The Oscar Peterson Trio - The Music From Fiorello! (1960) [Remastered 2005]

The Oscar Peterson Trio - The Music From Fiorello! (1960) [Remastered 2005]
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Genre ~ Bop, Piano Jazz | Label ~ Verve Music Group

"It has well deserved Oscar Peterson's care too-a fact there melodically famed. Peterson's Song Book recordings be seized of confirmed that any theatrical score benefits from his impulsive and staccato touch. With regard to, and during, Fiorello! he demonstrates that the symphony, seemingly an inextricable part of the Jerome Weidman-George Abbott part - and married so effectively to the tricky lyrics - has a divisible validity after all. Even so plotty a poem as "Unfair" or "Politics and Poker" has a melodic surprise. Whether going all-out and clapping hands in opposition to "Gentleman Jimmy" or opening up a "Little Tin Box" by caesuras and glissandi or working "On the Side of the Angels" through a supper-club piano, Oscar Peterson is delineating the values in Jerry Bock's symphony and re-creating the excitement of Fiorello!"