{{Infobox album | name = Very Tall | type = studio | artist = Oscar Peterson with Milt Jackson | cover = verytalloscar.jpg | alt = | released = 1962 | recorded = September 15 (tracks 1 & 6) and September 18 (tracks 2-5), 1961 | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 40:58 | label = Verve V 8429 | producer = Norman Granz | chronology = Oscar Peterson | prev_title = The Sound of the Trio | prev_year = 1961 | next_title = West Side Story | next_year = 1962 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Milt Jackson | type = studio | prev_title = The Modern Jazz Quartet & Orchestra | prev_year = 1961 | title = Very Tall | year = 1962 | next_title = Statements | next_year = 1962 }} }} '''''Very Tall''''' is a 1962 album by the jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and his trio, with the vibraphonist Milt Jackson.
This album marked the first recorded collaboration between Peterson and Jackson; they would later appear together on the albums ''Reunion Blues'' (1971), ''The Milt Jackson Big 4'' (1975), ''Ain't But a Few of Us Left'' (1981), and ''Two of the Few'' (1983).
== Reception == {{Music ratings | rev2 = ''DownBeat'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="DownBeat">April 12, 1962 Vol. 29, No. 8</ref> | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score ={{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic">[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=very-tall-mw0000179189|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]</ref> |rev3 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1153}}</ref> |}} The ''Billboard'' review from January 27, 1962, praised Peterson and Jackson's "great sense of swing" and described the material as "a bit out of the ordinary", before concluding that album was "Strong jazz wax."<ref name="Inc.1962">{{cite magazine |magazine=Billboard |title=Album Reviews: Spotlight Albums of the Week |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QBYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22 |date=27 January 1962 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |pages=22 |issn=0006-2510}}</ref>
''DownBeat'' jazz critic Leonard Feather gave the album four stars in his April 12, 1962, review and stated: "This was an alliance as successful as it was logical. Peterson and Jackson have far more in common musically than their regular contexts might imply."<ref name="DownBeat"/>
Scott Yanow on AllMusic described the pairing of Peterson and Jackson as "so logical that it is surprising it did not occur five years earlier... Fortunately O.P. and Bags would meet up on records many times in the future (particularly during their Pablo years) but this first effort is a particularly strong set."<ref name="Allmusic"/>
==Track listing== #"On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronislaw Kaper, Ned Washington) – 7:32 #"Heartstrings" (Milt Jackson) – 5:43 #"Work Song" (Nat Adderley, Oscar Brown, Jr.) – 7:35 #"John Brown's Body" (Traditional) – 7:49 #"A Wonderful Guy" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 4:57 #"Reunion Blues" (Jackson) – 7:22
==Personnel== *Oscar Peterson – piano *Milt Jackson – vibraphone *Ray Brown – double bass *Ed Thigpen – drums
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