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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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 Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 9:45 am Post subject: Oscar Peterson is dead |
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I really don't know his music that well at all, though for some reason I have a vague inkling of what it would be like. Possibly extrapolating from the Coffee Mate ads he did on Canadian TV back in the day, and maybe a few other exposures. Anyway, RIP.
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The jazz odyssey is over for Oscar Peterson: the Canadian known globally as one of the most spectacularly talented musicians ever to play jazz piano has died at age 82.
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 9:46 am Post subject: |
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| Excellent pianist. Used to play with Joe Pass. Check this out. |
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Pink Freud
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| Excellent pianist. Used to play with Joe Pass. Check this out. |
Thanks for the link!
In Oscar Peterson's case, "excellent" is damning with faint praise.  Is there a better jazz pianist?
Maybe Bud Powell. Perhaps Art Tatum.
Saw him twice in person. He was not only a genius, but also a gentleman. Time to bust out some old CDs; I know what the soundtrack will be for me today. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Saw him twice in person. |
I envy you for that. |
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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| Excellent pianist. Used to play with Joe Pass. Check this out. |
Sweet. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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Merry Christmas. NPR has noted Peterson's passing.
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December 24, 2007 - Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, who grew up in Montreal and called Canada home for his whole life, has died at the age of 82.
He led the Oscar Peterson Trio for much of the 1950s and collaborated with jazz luminaries such as Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Milt Jackson, Herb Ellis, Louis Armstrong, Stephane Grappelli, Ella Fitzgerald and Clark Terry.
Peterson died of kidney failure at his home Sunday. |
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February 21, 2003 - As a youngster, Oscar Peterson remembers sneaking downstairs while his parents slept to listen to the radio. "[I] put my ear right to the speaker and listen to Duke (Ellington) and (Count) Basie and Artie Shaw," the legendary jazz pianist tells NPR's Bob Edwards in a Morning Edition interview. "The volume would be way, way down low so I wouldn't wake my parents... and I'd be ingesting all this wonderful music."
Peterson says he studied those artists and even played along with their records "so that when I had to play with them in person, I sort of had a bit of a jump on their musical personality."
Peterson, 77, has lived a musician's dream for more than half a century. He's received dozens of awards � including seven Grammys � and several organizations have recognized him with lifetime achievement awards. He's made so many records, either as a leader or a sideman, that he's lost count.
As Edwards reports, Peterson studied classical piano while growing up in Montreal, but was seduced by jazz. After performing with the Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series in the United States, he found himself accompanying many of the artists he first heard as a kid, including Ella Fitzgerald, Lester Young and Dizzy Gillespie.
Peterson was heavily influenced by Art Tatum, whose style combined technical virtuosity with a driving rhythm and nonstop melodic improvisations. Peterson's father, Daniel, introduced his precocious son to a Tatum recording. "I remember saying, 'Hey, that's wild. Who are those guys?'" Peterson says. His father replied that it was one man producing all those sounds. "I didn't believe him for a while," Peterson says.
In his autobiography, A Jazz Odyssey, Peterson says like all his siblings, he started out studying classical music. But he was more interested in playing baseball than piano. His father, a porter for the Canadian Pacific Railway, doled out musical assignments for his children, to be completed when he returned from his trips. Peterson proved to be a quick study. He would spend all week playing baseball and still learn enough piano to impress his father upon his return. Peterson did it by listening to his sister, Daisy, who had practiced diligently.
Peterson made his U.S. debut in 1949 � at Carnegie Hall. Jazz impresario Norman Granz recruited Peterson for his Jazz at the Philharmonic tour, an effort to elevate jazz from smoky bars to concert halls, Edwards reports. The concerts featured the elite of the jazz world, including Ella Fitzgerald.
Peterson also played and recorded with another great female vocalist of the era, Billie Holiday. He recalled one concert that went poorly. Holiday was addicted to drugs, and although she was not high for the first set, she apparently encountered a supplier during intermission. Holiday was to perform "I Only Have Eyes For You," but was "almost paralyzed" at the microphone, Peterson says. "She just stood there. [I] played the intro over, she just stood there. I think we played it four times, then we realized she wasn't well. [It was a] pretty bad night."
Peterson managed to avoid the drug scene that captured so many of his contemporaries.
When invited to join in, Peterson had a standard reply: "I promised my mom I wouldn't get into any of this and if she were ever to hear any of this, it would kill her. And besides that, if I ever get busted down here in the United States, they'll never allow me to cross the border again. And between those two things it sort of got me through a lot of that."
Although slowed by a stroke in the 1990s, Peterson still travels extensively from his home outside Toronto. This summer, he's scheduled to perform concerts in Chicago and on the West Coast. |
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regicide
Joined: 01 Sep 2006
Location: United States
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| Excellent pianist. Used to play with Joe Pass. Check this out. |
Really. What do you know, Gopher? See this is exactly the point I was making a year ago when you knew everything about the Kennedy Assassination with it's crazy bullets "down range".
