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Oscar Peterson recorded a remarkable amount of albums during his career but, surprisingly, this was his first full record of unaccompanied piano solos. Some observers consider his MPS recordings to be his best (quite a few are collected in the four-CD reissue Exclusively for My Friends, including this one). The solo album features Peterson (freed from the constraints of his trio) stretching out on nine familiar standards and really tearing into a few of them, including "Perdido," "Bye Bye Blackbird," "Lulu's Back in Town," while giving "Little Girl Blue" a beautiful and lyrical treatment. A prelude to his outstanding Pablo recordings, My Favorite Instrument is one of Peterson's top albums of the 1960s.
Oscar Peterson
My Favorite Instrument (Exclusively for My Friends, Vol. 4)
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AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow
Track Listing
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| 2 | 06:17 | Amazon | |||||
| 3 | 04:36 | Amazon | |||||
| 4 | 05:02 | Amazon | |||||
| 5 | 04:56 | Amazon | |||||
| 6 | 04:48 | Amazon | |||||
| 7 | 02:10 | Amazon | |||||
| 8 | 06:07 | Amazon | |||||
| 9 | 02:39 | Amazon |
