Night Train

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Cat No: 350284

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Release Date: 06 June 2025

Label: 20th Century Masterworks

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436563186400

Genres: Jazz

Release Date: 18 July 2025

Label: Jazz Wax

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8436542012478

Genres: Jazz

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The complete album + 2 bonus tracks - pressed on limited edition 180g blue coloured vinyl. Contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer Brian Morton.
"It seems incredible to me that anyone as good as Oscar Peterson could still improve", wrote jazz critic Alun Morgan in his review of Night Train in the 1064 April edition of Gramophone. "Yet I doubt if there are many better Peterson LPs than Night Train, which was recorded in Los Angeles during December 1962, and where Oscar and his regular trio even manage to say something new on the subject of 'C Jam Blues', and 'Moten Swing', etc. This is magnificent piano playing, as strong as a bank vault, yet supple enough to swing all of the time."
"This is an extraordinary set. If you haven't bought a Peterson album lately, make this one your choice." - ***** Leonard Feather, DownBeat

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The complete LP + bonus track - limited edition 180g audiophile vinyl pressing. 'Night Train', an album that puts in evidence the perfection of the legendary Oscar Peterson Trio featuring bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen. One of Peterson's most highly rated recordings, it Includes the original version of Oscar's 'Hymn to Freedom', recognized as one of his most significant compositions, written in 1962 and swiftly embraced as the anthem of the Civil Rights Movement.
"Even by the standards of the earlier LPs (Oscar Peterson's) this is an extraordinary set...If you haven't bought a Peterson album lately, make this one your choice. It's the trio's finest hour since the West Side Story set." - ***** Leonard Feather, DownBeat
" The highpoints are the final two selections: Duke Ellington's 'Band Call' and the original version of Oscar's 'Hymn to Freedom'. This album gives one a definitive look at the 1960s Oscar Peterson Trio." - **** 1/2 Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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