My Favorite Instrument

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

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
Girl Talk (1968) My Favorite Instrument (1968) Travelin' On (1968)

Reception

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]

Track listing

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

Personnel

Performance

• Oscar Peterson – piano

Production

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