Review of Night Train

This is one of those jazz albums that, if your a fan of jazz, would have to be living under a rock not to have heard it. It was Oscar Peterson's most succesful album and helped push his trio to even higher popularity than it already was, after his time when he was on tour with the JATP with Norman Granz. The trio featured Ray Brown on bass and Ed Thigpen on drums and thiers was one of the tightest trio's at the time. The album is pretty much filled with classic smooth and bebop jazz tracks that all transfer very well from one to the next making it a well produced album as well (which of course was done by Norman Granz). There's something so striking about the cover art as well with this big ominous metal train speeding down the tracks. A great album to have on vinyl if you can get as the bonus tracks on the CD don't offer a whole lot more except the usual retakes and versions.