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Title: PETERSON PLAYS THE CLAVICHORD (PETERSON SUONA LA SPINETTA)
Review: First : Oscar Peterson plays the clavichord - not piano - and Joe Pass the acoustic guitar.Second : if you know the first thing, we can say this is an excellent disc, because the songs are wonderful and the musician are formidable.Obviously the sounds are very different than our habits: just the first track, "Summertime", can give you a turn.Later, slowly, we can understand that Peterson, when wanted to play the clavichord for this recording (in 1976), was not crazy, naturally: the songs from "Porgy and Bess" are some of the most performed standards, another version was needless, if he cannot try something new.And some pieces are very good, with these instruments: play "It ain't necessarily so", for example, "I got Plenty o'nuttin" , "There is a boat...".Joe Pass is very good to maintain the romantic tone of music, even if the metallic sound of the clavichord, and his performance is really magnificent.
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