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What's Up?
Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. Squatty Roo (J. Hodges) - 8:17; 02. Salt Peanuts (John Gillespie) - 8:14; 03. Ad Lib Blues (L. Young) - 10:20; 04. If I
Should Lose You (Rodger/Robin) - 7:12; 05. Limehouse Blues (P. Brahman) - 6:51; 06. Soft Winds (Henderson/Alfred) - 7:59; 07. The
More I See You (Gordon/Warren) - 8:40
Oscar Peterson Mourned by Jazz Colleagues
Oscar Peterson's dazzling keyboard technique, commanding sense of swing and mastery of different piano styles could leave even his most accomplished peers awe-struck. His death brought forth tributes from jazz pianists spanning the generations. Peterson died Sunday of kidney failure at his home in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga. 87-year-old Dave Brubeck recalled the first time ...
Jazz Great Oscar Peterson Dies at 82
TORONTO (AP) -- Oscar Peterson, whose flying fingers, hard-driving swing and melodic improvisations made him one of the world's most famous and influential jazz pianists in a career that spanned seven decades, has died. He was 82. Peterson died at his home in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga on Sunday, said Oliver Jones, a family friend ...
Stars Pay Tribute to Jazz Great Peterson
Jazz stars HANK JONES and DIANA KRALL have joined a host of politicians in paying tribute to the late pianist and composer, OSCAR PETERSON. The multiple Grammy winner died of kidney failure at his home in Toronto, Canada, on Monday (24Dec07). He was 82. Peterson was one of jazz's most celebrated musicians, releasing more than 200 ...
Oscar Peterson, Piano Virtuoso
During an illustrious career spanning six decades, jazz piano virtuoso Oscar Peterson played with musicians as diverse as Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker and became one of the most recorded and honored jazz pianists of all time. Peterson, 82, died of kidney failure Sunday at his home in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga. Peterson, a Canadian-born ...
Oscar Peterson's Feel for Rhythm "Drove the Whole Bus," Say Fellow Musicians
The music was so powerful, so propulsively swinging that fellow musicians found it hard to believe Monday that such a force of nature as Oscar Peterson had finally been stilled. “It's hard for me to believe even now," said fellow pianist Hank Jones, a jazz legend in his own right. “I just thought Oscar would be ...
Love Ballade
Featuring the music of Oscar Peterson
Duration: 7:55
Oscar Peterson - Ray Brown - Milt Jackson: What's Up?
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
Jazz At The Philharmonic: Switzerland, 1953
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
The Very Tall Band: Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Milt Jackson: What's Up
by C. Michael Bailey
What's Up is the addendum to Telarc's 1999 release of Live at the Blue Note, cataloging a holiday performance of elder statesmen pianist Oscar Peterson, vibraphonist Milt Jackson, and bassist Ray Brown with the support of relative youngster drummer Karriem Riggins. Recorded on Thanksgiving weekend, 1998 at New York City's Blue Note Club, these performances are ...
