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12-24-2007, 11:49 AM
|  | Musical Anarchist | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sutton, MA | | | Oscar Peterson RIP
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12-24-2007, 11:58 AM
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12-24-2007, 12:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Minnesota | | RIP He played with the big names Ella, Dizzy, Ray Brown etc. Great player. |
12-24-2007, 12:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oak Park, MI | | | Technically the most incredible piano player I ever heard. His rhythm was so good that even his 64th notes sounded quantized. And he was still doing it at 75 and 80 years old, a true genius, who played wit some great bass players. Nils Hemming Omstead Pederson and Ray Brown come to mind.
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12-24-2007, 12:38 PM
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12-24-2007, 12:40 PM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | A great musician, and a really nice guy according to my Dad's buddy Ray Price who played drums in the trio for one album and, I think, a couple of tours back around 1970.
Here's a slightly later recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKKpoCy0a5Y
Lots and lots of chops and still beautifully musical. Great bass work from Brown AND Pedersen, too.
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12-24-2007, 01:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Montreal, Canada | | | one of the great, that's for sure
Very sad news.
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12-24-2007, 01:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | Heard about this on the radio in the car, great loss
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12-24-2007, 01:16 PM
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He lives down the road from me and I've never seen him! He lived in Mississauga.
Terrible news
R.I.P. Oscar. Another Giant gone... |
12-24-2007, 01:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Outside Boston | | RIP, Oscar. |
12-24-2007, 06:03 PM
|  | Friends, Romans, Bass Players... | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Spencer, MA, USA | | My Dad knew him when they were both teenagers, Oscar Peterson being from Verdun, a suburb of Montreal, and my Dad was from the Ville Emard section of Montreal, across the Aqueduct from Verdun. He used to go see him play and he became friends with him. When we were kids Dad used to regale me and my siblings about Peterson's prowess as a jazz pianist. He'll be sorely missed. RIP, Oscar.  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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