Released in 1995, An Oscar Peterson Christmas finds the seventy-year-old jazz veteran comfortably gliding through fourteen Christmas standards. It’s cozy, warm, and familiar — everything one could hope for from a jazz record to soundtrack the holiday season.
Category: Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson :: Romance (1954)
Our ‘Midnite Jazz’ series continues with an often overlooked release from Oscar Peterson’s mid-fifties output. Romance features the decorated jazz pianist stepping in front of the microphone for his vocal debut, softly crooning his way through standards and ballads with pure class and cozy intimacy.