Saturday Night at the Blue Note

1991 live album by Oscar Peterson

Saturday Night at the Blue Note

Live album by

Oscar Peterson

Released| 1991
Recorded| March 17, 1990
Venue| The Blue Note, New York City
Genre| Jazz
Length| 66:35
Label| Telarc
Producer| Robert Woods
Oscar Peterson chronology
| Live at the Blue Note
(1990)  | Saturday Night at the Blue Note
(1991)  | Last Call at the Blue Note
(1992)

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Source| Rating
Allmusic| [1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [2]

Saturday Night at the Blue Note is a 1991 live album by Oscar Peterson. [3]

## Track listing

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1. "Kelly's Blues" – 11:57
2. "Nighttime" – 10:11
3. Medley: "Love Ballade"/"If You Only Knew" – 10:57
4. "You Look Good to Me" (Seymour Lefco, Clement Wells) – 6:39
5. "Old Folks" (Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison) – 6:43
6. "Reunion Blues" (Milt Jackson) – 7:17
7. "Song to Elitha" – 11:51

All tracks composed by Oscar Peterson, unless otherwise noted.

## Personnel

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### Performance

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* Oscar Peterson – piano
* Herb Ellis – guitar
* Ray Brown – double bass
* Bobby Durham \- drums

### Production

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* Donald Elfman - liner notes
* Kenneth Harmann - engineer
* Jack Renner
* Robert Woods \- producer

## References

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1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1156\. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
3. ^ Saturday Night at AllMusic

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Oscar Peterson

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. Note: All-Star albums feature sideman who are not necessarily listed while titles which include "Oscar Peterson" or the OP Trio are usually shortened.

leader

co-leader|

| Plays
series|

* Duke Ellington (1952)
* George Gershwin (1952)
* Harold Arlen (1954)
* Count Basie (1955)

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1955–58|

* In a Romantic Mood (with Russ Garcia, 1955)
* At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival (1956)
* At the Concertgebouw (1957)
* Soft Sands (with Buddy Bregman, 1957)
* Trio with Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones at Newport (1957)
* My Fair Lady (1958)
* On the Town (1958)
* A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra (1959)
* The Jazz Soul (1959)
* Swinging Brass (with Russ Garcia, 1959)
* Fiorello! (1960)

Plays the
Songbook
(1959)|

* Cole Porter
* Duke Ellington
* George Gershwin
* Harold Arlen
* Jerome Kern
* Richard Rodgers
* Porgy & Bess

The
London
House
Sessions
(1961)|

* Put On a Happy Face
* Something Warm
* The Sound of the Trio
* The Trio (Verve)

Trio

Guests|

* Very Tall (with Milt Jackson, 1961)
* Affinity (1962)
* Bursting Out with the All-Star Big Band! (1962)
* Night Train (1962)
* West Side Story (1962)
* And Nelson Riddle (1963)
* Canadiana Suite (1964)
* Plays (1964)
* \+ One (with Clark Terry, 1964)
* We Get Requests (1964)
* Eloquence (1965)
* I/We Had a Ball (multiple groups, 1965)
* With Respect to Nat (1965)
* Blues Etude (1966)
* Soul Español (1966)
* The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple groups, 1967)

Exclusively
for

Friends|

* Action (1963–64)
* Girl Talk (1965–68)
* The Way I Really Play (1967)
* The Lost Tapes (1967–68)
* Mellow Mood (1968)
* My Favorite Instrument (1968)
* Travelin' On (1968)

1969–79|

* Hello Herbie (1969)
* Motions and Emotions (with Claus Ogerman, 1969)
* Another Day (1970)
* Tracks (1970)
* Tristeza on Piano (1970)
* Walking the Line (1970)
* Great Connection (1971)
* In Tune (and The Singers Unlimited, 1971)
* Reunion Blues (and Milt Jackson, 1971)
* In Tokyo (1972)
* Solo (1972)
* The History of an Artist, Vol. 1 (1972)
* The History of an Artist, Vol. 2 (1972)
* The trio (Pablo, 1973)
* In Russia (1974)
* The Giants (1974)
* The Good Life (1974)
* Oscar Peterson et Joe Pass à Salle Pleyel (1975)
* Porgy and Bess (and Joe Pass, 1975)
* The Oscar Peterson Big 6 at Montreux (1975)
* The Tenor Giants (and Zoot Sims and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975)
* And the Bassists – Montreux '77 (and Ray Brown & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1977)
* Jam – Montreux '77 (1977)
* The London Concert (1978)
* The Paris Concert (1978)
* Digital at Montreux (1979)
* Night Child (1979)
* Skol (with Stéphane Grappelli, 1979)

