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My Favorite Instrument (Exclusively for My Friends, Vol. 4) ()

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My Favorite Instrument (Exclusively for My Friends, Vol. 4) - Oscar Peterson
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  1. Someone to Watch Over Me
  2. Perdido
  3. Body and Soul
  4. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
  5. Bye Bye Blackbird
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  1. Someone to Watch Over Me
  2. Perdido
  3. Body and Soul
  4. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
  5. Bye Bye Blackbird
  6. I Should Care
  7. Lulu's Back in Town
  8. Little Girl Blue
  9. Take the "A" Train
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Oscar Peterson recorded a remarkable amount of albums during his career but, surprisingly, this was his first full record of unaccompanied piano solos. Some observers consider his MPS recordings to be his best (quite a few are collected in the four-CD reissue Exclusively for My Friends, including this one). The solo album features Peterson (freed from the constraints of his trio) stretching out on nine familiar standards and really tearing into a few of them, including "Perdido," "Bye Bye Blackbird," "Lulu's Back in Town," ...

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