Oscar Peterson

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Insert and obi included.

More prime MPS-era Oscar Peterson: Walking The Line, from the German label stretch that many devotees quietly rank as his most purely enjoyable on record - the Verve years have the fame, the MPS years have the sound and the smile. The Villingen studio remains the star supporting player: piano captured with a warmth and dimensionality that was years ahead of its time, every hammer and overtone present, the famous Peterson touch finally documented at its actual resolution. And the touch earns the documentation - orchestral two-handed command deployed with total rhythmic authority, the swing so deep and constant it stops registering as effort and starts feeling like weather.

Japanese MPS pressing, which stacks pressing quality on top of recording quality in the way this catalog deserves. Put it on, pour something appropriate, and let the most reliable pleasure machine in the history of jazz piano do its immaculate work. Resistance was never really an option.