Oscar Peterson - A Time For Love: The Oscar Peterson Quartet - Live In Helsinki 1987 - 3 x Vinyl LPs

2023

Michael Fremer Rated 9/10 Music, 9/10 Sonics!

In 1987, Oscar Peterson led his quartet — featuring Joe Pass, Dave Young and Martin Drew — through the final engagement of their 14-concert European fall tour at Helsinki's famed Kulttuuritalo. A Time for Love captures Peterson's desire to focus on performing original compositions alongside timeless classics at the pinnacle of the group's creative stride.

Oscar Peterson was an 8x Grammy® Award-winner whose other accolades included a Lifetime Achievement Award, Officer in the Order of Canada, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), BBC Radio Lifetime Achievement Award, National Order of Quebec, and a statue unveiled in Ottawa by Queen Elizabeth II (2010).

Nicknamed the "Maharaja (great ruler) of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, Peterson performed with Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, Sarah Vaughan, and Freddie Hubbard, among other jazz legends, throughout his lifetime.