Oscar Peterson & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

North Sea Jazz Festival 1979

North Sea Jazz Festival

The North Sea Jazz Festival is an annual festival held each second weekend of July in the Netherlands at the Ahoy venue. It used to be in The Hague but since 2006 it has been held in Rotterdam. This is because the Statenhal where the festival was held before was demolished in 2006. As of 3 November 2017 the festival officially will be known as the NN North Sea Jazz Festival.^[1]

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Oscar Peterson & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
North Sea Jazz Festival 1979

Track listing  

"Sweet Georgia Brown" by Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, Ken Casey; 

"April in Paris" by E. Y. Harburg, Vernon Duke;

"Shiny stockings" by Frank Foster;

"I can't get started" by Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke.

"It's you or no one" by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne.

 "All blues" by Miles Davis.

"People" by Bob Merrill, Jule Styne;

"Old folks" by Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison;

"Ballad";

"Peterson's blues" by Oscar Peterson;

"Soft winds" by Fred Royal, Benny Goodman;

"There is no greater love" by Marty Symes, Isham Jones.

"She got it";

"In the still of the night" by Cole Porter (AC solo).

"Never ending boogie";

"Lover" by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart. 8.

"Honeysuckle Rose" by Andy Razaf, Fats Waller;

"Speak low" by Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill;

"Isn't she lovely".  

Personnel 

1. Count Basie and his Orchestra (Count Basie, piano; Freddie Green, gtr).

2. Ella Fitzgerald, vocal; + orchestra.

3. The Dexter Gordon Quartet:- Dexter Gordon, tenor sax; Kirk Lightsey, piano; Rufus Reid, acoustic double bass; Eddie Gladden, drums.

4. Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, piano.

5. Oscar Peterson, piano; Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, acoustic double bass.

6. Arnett Cobb, Buddy Tate, tenor sax; Hank Jones, piano; Gene Ramey, acoustic double bass; Gus Johnson, drums.

7. Dorothy Donegan, piano; + rhythm.

8. Monty Alexander Quartet:- Monty Alexanderr, piano; (?)b; Frank Gant, drums; Bobby Thomas, percussion.  

 Recorded on 15th July 1979 in the Congress Gebouw, The Hague.

NORTHSEA JAZZ FESTIVAL 1979