Oscar Peterson Jam – Montreux '77 Explained

Oscar Peterson Jam - Montreux '77
Type:	live
Artist:	Oscar Peterson
Border:	yes
Released:	1977
Recorded:	July 14, 1977
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	50:15
Label:	Pablo
Producer:	Norman Granz
Prev Title:	Porgy and Bess
Prev Year:	1976
Next Title:	Oscar Peterson and the Bassists - Montreux '77
Next Year:	1977

Oscar Peterson Jam – Montreux '77 is a 1977 live album featuring a jam session led by Oscar Peterson. At the Grammy Awards of 1979, Peterson won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist for his performance on this album.

Track listing

1. "Ali and Frazier" (Oscar Peterson) – 9:20
2. "If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser) – 10:39
3. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 12:42
4. "Just in Time" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) – 9:49
5. "Bye Bye Blues" (David Bennett, Chauncey Gray, Frederick Hamm, Bert Lown) – 8:06

Personnel

Recorded July 14, 1977 at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland:

Performance

• Oscar Peterson - piano
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - tenor saxophone
• Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet
• Clark Terry - trumpet
• Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - double bass
• Bobby Durham - drums

Production

• Norman Granz - producer
• Giuseppe Pino - photography
• Phil DeLancie - remastering