Mellow Mood Explained

Mellow Mood
Type:	studio
Artist:	Oscar Peterson
Cover:	Mellow Mood.jpg
Released:	1968
Recorded:	April 1968 at Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer Studio, Villingen, West Germany
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	37:38
Label:	MPS
Producer:	Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer
Prev Title:	The Way I Really Play
Prev Year:	1968
Next Title:	Travelin' On
Next Year:	1968

Mellow Mood is an album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio, released in 1968 (see 1968 in music). The session was recorded in Germany at the private studio of Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer and released on the German MPS label.^[1] This album was the fifth part of Peterson's Exclusively for My Friends series on MPS. The series was reissued as a box set in 1992 by MPS (and later expanded with The Lost Tapes). A remastered SACD was issued in 2003 on Verve Records.

Reception

Writing for AllMusic, critic Ken Dryden wrote "The fifth volume of Oscar Peterson's Exclusively for My Friends series is another lively trio affair with Sam Jones and Bobby Durham, though the album title Mellow Mood is a bit deceptive."

The Penguin Guide to Jazz includes the album in its selected "Core Collection".^[2]

Track listing

"In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington, Milt Gabler) – 6:07
"Nica's Dream" (Horace Silver) – 7:56
"On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronislau Kaper, Ned Washington) – 6:27
"Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 5:30
"Sometimes I'm Happy" (Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans) – 5:12
"Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 6:26

Personnel

Notes and References

MPS was distributed in the UK by Polydor. In the U.S. the album was issued by Pausa Records the same year.
Book: Cook, Richard. Richard Cook (journalist). Brian Morton . Brian Morton (Scottish writer) . The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. 1992. 9th. The Penguin Guide to Jazz. 2008. Penguin. New York. 978-0-14-103401-0. 1153.