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Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Sessions of the Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)

by Michael Steinman
July 25, 2009

Oscar Peterson The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953) Mosaic Records 2008

The late Oscar Peterson was technically dazzling, harmonically sophisticated and indefatigably rhythmic. His virtuosic command of the piano has never been questioned. Because of Norman Granz' enthusiasm for his work, Peterson recorded prolifically as soloist and sideman as well as the leader of his own trio. Patterned after Nat Cole's trio, this group featured bassist Ray ...

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Film Review

Jazz Icons Series 3: Oscar Peterson Live '63, '64 and '65

by C. Michael Bailey
November 4, 2008

Oscar Peterson Jazz Icons Series 3: Live '63, '64 and '65 Jazz Icons 2008

Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) had but one peer on jazz piano, and that was Art Tatum. While greatly influenced by Tatum, Peterson nevertheless developed into the superior blues player of the two. A veteran of Norman Granz's Jazz At The Philharmonic concerts before the end of the '50s, Peterson would evolve through the 1950s to lead ...

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Album Review

Oscar Peterson: Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)

Read "Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)" reviewed by Samuel Chell

by Samuel Chell
October 27, 2008

How do you criticize pianist Oscar Peterson? The two primary meanings of such a question expose the divide among those who must confront his talent--and, like it or not, no musician or supporter of the music can duck the issues raised by the most prolifically recorded pianist in jazz history. To the one camp, Peterson's playing represents a sort of gold standard and is therefore beyond criticism; to the other side, his inarguable virtuosity and flawless technique reduce him to ...

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Oscar Peterson: Date with Oscar

by Tom Greenland
March 20, 2008

Oscar PetersonDate with OscarMembran Records2008 Alongside of the sad news of jazz piano legend Oscar Peterson's passing comes Date With Oscar, a ten-disc retrospective of his activities from 1950-56, a period of artistic flowering and prodigious productivity. Date is an uneven set, chock-full of gems, both lesser- and well-known, yet also containing expendable tracks, inexplicable duplications, and a goodly number of cuts in which Peterson is little more than a supportive ...

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Oscar Peterson Tribute: Simply The Best

by Mark Sabbatini
January 17, 2008

Hearing Oscar Peterson late in life, his left hand rendered useless by a stroke and arthritis, could be a terribly sad thing, sometimes no more than a whisper of the giant that had me scouring CD bins after first listening to him.But his magnetism was never just about music, as his fellow Canadians and several jazz legends made clear during a tribute in Toronto shortly after his death.The two-hour “Oscar Peterson Tribute - Simply The Best" ...

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Oscar Peterson - Ray Brown - Milt Jackson: What's Up?

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 8, 2007

Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson e Ray Brown Jr.: tre grandi protagonisti del jazz moderno, riuniti in una superba esibizione concertistica del ’98 al Blue Note di New York. Li supportava, con un drumming discreto e misurato, il batterista Karriem Riggins, completando così una formazione stellare che vola sulle ali dello swing. Sono sette gli standard interpretati con souplesse ed invidiabile carica di blues feeling. Un percorso condotto in maniera ineccepibile sul piano esecutivo, che dal vivo acquista un impatto coinvolgente, ...

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Jazz At The Philharmonic: Switzerland, 1953

by C. Michael Bailey
April 26, 2007

Before the star-studded jam sessions of the 1970s Montreux Jazz Festivals there were the pioneering Jazz At The Philharmonic (JATP) road shows, which toured from 1946 into the 1960s and put onstage together many of the greatest mainstream and modern stars of their times. Both Montreux and JATP were the brainchildren of Norman Granz, the jazz enthusiast and music business impresario also responsible for founding the prolific Clef, Norgram, Down Home, Verve and Pablo labels. The two discs considered here ...