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Resonance Big Band: Plays Tribute to Oscar Peterson

Read "Plays Tribute to Oscar Peterson" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
January 4, 2010

Resonance Big Band's Plays Tribute to Oscar Peterson is a true tribute. Here is an artistic offering made in reverential regard to the great pianist, Oscar Peterson. It is something fresh and inviting and eminently deserving of high praise--for George Klabin, who conceived of it, and a magnificent big band that brings the spirit of Peterson to life. Much of this has to do with the wonderful ideas of its arrangers--Bill Cunliffe, Kuno Schmid and Claus Ogerman. There is also ...

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Resonance Big Band: Plays Tribute to Oscar Peterson

Read "Plays Tribute to Oscar Peterson" reviewed by Ken Dryden

by Ken Dryden
June 2, 2009

Oscar Peterson was a jazz giant whose career spanned from the late '40s until not long before his death in late 2007. When Resonance owner George Klabin conceived this big band tribute, he made an unusual choice: Marian Petrescu, a Rumanian native, who had appeared as a sideman on guitarist Andreas Oberg's earlier CD for the label. Klabin heard the Peterson influence in Petrescu's playing and thought it would fit in with the collection of West Coast all-stars, along with ...