Do you have five years experience in music school? While I was playing drop the needle and having to identify which composer and which piece in 10 seconds or less, you were sucking your thumb with mama. Yet you know everything about music, political assassinations and all kinds of current events.
You are simply an amazing man, Gopher.
I guess that is why you are here in Asia and on this board.
Try a bigger pond, big man and see how you do. |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:04 am Post subject: |
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My wife has been learning Hymn to Freedom" over the last year. I'll say this~ it ain't easy!!  It's a real complex tune. She's getting it down, though. Yes, Peterson will be missed. One of the greatest Montreal musicians next to Leonard Cohen, IMHO. RIP. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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| regicide wrote: |
| Gopher wrote: |
| Excellent pianist. Used to play with Joe Pass. Check this out. |
Really. What do you know, Gopher? See this is exactly the point I was making a year ago when you knew everything about the Kennedy Assassination with it's crazy bullets "down range".
Do you have five years experience in music school? While I was playing drop the needle and having to identify which composer and which piece in 10 seconds or less, you were sucking your thumb with mama. Yet you know everything about music, political assassinations and all kinds of current events.
You are simply an amazing man, Gopher.
I guess that is why you are here in Asia and on this board.
Try a bigger pond, big man and see how you do. |
This is a rather strange post.  Gopher is not allowed to have an opinion on music? And how do you know if he's never had any musical training? And why is it that only people with 5 years at music school behind them are allowed to write about music?
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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Yes. Really.
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basplar
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Man....that really bummed me out when I heard about that the other day. Truly a sad day in musical history. Oscar Peterson was one of the most important jazz musicians in history, especially being one of the last remaining musicians alive that had played with Bird, Dizzy, Miles and lots of other important cats in the jazz world. The many Oscar Peterson trio albums that I have of him with one of my personal heroes on my instrument, bass, Ray Brown, have been truly inspiring to me in my musical life. Oscar Peterson was heavily influenced by Art Tatum(who was blind), who along with Bud Powell, were probably the most technically amazing jazz pianists to ever live. I saw Oscar Peterson play live once at Blues Alley in Washington D.C. in the late 90's, and this was after his stroke which left him with the full use of only his right hand and VERY LITTLE use of his left hand. Even then, he had managed to adapt and sounded almost as good as he had before his stroke. Check out his albums like "Night Train" and you can hear not only his amazing chops, but the soul of a man that really HAD some soul. Long live jazz!! |
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Mosley
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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I never played in the NHL, therefore I'm not qualified to say Gordie Howe was a great hockey player.
I don't have a Phd in physics. As such, I have no right to say Einstein was a great scientist.
Folks, this is the world according to regicide....  |
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regicide
Joined: 01 Sep 2006
Location: United States
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Mosley wrote: |
I never played in the NHL, therefore I'm not qualified to say Gordie Howe was a great hockey player.
I don't have a Phd in physics. As such, I have no right to say Einstein was a great scientist.
Folks, this is the world according to regicide.... |
I learned this little trick from Manner of Speaking. According to MOS, we can't post photographs because we don't have the degree and training that he does.
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Oh and incidentally, I have an undergraduate degree in Geomorphology, which included courses in airphoto interpretation and remote sensing, and the use of ground-level photographs to interpret landscape features.
Have you had any such professional training? |
And I learned how to be nasty from McGarrett.
Thanks guys. You are good teachers. |
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greedy_bones
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: not quite sure anymore
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Pink Freud wrote: |
| Gopher wrote: |
| Excellent pianist. Used to play with Joe Pass. Check this out. |
Thanks for the link!
In Oscar Peterson's case, "excellent" is damning with faint praise. Is there a better jazz pianist?
Maybe Bud Powell. Perhaps Art Tatum.
Saw him twice in person. He was not only a genius, but also a gentleman. Time to bust out some old CDs; I know what the soundtrack will be for me today. |
I'd have to go with good ol' thelonious monk. http://youtube.com/watch?v=SmhP1RgbrrY |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| regicide wrote: |
| Mosley wrote: |
I never played in the NHL, therefore I'm not qualified to say Gordie Howe was a great hockey player.
I don't have a Phd in physics. As such, I have no right to say Einstein was a great scientist.
Folks, this is the world according to regicide.... |
I learned this little trick from Manner of Speaking. According to MOS, we can't post photographs because we don't have the degree and training that he does.
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Oh and incidentally, I have an undergraduate degree in Geomorphology, which included courses in airphoto interpretation and remote sensing, and the use of ground-level photographs to interpret landscape features.
Have you had any such professional training? |
And I learned how to be nasty from McGarrett.
Thanks guys. You are good teachers. |
But why descend to those levels?
Great clip, BTW, thanks. Oscar will be missed. |
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