Oscar Peterson accompanied a number of leading jazz singers as the house pianist at Norman Granz's Verve label in the '50s. But one of the finest albums he made in this capacity was for a singer who today is largely unknown. The album was Toni: Toni Harper Sings, and it's positively splendid. Half the album was recorded on December 29, 1955—a day after …
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