We Get Requests

1964 studio album by Oscar Peterson
We Get Requests
Studio album by
Oscar Peterson
Released1964
RecordedOctober 19 to November 20, 1964
GenreJazz
Length39:42
LabelVerve
ProducerNorman Granz
Oscar Peterson chronology
Canadiana Suite
(1964) 		We Get Requests
(1964) 		Eloquence
(1965)
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[1]
Record Mirror[2]

We Get Requests is an album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio, released in 1964 and recorded at RCA Studios New York City on October 19 (tracks 1, 5, 7), October 20 (tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9) and November 19 or 20 (track 10). It marks the end of his 14-year partnership with Verve Records.

Track listing

  1. "Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) – 2:49
  2. "The Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) – 2:40
  3. "My One and Only Love" (Robert Mellin, Guy Wood) – 5:08
  4. "People" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) – 3:30
  5. "Have You Met Miss Jones?" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 4:10
  6. "You Look Good to Me" (Seymour Lefco, Clement Wells) – 4:49
  7. "The Girl from Ipanema" (Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel) – 3:51
  8. "D & E" (John Lewis) – 5:11
  9. "Time and Again" (aka Don't You Think?) (Stuff Smith) – 4:38
  10. "Goodbye J.D." (Oscar Peterson) – 2:56

Personnel

The Oscar Peterson Trio

Production

  • Jim Davis - Producer
  • Val Valentin - Director of Engineering
  • Bob Simpson - Recording Engineer

References

  1. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1153. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  2. ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (8 May 1965). "Oscar Peterson Trio: We Get Requests" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 217. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
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