My Favorite Instrument

My Favorite Instrument
Studio album by Oscar Peterson
Released	1968
Recorded	April, 1968
Studio	Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer Studio, Villingen-Schwenningen, West Germany
Genre	Jazz
Length	40:53
Label	MPS, Verve (reissue)
Producer	Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer
Oscar Peterson chronology
Travelin' On (1968) My Favorite Instrument (1968) Motions and Emotions (1969)
Soul-O! Cover

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

Professional ratings

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

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."^[1] 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".^[2]

1. "Someone to Watch over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:18
2. "Perdido" (Ervin Drake, Hans Jan Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol) – 6:17
3. "Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 4:36
4. "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley) – 5:02
5. "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson) – 4:56
6. "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) – 4:48
7. "Lulu's Back In Town" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 2:10
8. "Little Girl Blue" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 6:07
9. "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 2:39

Performance

• Oscar Peterson – piano

Production

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

• My Favorite Instrument at Discogs (list of releases)