West Side Story is a 1962 studio album by Oscar Peterson and his trio. The album features jazz interpretations of seven songs from the film West Side Story.

Review by Ken Dryden

..rather than woodshed on the selections prior to entering the studio, the Oscar Peterson Trio spontaneously created impressions of the musical's themes on the spot. "Something's Coming" seems like a series of vignettes, constantly shifting its mood, as if moving from one scene to the next. Ray Brown plays arco bass behind Peterson in the lovely "Somewhere," while the feeling to "Jet Song" is very hip in the trio's hands. The snappy interplay between the musicians in the brisk setting of "Tonight" turns it into a swinger. "Maria" initially has a light, dreamy quality, though it evolves into a solid groove...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGb2wuT1p9o&list=RDLGb2wuT1p9o&start_radio=1

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Canadiana Suite is a 1965 album by Oscar Peterson.

Peterson envisioned Canadiana Suite as a tribute to the diverse landscapes of Canada, drawing inspiration from his travels by rail across southern Canada. Beginning in the Maritime provinces with "Ballad to the East", the suite travels west through the Laurentian Mountains of southern Quebec in "Laurentide Waltz", then pays a visit to the neighbourhood in Montreal where Peterson grew up, Place St. Henri, in the song of the same name. Next, the suite moves on to Canada's next great metropolis, Toronto, in "Hogtown Blues", before heading to the great plains of Manitoba ("Blues of the Prairies") and Saskatchewan ("Wheatland"). Finally, Peterson takes us through Calgary in "March Past", and on into the Rocky Mountains with "Land of the Misty Giants"... - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyvfw_fTxIw&list=PLyqAz2idXOaUfQNLBekveUW0ZqdrTWjOc&index=1

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The Trio (alternatively titled The Trio: Live From Chicago) is a 1961 live album by the Oscar Peterson Trio, recorded at the London House jazz club in Chicago, during a period in which the pianist "was generally in peak form."[2]

Three other Oscar Peterson Trio albums were also released featuring music from the London House concerts: The Sound of the Trio, Something Warm and Put On a Happy Face. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUj139N6-mc&list=PLfJndz0utgOOlCupnCWFup0wkfVmG3BXt&index=5

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Oscar Peterson Trio + One is a 1964 album by Oscar Peterson, featuring Clark Terry

Oscar Peterson Trio + One Review by Stephen Cook

Some guest soloists get overshadowed by Oscar Peterson's technical prowess, while others meet him halfway with fireworks of their own; trumpeter Clark Terry lands in the latter camp on this fine 1964 session. With drummer Ed Thigpen and bassist Ray Brown providing solid support, the two soloists come off as intimate friends over the course of the album's ten ballad and blues numbers. And while Peterson shows myriad moods, from Ellington's impressionism on slow cuts like "They Didn't Believe Me" to fleet, single-line madness on his own "Squeaky's Blues," Terry goes in for blues and the blowzy on originals like "Mumbles" and "Incoherent Blues"; the trumpeter even airs out some of his singularly rambling and wonderful scat singing in the process...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTWenY_4-fg&list=OLAK5uy_l5_1GGKck8iKZGxZ3B_MeV7OzNbEbbTbw

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The Trio (alternatively titled The Trio: Live From Chicago) is a 1961 live album by the Oscar Peterson Trio, recorded at the London House jazz club in Chicago, during a period in which the pianist "was generally in peak form."

Three other Oscar Peterson Trio albums were also released featuring music from the London House concerts: The Sound of the Trio, Something Warm and Put On a Happy Face. The complete sessions were released in 1996 as The London House Sessions. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z95mRVKO3QA&list=PLfJndz0utgOOlCupnCWFup0wkfVmG3BXt&index=3

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We Get Requests is an album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio, released in 1964 and recorded at RCA Studios New York City - Wikipedia

I am sure the Oscar Peterson trio did get requests. Here this ever dependable combo plays the beautiful Antonio Carlos Jobim tune Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnXOo1yM5MA&list=PLa1rC97wRkZjkLnoy0Qen9LfF9inEZCWL&index=1

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