– The Oscar Peterson Trio – live at the 1968 Montreal Jazz Festival – CBC Transcription Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection.
I first ran this concert about ten years ago via another site. At the time the sound quality on the player available to me wasn’t very good, and much of what I had posted there was disappointing as to the sound.
Since then, Past Daily has been re-posting a lot of those earlier concerts and sessions with much improved sound, better graphics – all around a much better tribute to some of the great Artists of the 20th century.
This weekend it’s a concert from the 1968 Montreal Jazz Festival with the legendary Oscar Peterson and his trio, recorded by the Canadian Broadcasting Company and issued briefly as part of their Transcription service. Like most of these recordings issued by radio networks, they always come with the caveat of having to be destroyed after a certain period of time. Sometimes that’s unfortunate, as the masters for these concerts often wind up missing themselves. Or in the case of the Martin Luther King Massey Lectures from 1967, just plain lost.
So even though they ask you to destroy these recordings, forgetfulness has its big rewards and sometimes the saving of a lost legacy. I am not entirely sure this concert has been reissued by the CBC or licensed by a label, but it’s a great concert by a truly phenomenal artist – who is joined here by Sam Jones, bass and Bobby Durham, drums.
Since it’s an “international festival” the announcements are in several languages – but the concert is all there and it’s all history. Enjoy.
