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Kelly's Blues Peterson Oscar 1992
Oscar Peterson is playing a club concert in 1992 in Toronto. It was in the
Senator Club on Bloor Street West.Together with Oscar were guitarist Herb
Ellis, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Jeff Hamilton
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Goodbye Peterson Oscar 1961?
Having little background on the particular circumstances of this recording
it definitely defines Oscar Peterson's extreme skills superior to
virtually any jazz pianist in the history of jazz.
Oscar's hero was Art Tatum and one can hear a quite a bit of Tatumesque
sounding runs. I have listened to a lot of Tatum's recordings and after a
while his magic runs to me seem to become somewhat repetitive. I don't
feel that way with Oscar's.
This track came from a European collector and seems to be recorded in the
early sixties in Holland. Ray Brown on bass, and I believe Ed Thigpen on
drums.
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Carnival Peterson Oscar 1986
The Oscar Peterson trio performs at the 1986 Bern International Jazz
Festival. Oscar plays his composition "Carnival". In his trio we
see Niels Henning Orsted Pederson on bass and Martin Drew on drums.
Oscar's work has earned him seven Grammy awards over the years and he was
elected to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1978. He also belongs to the
Juno Awards Hall of Fame and the Canadian Jazz and Blues Hall of Fame.
He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1972, and promoted to
Companion, its highest rank, in 1984. He is also a member of the Order of
Ontario, a Chevalier of the National Order of Quebec, and an officer of
the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
He has received the Roy Thomson Award (1987), a Toronto Arts Award for
lifetime achievement (1991), the Governor General's Performing Arts Award
(1992), the Glenn Gould Prize (1993), the award of the International
Society for Performing Artists (1995), the Loyola Medal of Concordia
University (1997), the Praemium Imperiale World Art Award (1999), the
UNESCO Music Prize (2000), and the Toronto Musicians' Association Musician
of the Year award (2001).
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For All We Know Peterson Oscar 1986
Oscar Peterson is joined by vibes player Milt Jackson during the First
Bern International Jazz Festival in 1986. Oscar's trio has Niels Perersen
on bass and Martin Drew on drums.
Milt Jackson (1923 -- 1999) was an American jazz vibraphonist and one of
the most important figures in the hard bop style. A very expressive
player, Jackson differentiated himself from other vibraphonists in his
attention to variations of dynamics and rhythm. He was particularly fond
of the 12-bar blues at slow tempos. He preferred to set the vibraphone's
oscillator to a low 3.3 revolutions per second (as opposed to Lionel
Hampton's speed of 10 revolutions per second) for a more subtle vibrato.
In 1951 Jackson started the Modern Jazz Quartet.
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