With
The
Trumpet
Kings|

* Roy Eldridge (1974)
* Dizzy Gillespie (1974)
* Jousts (1974)
* Harry Edison (1974)
* Clark Terry (1975)
* Jon Faddis (1975)
* At Montreux '75 (Eldridge, Gillespie & Terry, 1975)
* The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Gillespie, Hubbard & Terry, 1980)
* The Alternate Blues (with Gillespie, Hubbard & Terry, 1980)

1980–2004|

* Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (1980)
* The Personal Touch (1980)
* A Royal Wedding Suite (1981)
* Nigerian Marketplace (1981)
* Face to Face (with Freddie Hubbard, 1982)
* Freedom Song (1982)
* A Tribute to My Friends (1983)
* If You Could See Me Now (1983)
* Jazz at the Philharmonic – Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo 1983: Return to Happiness (multiple groups, 1983)
* Two of the Few (with Milt Jackson, 1983)
* Live! (1986)
* Time After Time (1986)
* Live at the Blue Note (1990)
* Saturday Night at the Blue Note (1991)
* Last Call at the Blue Note (1992)
* Encore at the Blue Note (1993)
* Side by Side (with Itzhak Perlman, 1994)
* The More I See You (1995)
* An Oscar Peterson Christmas (1995)
* A Tribute to Oscar Peterson – Live at the Town Hall (1996)
* Oscar in Paris (1996)
* Meets Roy Hargrove and Ralph Moore (1996)
* Oscar and Benny (with Benny Green, 1998)
* Summer Night in Munich (1998)
* Trail of Dreams: A Canadian Suite (2000)
* A Night in Vienna (2004)

With
Count
Basie

alumni|

* Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1952)
* Basie Jazz (Count Basie, 1952)
* Pres and Sweets (Lester Young and Harry Edison, 1955)
* Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (Harry Edison, 1957)
* Going for Myself (Lester Young & Harry Edison, 1957)
* Jazz Giants '58 (Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan & Harry Edison, 1958)
* Satch and Josh (and Count Basie, 1974)
* Satch and Josh...Again (and Count Basie, 1977)
* Night Rider (and Count Basie, 1978)
* The Timekeepers (and Count Basie, 1978)
* Yessir, That's My Baby (and Count Basie, 1978)
* Oscar Peterson + Harry Edison + Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (1986)

With
Benny
Carter|

* Alone Together (1952)
* Cosmopolite (1952–54)
* Plays Pretty (1954)
* New Jazz Sounds (with Bill Harris & Dizzy Gillespie, 1954)
* Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson (1986)

With
Roy
Eldridge|

* Rockin' Chair (with Roy Eldridge, 1951–52)
* Dale's Wail (Eldridge, 1953)
* Little Jazz (Eldridge, 1954)
* Roy and Diz (Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie, 1954)
* Happy Time (Eldridge, 1974)
* Jazz Maturity...Where It's Coming From (and Gillespie, 1975)
* Roy Eldridge 4 – Montreux '77 (1977)

With
Ella
Fitzgerald|

* At the Opera House (1957)
* Ella and Louis (and Louis Armstrong, 1956)
* Ella and Louis Again (and Louis Armstrong, 1957)
* Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book (1957)
* Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert (1958)
* Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72 (1972)
* Ella and Oscar (1975)

Coleman
Hawkins
and/or Ben
Webster|

* Coleman Hawkins and Confrères (with Roy Eldridge & Webster, 1957)
* Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957)
* The Genius of Coleman Hawkins (1957)
* Soulville (with Webster, 1957)
* Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson (with Webster, 1959)

With
Buddy
Rich|

* The Drum Battle (and Gene Krupa, 1952)
* Sing and Swing (1955)
* The Wailing Buddy Rich (1955)
* Krupa and Rich (1955)

With
others|

* The Astaire Story (Fred Astaire, 1952)
* Buddy DeFranco and Oscar Peterson Play George Gershwin (1954)
* Ellis in Wonderland (Herb Ellis, 1955–56)
* Toni (Toni Harper, 1955–56)
* Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson (1957)
* Anita Sings the Most (Anita O'Day, 1957)
* Only the Blues (Sonny Stitt, 1957)
* Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson at the Opera House (1957)
* Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio (1957)
* This Is Ray Brown (Roy Brown, 1958)
* Sonny Stitt Sits in (1959)
* Bill Henderson with (1963)
* Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (1975)
* The Milt Jackson Big 4 (1975)
* Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 4 – Montreux '77 (1977)
* How Long Has This Been Going On? (Sarah Vaughan, 1978)
* Linger Awhile (Sarah Vaughan, 1978)
* Ain't Misbehavin' (Clark Terry, 1978)
* Ain't But a Few of Us Left (Milt Jackson, 1981)
* Hark (Buddy DeFranco, 1985)
* Some of My Best Friends Are...The Piano Players (Ray Brown, 1994)

Film
soundtracks|

* The Silent Partner (1978)

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