lonely Woman (1962)
- The Sheriff (1963)
- Collaboration (and Laurindo Almeida, 1964)
- The Modern Jazz Quartet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1964–65)
- Jazz Dialogue (1965)
- Blues at Carnegie Hall (1966)
- Place Vendôme (and The Swingle Singers, 1966)
- Live at the Lighthouse (1967)
- Under the Jasmin Tree (1967)
- Space (1969)
- Plastic Dreams (1971)
- The Legendary Profile (1972)
- In Memoriam (1973)
- Blues on Bach (1973)
- The Complete Last Concert (1974 [1988])
- Reunion at Budokan 1981 (1981)
- Together Again: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival '82 (1982)
- Echoes (1984)
- Topsy: This One's for Basie (1985)
- Three Windows (1987)
- For Ellington (1988)
- MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (1992–1993)