20th CENTURY MASTERWORKS COLOURED VINYL SERIES OSCAR PETERSON Plays the COLE PORTER Songbook + 1 BONUS TRACK (180gram BLUE VINYL) Includes 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. PENGUINE GUIDE TO JAZZ OSCAR PETERSON, piano; RAY BROWN, bass; ED THIGPEN, drums. Chicago,1959. Session produced by Norman Granz. *BONUS TRACK: Same personnel. Paris, 1959. Originally issued on the LP A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra.