Artist: Oscar Peterson & Fred Astaire
Title: Complete Norman Granz Sessions
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: Jazz Factory
Genre: Jazz
Quality: MP3 320 kbps
Total Time: 02:35:51 (2 CD)
Total Size: 372 Mb
Perhaps more organically grounded than his earlier Hollywood recordings, Fred Astaire's December 1952 collaborations with pianist Oscar Peterson have an intimate honesty about them that some might find comforting. Of course, most of this material, written by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Arthur Schwartz, Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Johnny Mercer, and the Gershwin brothers, is tied directly to Astaire's motion-picture career. Included are two ad-lib tap dance inventions and three original compositions devised especially for this project by Peterson. Producer Norman Granz fortified the sessions with the Jazz at the Philharmonic All-Stars, placing trumpeter Charlie Shavers and tenor saxophonist Flip Phillips in front and surrounding the pianist with guitarist Barney Kessel, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Alvin Stoller. You can't beat 40 tracks featuring Fred and Oscar together.
Tracklist:
CD 1
1. Isn't This A Lovely Day (4:28)
2. Puttin' On The Ritz (2:52)
3. I Used To Be Color Blind (4:17)
4. The Continental (3:30)
5. Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (4:38)
6. Change Partners (3:15)
7. 's Wonderful (2:59)
8. Lovely To Look At (3:28)
9. They All Laughed (2:57)
10. Cheek To Cheek (5:41)
11. Steppin' Out With My Baby (2:24)
12. The Way You Look Tonight (2:59)
13. I've Got My Eye On You (2:59)
14. Dancing In The Dark (4:47)
15. The Carioca (4:49)
16. Nice Work If I Can Get It (2:09)
17. New Sun In The Sky (2:28)
18. I Won't Dance (3:03)
19. Fast Dances (2:46)
20. Top Hat White Tie And Talls (4:02)
21. No Strings (2:57)
22. I Concentrate On You (2:45)
23. I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket (2:54)
CD 2
1. A Fine Romance (3:46)
2. Night And Day (5:24)
3. Fascinating Rhythm (2:44)
4. I Love Louisa (2:40)
5. Slow Dances (2:57)
6. Medium Dance (2:03)
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me (4:24)
8. You're Easy To Dance With (3:23)
9. A Needle In A Haystack (2:23)
10. So Near And Yet So Far Away (3:20)
11. A Foggy Day (4:01)
12. Oh, Lady Be Good (5:03)
13. I'm Building Up To An Awfull Letdown (4:00)
14. Not My Girl (3:39)
15. Jam Sessions For A Dancer (6:35)
16. The Astaire Blues (12:03)
17. The Second Astaire Blues (7:52)
