Oscar Peterson Plays “C-Jam Blues”
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A Duke Ellington alumni Barney Bigard, is responsible for coming up with the simple blues riff in C. It was recorded for RCA Victor in 1942 and has since become a jazz standard known and loved by every listener and performer. Ed Thigpen and Ray Brown keep things swinging while Oscar Peterson relays the Ellington inspired piano riff before taking flights of fantasy with his facile reading of this important piece in jazz history. It's a fast driving performance made even more so with Peterson's charging ahead of his band mates before settling back into a quiet repetition of the opening to conclude the performance.
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