Video: The Legendary Mind-Blowing Oscar Peterson Improvised Ballad at the 1979 North Sea Jazz Festival

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I heard about this performance through the musicians’ grapevine long ago, but this is the first high quality recording I know of. It really is stunning, and it’s definitely not “The Shadow of Your Smile.”

It sounds like a varied ‘The Shadow of Your Smile’ to me, kind of a ‘fantasie’ -version, but honestly i don’t know what is this track. Maybe one of his own melody he just took out of his pocket.

Guys, do you have any idea what he is playing?
The Shadow of Your Smile? Maybe, but in the end it doesn’t matter, because it is simply great, one of my favourite.

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