Buddy De Franco and Oscar Peterson - Play The George Gershwin Song Book
Featuring Buddy DeFranco (cl), Oscar Peterson (p), Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown (b), Bobby White (d) plus wind and string Orchestra
This CD includes the complete "Buddy De Franco and Oscar Peterson Play The George Gershwin Song Book " (Verve LP, 1954).
"[Throughout this session] both Peterson's and DeFranco's playing is lyrical, tasteful and evenly paced." (- All About Jazz)
Tracklisting:
1. I wants to stay here
2. I was doing all right
3. 'S wonderful
4. Bess, you is my woman now
5. Strike up the band
6. They can't take that away from me
7. The man I love
8. I got rhyhtm
9. Someone to watch over me
10. It ain't necessarily so
11. I wants to stay here (Alternate take)
12. Someone to watch over me (Alternate take)
Total Time: 50:29 min.
Recorded in Los Angeles, December 6 & 7, 1954.
Personnel: Buddy DeFranco (cl), Oscar Peterson (p), Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown (b) & Bobby White (d).
With Harry Betts, Nick DiMaio, Murray McEachern, Dick Noel, Pullman "Tommy" Pederson (tb), Nick DeRisi (fhr) and Marty Berman, Jack Dumont, Herman Glunker, Jules Jacobs (woodwinds). String orchestra conducted and arranged by Russell Garcia.
Released 2006.