Buddy De Franco and the Oscar Peterson Quartet
This CD includes the complete album: "Buddy De Franco and the Oscar Peterson Quartet" (Verve LP, 1954).
Recorded in Los Angeles, October 29, 1954.
As a bonus track, there is "Lullaby In Rhythm", an extended 23+ minute studio jam session recorded the following day and with the same personnel plus Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Harris and Flip Phillips. The solo order on this rare track is as follows: Oscar Peterson, Bill Harris, Flip Phillips, Herb Ellis, Buddy De Franco, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie and finally Louis Bellson.
"The unerring rhythm section behind Buddy all the way...is, I feel, one of the most rocking, irresistible forces in modern jazz with corollart taste and accuracy in the more lyrical assignments". - Nat Hentoff (from the liner notes)
Featuring Buddy DeFranco (cl), Oscar Peterson (p), Herb Ellis (g), Ray Brown (b), Louie Bellson (d)
Tracklisting:
1. Sweet And Lovely (7:06)
2. Fascinating Rhythm (4:54)
3. Love For Sale (9:30)
4. Easy To Love (4:58)
5. Pick Yourself Up (11:26)
6. They Can't Take That Away From Me (6:05)
7. Lullaby In Rhythm (23:44)*
Total Time: 67:46 min.
Released 2006.