Toni (album)

Toni is a 1956 studio album by Toni Harper, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson trio.[2]

Toni

Studio album by

Released

1956

Recorded

December 29, 1955, January 3, 1956

Length

75:03

Toni Harper chronology

Toni
(1956)

Lady Lonely
(1959)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

"Can't We Be Friends?" (Paul James, Kay Swift) – 3:26
"I Could Write a Book" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:36
"Gone with the Wind" (Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson) – 2:21
"Singin' in the Rain" (Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown) – 2:51
"Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 5:34
"Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Lee Gaines) – 3:22
"A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:02
"You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul) – 2:35
"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Rodgers, Hart) – 4:19
"Little Girl Blue" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:23
"You Took Advantage of Me" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:39
"Like Someone in Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 4:23

Personnel

References

Allmusic review
Toni at AllMusic

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 (1990) Last Call at the Blue Note (1990) Encore at the Blue Note (1990) 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)

With
Count
Basie
or
alumni

Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio (1952)
Basie Jazz (Count Basie, 1952)
Pres and Sweets (Lester Young and Harry Edison, 1955)
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (Harry Edison, 1957)
Going for Myself (Lester Young & Harry Edison, 1957)
Jazz Giants '58 (Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan & Harry Edison, 1958)
Satch and Josh (and Count Basie, 1974)
Satch and Josh...Again (and Count Basie, 1977)
Night Rider (and Count Basie, 1978)
The Timekeepers (and Count Basie, 1978)
Yessir, That's My Baby (and Count Basie, 1978)
Oscar Peterson + Harry Edison + Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (1986)

With
Benny
Carter

Alone Together (1952)
Cosmopolite (1952–54)
Plays Pretty (1954)
New Jazz Sounds (with Bill Harris & Dizzy Gillespie, 1954)
Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson (1986)

With
Roy
Eldridge

Rockin' Chair (with Roy Eldridge, 1951–52)
Dale's Wail (Eldridge, 1953)
Little Jazz (Eldridge, 1954)
Roy and Diz (Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie, 1954)
Happy Time (Eldridge, 1974)
Jazz Maturity...Where It's Coming From (and Gillespie, 1975)
Roy Eldridge 4 – Montreux '77 (1977)

With
Ella
Fitzgerald

At the Opera House (1957)
Ella and Louis (and Louis Armstrong, 1956)
Ella and Louis Again (and Louis Armstrong, 1957)
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book (1957)
Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert (1958)
Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72 (1972)
Ella and Oscar (1975)

Coleman
Hawkins
and/or Ben
Webster

Coleman Hawkins and Confrères (with Roy Eldridge & Webster, 1957)
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1957)
The Genius of Coleman Hawkins (1957)
Soulville (with Webster, 1957)
Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson (with Webster, 1959)

With
Buddy
Rich

The Drum Battle (and Gene Krupa, 1952)
Sing and Swing (1955)
The Wailing Buddy Rich (1955)
Krupa and Rich (1955)

With
others

The Astaire Story (Fred Astaire, 1952)
Buddy DeFranco and Oscar Peterson Play George Gershwin (1954)
Ellis in Wonderland (Herb Ellis, 1955–56)
Toni (Toni Harper, 1955–56)
Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson (1957)
Anita Sings the Most (Anita O'Day, 1957)
Only the Blues (Sonny Stitt, 1957)
Stan Getz and J. J. Johnson at the Opera House (1957)
Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio (1957)
This Is Ray Brown (Roy Brown, 1958)
Sonny Stitt Sits in (1959)
Bill Henderson with (1963)
Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (1975)
The Milt Jackson Big 4 (1975)
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 4 – Montreux '77 (1977)
How Long Has This Been Going On? (Sarah Vaughan, 1978)
Linger Awhile (Sarah Vaughan, 1978)
Ain't Misbehavin' (Clark Terry, 1978)
Ain't But a Few of Us Left (Milt Jackson, 1981)
Hark (Buddy DeFranco, 1985)
Some of My Best Friends Are...The Piano Players (Ray Brown, 1994)

Film
soundtracks

The Silent Partner (1978)

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