A Tribute to Oscar Peterson
Andrew Litton
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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Lulu's Back In Town
Andrew Litton |
2:14 | |||
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1.2
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'Round Midnight
Andrew Litton |
6:31 | |||
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1.3
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Body and Soul
Andrew Litton |
5:37 | |||
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1.4
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A Child Is Born
Andrew Litton |
3:09 | |||
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1.5
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Jumbo: Little Girl Blue
Andrew Litton |
6:27 | |||
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1.6
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Take the A Train
Andrew Litton |
2:50 | |||
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1.7
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Basin Street Blues
Andrew Litton |
4:42 | |||
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1.8
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Rosalie: How Long Has This Been Going On?
Andrew Litton |
6:05 | |||
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1.9
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The Nearness of You
Andrew Litton |
3:27 | |||
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1.10
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Over the Rainbow
Andrew Litton |
2:35 | |||
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1.11
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Things Ain't What They Used to Be
Andrew Litton |
3:05 | |||
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1.12
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Perdido
Andrew Litton |
7:19 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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"Litton’s playing is remarkable ... the whole disc is a delight."
- International Piano
"Ballads predominate, providing ample scope for embellishment ... this disc is less about jazz's sound of surprise than sheer delight in dazzlement."
- BBC Music Magazine
"Four Stars ... Litton has followed and played this music for a long time and clearly understands how to interpret these amazing arrangements of Peterson’s recordings. His idea is to replicate in modern hi-res audio what the master did on these tunes ... Litton is playing a Bösendorfer Imperial grand piano, so the sound is much better than any of Peterson’s recordings ..."
- Audiophile Audition
"... beautifully recorded, artistically successful ... Litton is an articulate soloist, stylistically very much aware of the milieu, plays on a gorgeous-sounding Bösendorfer Imperial in an excellent acoustic venue ... confirmed Petersonians may baulk at Litton being, as they might see it, literalist in his tribute. Others will greatly enjoy his joyful and confident salute, whilst knowing that Oscar’s recordings are always available to listen to and that Litton is offering a nuanced and personal salute to the great man."
- MusicWeb International
Conductor and pianist Andrew Litton has been hooked on Oscar Peterson since receiving an album of Peterson's as a 16th birthday gift. Calling it an epiphany, Litton was struck by the amazing colours, the voicing, the achingly beautiful original harmonies and the feathering of the sustain pedal only Horowitz could match. Collecting all of Peterson’s recordings and seeking out opportunities to hear him live and meet him in person, over the years Litton realized that the admiration he felt was shared by many of the classical musicians he met during his day job as a conductor. When he started to come across transcriptions of Peterson’s improvisations made by such musician friends, Litton began learning them himself. As he kept learning new improvisations, what Litton himself describes as "a dream" took shape, to record his own performances of some of these transcriptions as a tribute to his hero.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – BIS Studio Masters
Tracks 1 - 12 – 96 kHz / 20-bit PCM Recorded in Potton Hall, Suffolk, UK, November 2012
Tracks 1 - 12 – 96 kHz / 20-bit PCM Recorded in Potton Hall, Suffolk, UK, November 2012
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -2.82 -5.26 to -0.01 | -25.37 -29.95 to -21.77 | -21.68 -26.00 to -18.80 | 14 13 to 15 | |
| 1 | Lulu's Back In Town | -3.10 | -21.77 | -18.8 | 13 |
| 2 | 'Round Midnight | -3.25 | -25.02 | -20.9 | 13 |
| 3 | Body and Soul | -0.37 | -25.67 | -21.9 | 14 |
| 4 | A Child Is Born | -4.62 | -29.95 | -26.0 | 13 |
| 5 | Jumbo: Little Girl Blue | -2.76 | -28.80 | -24.5 | 14 |
| 6 | Take the A Train | -1.40 | -22.66 | -19.5 | 13 |
| 7 | Basin Street Blues | -2.83 | -23.29 | -19.8 | 13 |
| 8 | Rosalie: How Long Has This Been Going On? | -3.37 | -23.54 | -20.4 | 13 |
| 9 | The Nearness of You | -4.68 | -26.29 | -22.7 | 14 |
| 10 | Over the Rainbow | -5.26 | -28.54 | -24.1 | 14 |
| 11 | Things Ain't What They Used to Be | -2.22 | -25.77 | -21.6 | 15 |
| 12 | Perdido | -0.01 | -23.08 | -20.0 | 15 |