Oscar Peterson
Piano Solo on
Almost Like Being In Love

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Oscar Peterson's piano solo is the second of two solos on this rendition of "Almost Like Being in Love" from The President Plays with the Oscar Peterson Trio. Oscar just plays a short solo on the bridge, taking a quarter-chorus over the AABA form in C at approximately 129 BPM. This brief eight-bar statement provides a fleeting but characteristically brilliant contrast to Young's more expansive one-and-a-half-chorus tenor solo. The concentrated format demonstrates Peterson's remarkable ability to make a meaningful musical impact in even the most compact of spaces, distilling his ideas to their essence.

Oscar Peterson was 26 to 27 years old at the time.