The Oscar Peterson Trio: Night Train (LP, Universal)

Vinyl LP repressing. From the opening bars of the title track of this beautiful album, Oscar Peterson lays down the kind of piano playing for which he had been famous for well over a decade; the deftness of touch, the almost sleight of hand, as he beguiles the listener into making it sound all too easy. Peterson talks through the piano and at his best he makes the piano sing. Just listen to ‘Georgia On My Mind’ who needs a vocal? While Peterson has at times, unfairly, been called an unemotional.