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Oscar Peterson Performance 1983 Live in Tokyo

Rick Beato has a youtube entitled greatest solo of all time. I went for it and Beato pulls out this Oscar Peterson trio performance at Ronni Scotts 1974. Oscar burns a hole in the floor with the longest, beautifully tuned grand I have ever seen. From both a technical  and musical standpoint, darn it if Beato isn't right! So, I pulled up the entire performance and watched it on the big system. The trio is Oscar, Neils Pederson (bass) and Joe Pass (guitar). Oscar is doubling as percussion. The entire performance is mind bending. I never realized how good Pederson and Pass were. I'd never heard them in a live performance. The Studio Records always seemed to me to be...contrived. Not forgetting about Oscar's playing, Pederson and Pass are both up there with the greats. Even if the music is not your cup of tea the technique of all three artists will amaze. There are more "I can't believe he just did that" moments in this video than I have ever seen and heard in one performance before. If you have not seen it please enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBJ1vU23X4A
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tablejockey
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Pretty much the same thing here but with another of my top guitar picks
Barney Kessel. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj93v9j2A4A

You probably know he is on the same level as Joe and other greats. But many don't know they have heard his playing in countless movie/tv soundtracks. A wrecking crew member before the "wrecking crew" First call player.

Beato is a good technical analyst.  I always get a refresh course on music theory with Rick.

A VERY good sounding live  LP is "The Good Life" Pablo 1973
Oscar Peterson
Joe Pass
Neils-Henning Orsted Pederesen

Smokin trio. One of those "you are there" recordings.
tablejockey
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"The Good Life was taken from the same sessions as The Trio"


The LP jacket says it was recorded at the London House hotel in Chicago-May 1973. I'm guessing it's a "supper club" setting? You can hear the waiters running around, glasses/plates being shuffled
about. Once you settle into the album, you want to signal a waiter over for a drink!
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