| Oscar Peterson Plays the Irving Berlin Songbook | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Oscar Peterson |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | 1959 |
| Recorded: | 1959 |
| Venue: | Hollywood, Los Angeles |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 31:46 |
| Label: | Verve[1] |
| Prev Title: | Oscar Peterson Plays the Harry Warren Songbook |
| Prev Year: | 1959 |
| Next Title: | Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Songbook |
| Next Year: | 1959 |
Oscar Peterson Plays the Irving Berlin Songbook is a 1959 album by Oscar Peterson of the music of Irving Berlin.[2]
Billboard magazine chose the album as one of its Special Merit Spotlights in their January 18, 1960 issue.[2] Billboard described the album as "inventive and listenable thruout".[2]
Scott Yanow reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that due to Peterson and his trio recording nine albums in a month, " ... not much planning went into the individual songs" and that the subsequent interpretations were "fairly melodic and safe, if swinging. Nothing unexpected occurs, but the music is reasonably pleasing, if lacking in emotional depth". Yanow also noted that the album contained "one of the happier versions ... yet recorded" of Berlin's "Supper Time", a song about a lynching.