Oscar Peterson Jam – Montreux '77

Oscar Peterson Jam – Montreux '77
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Oscar Peterson Jam - Montreux '77
Live album by Oscar Peterson
Released  1977
Recorded  July 14, 1977
Genre  Jazz
Length  50:15
Label  Pablo
Producer  Norman Granz

Oscar Peterson Jam – Montreux '77 is a 1977 live album featuring a jam session led by Oscar Peterson. At the Grammy Awards of 1979, Peterson won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist for his performance on this album.

Track listing

    "Ali and Frazier" (Oscar Peterson) – 9:20
    "If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser) – 10:39
    "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 12:42
    "Just in Time" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) – 9:49
    "Bye Bye Blues" (David Bennett, Chauncey Gray, Frederick Hamm, Bert Lown) – 8:06

Personnel

Recorded July 14, 1977 at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland:
Performance

    Oscar Peterson - piano
    Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - tenor saxophone
    Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet
    Clark Terry
    Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - double bass
    Bobby Durham - drums