Oscar Peterson Trio [AC] Night Train (Verve Acoustic Sounds) Verve vinyl record Direct From Factory

1963 Classic Jazz LP – Rpressed on Gatefold 180 gram vinyl LP – Celebrating its 60th anniversary, this release presents the complete original album Night Train, one of the many masterpieces recorded by the classic Oscar Peterson Trio with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen. Featuring a number of Duke Ellington compositions, this LP also includes the earliest version of Peterson’s anthemic “Hymn to Freedom.”
Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.
Here’s a classic from The Oscar Peterson Trio – a coll-headed slice of traditional jazz from 1963 which is enjoying its 60th anniversary as the clock ticks over to 2023. It’s an understated masterpiece, made up short performances written with commercial radio broadcast in mind, but even within tight time frames Peterson creates subtle, elegant movement which has rendered this record an enduring influence on successive generations of jazz musicians. Repressed on heavyweight wax and presented in a gatefold sleeve, it’s sure to inspire a new wave of jazz artists as it gets a fresh airing.