Written by
Bob Stumpel

November 17
2014


Blues For Big Scotia


'72 LC Tel Aviv'72 TV Cavett'97 LC Montreux'99 LC Miami

Several performances have been issued on DVD (see below).

Remarkably, The Genius never recorded this instrumental in the studio. Manufacturers of electric pianos must have loved him, though, for repeatedly demonstrating all possibilities of their gear in a live setting.

Ray took Oscar Peterson’s composition, and – with his obvious consent – added an intro taken from Nat King Cole’s Sweet Lorraine.

Dick Cavett Show, 1972
With Oscar Peterson, 1976
Leverkusener Jazztage, 1993
Miami, 1999

’72 TV Cavett – Released
’72 LC San Carlos
’72 LC Tel Aviv – Released
’75 TV Midnight NM
’76 TV Peterson
’78 LC Antibes
’93 LC Leverkusen
’93 LC Newport
’96 LC Atlantic City
’94 LC ValleyForge
’94 LC Moscow
’95 LC Tramps – 3x – Streams available
’96 LC Warsaw
’96 LC London
’96 LC Maribor
’96 LC Lugano
’97 LC WolfTrap
’97 LC Saratoga
’97 LC Philly
’97 LC Montreux – Released
’97 TV Melbourne
’98 LC Charlotte NM
’99 LC Miami – Released
’99 LC Rheingau
00 LC Moscow
’00 LC Warsaw
01 LC Waterloo
02 LC NewJersey


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