20th CENTURY MASTERWORKS -THE BEST ALBUMS BY THE GREATEST FIGURES IN JAZZ HISTORY! OSCAR PETERSON: PLAYS THE COLE PORTER SONGBOOK + 14 BONUS TRACKS Includes 20-page booklet with new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazzs writer BRIAN MORTON and by Paris prestigious JAZZ MAGAZINE. With Ray Brown on bass and Ed Thigpen on drums, Oscar Peterson reworks Cole Porter and says something original and distinctive. Highlights include Love for Sale, Night and Day, and I Love Paris. (Ron Wynn AllMusic) As with Ella, Porter seems the ideal source for Peterson, an unparalleled alliance of verbal and musical dexterity that constantly challenges the improviser who has to find musical equivalents for those glittering rhymes. The chemistry of this trio gives the impression that behind the sounds there is just one single mind. This is a reference album. Originally released as Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Songbook (Verve Records MG VS-6083). PENGUIN GUIDE TO JAZZ OSCAR PETERSON, piano RAY BROWN, bass ED THIGPEN, drums Chicago, July 21, August 1, 1959. Original session produced by Norman Granz. *BONUS TRACK: Same personnel. Paris, France, May 18, 1959. Originally issued on the LP A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra.