Some of My Best Friends Are...The Piano Players

1994 studio album by Ray Brown

Studio album by

Ray Brown

Released

1994

Recorded

November 18, 21, 1994

Genre

Jazz

Length

56:24

Label

Telarc

Producer

Elaine Martone

Ray Brown chronology

Some of My Best Friends Are...The Piano Players
(1994)

Seven Steps to Heaven
(1994)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

Some of My Best Friends Are...The Piano Players is a 1994 album by double bassist Ray Brown, accompanied by pianists Benny Green, Geoffrey Keezer, Ahmad Jamal, Dado Moroni, and Oscar Peterson.^[3]

Track listing

"Bags' Groove" (Milt Jackson) – 4:20
"Love Walked In" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:36
"St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 7:15
"Lover" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:39
"Just a Gigolo" (Irving Caesar, Leonello Casucci, Julius Brammer) – 5:29
"Ray of Light" (Benny Green) – 3:51
"Giant Steps" (John Coltrane) – 6:06
"My Romance" (Hart, Rodgers) – 4:51
"Close Your Eyes" (Bernice Petkere) – 4:40
"St. Tropez" (Oscar Peterson) – 5:10
"How Come You Do Me Like You Do?" (Gene Austin, Roy Bergere) – 6:27

Personnel

Ray Brown – double bass
Benny Green – piano
Ahmad Jamal
Geoff Keezer
Dado Moroni
Oscar Peterson
Lewis Nash – drums

References

^ Allmusic review
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Some of My Best Friends Are...The Piano Players at AllMusic

Ray Brown

Years listed are the years the album was recorded, not released

Albums

Bass Hit! (1956)
This Is Ray Brown (1958)
Jazz Cello (1960)
Ray Brown with the All-Star Big Band (1962)
Much in Common (with Milt Jackson, 1964)
Ray Brown / Milt Jackson (1965)
This One's for Blanton! (with Duke Ellington, 1972)
The Big 3 (with Milt Jackson and Joe Pass, 1975)
Jones-Brown-Smith (with Hank Jones and Jimmie Smith, 1976)
Quadrant (with Joe Pass, Milt Jackson, and Mickey Roker, 1977)
Something for Lester (1977)
Live at the Concord Jazz Festival (1979)
Breakin' Out (with George Shearing and Marvin Smith, 1987)
After Hours (with André Previn and Joe Pass, 1989)
Uptown (with André Previn and Mundell Lowe, 1990)
Old Friends (with André Previn and Mundell Lowe, 1991)
Kiri Sidetracks: The Jazz Album (with André Previn, Mundell Lowe, and Kiri Te Kanawa, 1991)
Don't Get Sassy (1994)
Some of My Best Friends Are...The Piano Players (1994)
SuperBass (1997)
Some of My Best Friends Are...Singers (1998)
Live at Starbucks (2001)

Oscar Peterson

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. Note: All-Star albums feature sideman who are not necessarily listed while titles which include "Oscar Peterson" or the OP Trio are usually shortened.

As
leader
or
co-leader

Plays series	Duke Ellington (1952) George Gershwin (1952) Harold Arlen (1954) Count Basie (1955)
1955–58	In a Romantic Mood (with Russ Garcia, 1955) At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival (1956) At the Concertgebouw (1957) Soft Sands (with Buddy Bregman, 1957) Trio with Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones at Newport (1957) My Fair Lady (1958) On the Town (1958) A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra (1959) The Jazz Soul (1959) Swinging Brass (with Russ Garcia, 1959) Fiorello! (1960)
Plays the Songbook (1959)	Cole Porter Duke Ellington George Gershwin Harold Arlen Jerome Kern Richard Rodgers Porgy & Bess
The London House Sessions (1961)	Put On a Happy Face Something Warm The Sound of the Trio The Trio (Verve)
Trio & Guests	Very Tall (with Milt Jackson, 1961) Affinity (1962) Bursting Out with the All-Star Big Band! (1962) Night Train (1962) West Side Story (1962) And Nelson Riddle (1963) Canadiana Suite (1964) Plays (1964) + One (with Clark Terry, 1964) We Get Requests (1964) Eloquence (1965) I/We Had a Ball (multiple groups, 1965) With Respect to Nat (1965) Blues Etude (1966) Soul Español (1966) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple groups, 1967)
Exclusively for My Friends	Action (1963–64) Girl Talk (1965–68) The Way I Really Play (1967) The Lost Tapes (1967–68) Mellow Mood (1968) My Favorite Instrument (1968) Travelin' On (1968)
1969–79	Hello Herbie (1969) Motions and Emotions (with Claus Ogerman, 1969) Another Day (1970) Tracks (1970) Tristeza on Piano (1970) Walking the Line (1970) Great Connection (1971) In Tune (and The Singers Unlimited, 1971) Reunion Blues (and Milt Jackson, 1971) In Tokyo (1972) Solo (1972) The History of an Artist, Vol. 1 (1972) The History of an Artist, Vol. 2 (1972) The trio (Pablo, 1973) In Russia (1974) The Giants (1974) The Good Life (1974) Oscar Peterson et Joe Pass à Salle Pleyel (1975) Porgy and Bess (and Joe Pass, 1975) The Oscar Peterson Big 6 at Montreux (1975) The Tenor Giants (and Zoot Sims and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975) And the Bassists – Montreux '77 (and Ray Brown & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1977) Jam – Montreux '77 (1977) The London Concert (1978) The Paris Concert (1978) Digital at Montreux (1979) Night Child (1979) Skol (with Stéphane Grappelli, 1979)
With The Trumpet Kings	Roy Eldridge (1974) Dizzy Gillespie (1974) Jousts (1974) Harry Edison (1974) Clark Terry (1975) Jon Faddis (1975) At Montreux '75 (Eldridge, Gillespie & Terry, 1975) The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Gillespie, Hubbard & Terry, 1980) The Alternate Blues (with Gillespie, Hubbard & Terry, 1980)
1980–2004	Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (1980) The Personal Touch (1980) A Royal Wedding Suite (1981) Nigerian Marketplace (1981) Face to Face (with Freddie Hubbard, 1982) Freedom Song (1982) A Tribute to My Friends (1983) If You Could See Me Now (1983) Jazz at the Philharmonic – Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo 1983: Return to Happiness (multiple groups, 1983) Two of the Few (with Milt Jackson, 1983) Live! (1986) Time After Time (1986) Live at the Blue Note (1990) Saturday Night at the Blue Note (1991) Last Call at the Blue Note (1992) Encore at the Blue Note (1993) Side by Side (with Itzhak Perlman, 1994) The More I See You (1995) An Oscar Peterson Christmas (1995) A Tribute to Oscar Peterson – Live at the Town Hall (1996) Oscar in Paris (1996) Meets Roy Hargrove and Ralph Moore (1996) Oscar and Benny (with Benny Green, 1998) Summer Night in Munich (1998) Trail of Dreams: A Canadian Suite (2000) A Night in Vienna (2004)