''Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings – Jousts'' is a 1974

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Oscar Peterson Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. As a virtuoso who is considered to be one of the greatest Jazz piano, jazz pianists of all time, Peterson released more than 200 recordin ...

, consisting of duets with the trumpeters Harry "Sweets" Edison, Jon Faddis, Clark Terry,

Roy Eldridge David Roy Eldridge (January 30, 1911 – February 26, 1989), nicknamed "Little Jazz", was an American jazz trumpeter. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, his virtuosic solos exhibiting a departure from ...

and

Dizzy Gillespie John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ( ; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improvisation, improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy El ...

. Peterson had recently recorded individual albums with each of the trumpeters, released as '' Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie'' (1974), '' Oscar Peterson and Roy Eldridge'' (1974), '' Oscar Peterson and Harry Edison'' (1974), '' Oscar Peterson and Clark Terry'' (1975), and '' Oscar Peterson and Jon Faddis'' (1975).

Track listing

# "Danish Pastry" (

, Clark Terry) – 5:53 # " Crazy Rhythm" ( Irving Caesar, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Joseph Meyer) – 5:34 # " Stella by Starlight" (

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, Victor Young) – 5:58 # " Satin Doll" (

Duke Ellington Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American Jazz piano, jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous Big band, jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Born and raised in Washington, D ...

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) – 5:33 # "Oakland Blues" ( Jon Faddis, Peterson) – 8:10 # " There Is No Greater Love" ( Marty Symes, Isham Jones) – 4:47 # " Caravan" (

Irving Mills Irving Harold Mills (born Isadore Minsky; January 18, 1894 Odessa, Ukraine – April 21, 1985) was a music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz promoter. He often used the pseudonyms Goody Goodwin and Joe Primrose. Personal life Mills ...

, Juan Tizol) – 3:48 # " Makin' Whoopee" ( Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 4:39 # "Trust in Me" ( Milton Ager,

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, Ned Wever) – 4:04

Personnel

Performance

– piano and organ *

– trumpet (tracks 2, 7) * Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet (tracks 4, 8) *

– trumpet (tracks 3, 6) * Jon Faddis – trumpet (track 5) * Clark Terry – trumpet (tracks 1, 9)

References

1974 collaborative albums Oscar Peterson albums Dizzy Gillespie albums Jon Faddis albums Roy Eldridge albums Pablo Records albums Instrumental duet albums Albums produced by Norman Granz {{1970s-jazz-album-stub