{"id":563,"date":"2006-07-07T12:15:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T19:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=563"},"modified":"2006-07-07T12:15:23","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T19:15:23","slug":"weekend_correspondence_oscar_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/07\/weekend_correspondence_oscar_p\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Correspondence: Oscar Peterson Trio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Washington, DC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The other morning I was pawing through my CD collection, looking for something to accompany my pre-work meal when I came upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB0000046LP%2Fqid%3D1152299863%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fs%3Dmusic%26v%3Dglance%26n%3D5174\"target=\"_blnak\"><em>The Oscar Peterson Trio at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival<\/em><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I put it on and, in seconds, was reminded why that recording has stayed near the top of my all-time best list for nearly 50 years.  For sheer head-long momentum, nothing I have ever heard can match it. Peterson has headed some notable trios, but the Herbie Ellis-Ray Brown edition beats &#8217;em all. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The chemistry among those three guys bordered on the miraculous. And I defy anyone to show me how any other three people ever achieved grooves of that incredible depth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I bought the LP in the winter of &#8217;57-&#8217;58 while stationed with the Air Force in Fairbanks, Alaska. My roommate for part of that year was the drummer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/roy-mccurdy\"target=\"_blank\">Roy McCurdy<\/a>. As wonderful a drummer as he is &#8211; and as partial to his instrument as he is &#8211; he had to admit that he couldn&#8217;t imagine how the group could swing any harder with the addition of a drummer. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>As I listened to the trio this week, to tunes like &#8220;Gypsy in My Soul&#8221;, &#8220;Love You Madly&#8221; and &#8220;Noreen&#8217;s Nocturne&#8221;, they produced the same reactions in me they did nearly a half-century ago&#8211;laugh-out-loud amazement and delight.  That, it seems to me, is one definition of great art.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>John Birchard<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Washington, DC: The other morning I was pawing through my CD collection, looking for something to accompany my pre-work meal when I came upon The Oscar Peterson Trio at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. I put it on and, in seconds, was reminded why that recording has stayed near the top of my all-time best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}