London House Sessions Review
by Scott Yanow
Oscar Peterson's week-long engagement at Chicago's London House was initially partially released as four LPs: The Trio, The Sound of the Trio, Put On a Happy Face and Something Warm. This five-CD set greatly expands upon the program, reissuing the four albums and 30 previously unissued selections. Peterson, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen worked together quite well, with O.P. easily the dominant force, but this very extensive set is mostly for Peterson completists and his greatest fans, because a certain sameness pervades the music after awhile.
The London House Sessions is a compilation album collecting music recorded by the Oscar Peterson Trio at the London House jazz club in Chicago in the summer of 1961.
Selected tracks from these concerts were previously released on four albums in 1961 and 1962: The Trio, The Sound of the Trio, Put On a Happy Face, and Something Warm. Those albums are included as part of the complete Sessions, along with 23 previously-unreleased tracks (including several versions of frequent set-closer "Billy Boy"). Several additional tracks were subsequently included on the CD reissues of The Trio and The Sound of the Trio.
The London House Sessions was initially released on four LPs. It was also released as a five CD box set in 1996 by Polygram.[1]
Disc One
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original release | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "I've Never Been in Love Before" | Frank Loesser | The Trio | 5:35 |
| 2. | "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" | Bob Hilliard, David Mann | The Trio | 8:07 |
| 3. | "Chicago" | Fred Fisher | The Trio | 8:55 |
| 4. | "The Night We Called It a Day" | Tom Adair, Matt Dennis | The Trio | 4:47 |
| 5. | "Sometimes I'm Happy" | Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey, Vincent Youmans | The Trio | 11:41 |
| 6. | "Whisper Not" | Benny Golson | The Trio | 5:46 |
| 7. | "Billy Boy" | Traditional | The Trio | 1:46 |
| 8. | "Tricotism (Tractitism)" | Oscar Pettiford | The Sound of the Trio | 11:08 |
| 9. | "Billy Boy" | Traditional | Previously unreleased | 3:05 |
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