We'll miss you Oscar...
One of the very best. May he rest in peace.
God bless him and his family
Oh... :(
Rest in peace, Oscar.
A great musician. Had the chance to see him in a small club in Seattle many years ago. A great, great show.
He was a swing machine. Top-tier in the history of the genre.
Although I enjoy Jazz, I’m not familiar with Oscar Peterson. Since I don’t intend to remain that way could any FR fans of Oscar’s out there suggest his best one or two disks. I would be especially interested in any recordings with horns. (I love horns, trumpet, sax, trombone, clarinet, anything that makes sound when you blow into it)
Oh how great he was! My favor album - “Munich on a Summer Night”. R.I.P.
We'll miss you Oscar...
A giant among jazz piano players. As a jazz piano
player myself, I was always in awe of his virtuosity
and creativity. To bring it a little more down to
earth, “Man, he was a piano player! “
PING!
God bless him and his family
Indeed.
Sad day :-( One of the greats...
A TRUE legend.
RIP.
I recommend that everyone here pick up or download some tracks from his album with Stan Getz. From the leadoff track (”You Make Me Happy”) through “Bronx Blues,” it very rarely gets better than this...
What a talent. I saw him once in Detroit, Baker’s Keyboard Lounge.
In addition to everything else, he had a very quick wit.
Make some more heavenly music, Mr. Peterson.
(((.)))
I’m not sure if this is worth a ping to you, but please let me know.
Oscar Peterson was born on August 25, 1925 in Montreal, Quebec. All five Peterson children, Fred, Daisy, Charles, Oscar and May, learned to read and write at an early age and were expected to learn musical instruments. Oscar Peterson started his musical studies on the trumpet but, after a bout of tuberculosis, switched to piano at the age of eight. Initially, he was taught by his father, a self-taught pianist, and then by his older sister Daisy, who also taught Oliver Jones and Joe Sealy.
At the age of 12, Mr. Peterson went to study with Lou Hooper and then attended the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréaly´ By the age of 15, Mr. Peterson was studying with classical pianist Paul de Marky who helped develop his piano technique. That same year, Oscar Peterson won an amateur contest sponsored by Ken Soble, a local radio personality on CKAC in Montreal. He began his own radio show, "Fifteen Minutes Piano Rambling". By 1941, he was performing on the weekly radio show "Rhythm Time"on CBM in Montreal and in 1945 was heard regularly on CBC's "Light Up and Listen"and "The Happy Gang".
(Rest in peace)
Toured with Ray Brown did he. We lost Ray Brown a couple years ago. Played string bass like we wish we could. There’s probably tech ability out there like these two, but the feel of the era is history.