LABEL: MPS
CAT NO: 0216397MSW
BARCODE: 4029759163978
Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Sally’s Tomato
2. Sunny
3. By The Time I Get To Phoenix
4. Wandering
5. This Guy’s In Love With You
Side B
1. Wave
2. Dreamsville
3. Yesterday
4. Eleanor Rigby
5. Ode To Billy Joe
OSCAR PETERSON – Motions And Emotions
LP – Limited Edition 180g Blue Vinyl
(*Only 2,000 numbered copies worldwide. Remastered from Analogue Tape.)
Reissue of Oscar Peterson‘s 1969 album Motions & Emotions.
On Motions & Emotions Oscar Peterson presents jazz versions of popular pieces from pop, easy listening and classic songwriters, as the quartet of long-time companions are washed in rich orchestral colours. Arranged and conducted by a magician of the guild, the great Claus Ogerman, who had previously worked for Tom Jobim. The Brazilian is also represented with his standard “Wave“, in which the orchestra builds a luminous tropical backdrop for Peterson’s fantastically dragged phrasing.
Peterson and Ogerman pay tribute to another great orchestra leader, Henry Mancini, in “Sally’s Tomato” with feather-light trilling brilliance. Jimmy Webb‘s “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” experiences a metamorphosis almost into the classical – Ogerman opens infinite sound spaces here with the distantly indulging strings. Bobby Gentry’s “Ode To Billy Joe” cleverly abducts Countryfolk into Bigband Jazz by means of fiery keyboard playing.
Finally the hits: from soul comes Bobby Hebb‘s “Sunny“, whose theme the pianist here cleverly harmonises out to then decorate it bluesy in dialogue with the wind instruments. Burt Bacharach‘s “This Guy’s In Love With You” shines with a leisurely late night mood and a pompous finale. “Yesterday” is provided with a sparkling bossa substructure, while the second Beatles homage “Eleanor Rigby” oscillates between loose groove, deep melancholy and swing. Peterson plus quartet plus orchestra: Enthusiastic detail work also in the popular sector.
“The question about favourite albums is basically not an easy one, except in my case, because Motions & Emotions by Oscar Peterson is actually my absolute favourite album. I think Motions & Emotions might even be the perfect instrumental album.” – Till Brönner (German Jazz trumpeter and professor)
See below for tracklisting…