My Favorite Instrument

{{Infobox album

| name = My Favorite Instrument

| type = studio

| artist = Oscar Peterson

| cover = oscarfave.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1968

| recorded = April, 1968

| venue =

| studio = Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer Studio, Villingen-Schwenningen, West Germany

| genre = Jazz

| length = 40:53

| label = MPS, Verve (reissue)

| producer = Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer

| prev_title = Girl Talk

| prev_year = 1968

| next_title = Travelin' On

| next_year = 1968

}}

My Favorite Instrument (also released as Soul-O!) is a 1968 album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. It was his first solo piano release.

Reception

{{Album ratings

| rev1 =Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}} {{cite web |first=Scott |last=Yanow |title= My Favorite Instrument > Review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id= mw0000317864 |pure_url=yes}} |publisher=Allmusic |access-date=June 2, 2015}}

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev2score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1153}}

}}

Writing for AllMusic, critic Scott Yanow wrote "A prelude to his outstanding Pablo recordings, My Favorite Instrument is one of Peterson's top albums of the 1960s."

This album was the fourth part of Peterson's Exclusively for My Friends series on MPS.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz included the album in its suggested "Core Collection".

Track listing

Personnel

Performance

Production

  • Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer - music production
  • Gene Lees - liner notes
  • Hans B. Pfitzer - design
  • Sepp Werkmeister - photography

References

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