Oscar Peterson was one of the giants of jazz piano. Fast fingers and a hardwired sense of swing defined Peterson and made him a favorite musical partner for everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Herbie ...
To mark the forthcoming 90th birthday of the towering jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, who died in 2007 at age 82, a new recording will bring to light several of the virtuoso’s previously unheard ...
Reporting from TORONTO — Kelly Peterson, widow of the towering piano virtuoso Oscar Peterson, never imagined she would become a record producer. But for years after her husband’s death, in 2007 at age ...
The Bosendorfer Imperial grand piano in Oscar Peterson's home studio had hardly been played for years after the jazz legend's death in 2007. But the piano has gotten a workout over the past year as ...
Oscar Peterson at the piano? Oscar Peterson was the piano. His touch could be light and feathery, as ethereal as a memory. It could operate with blinding speed, releasing liquid lines that felt like a ...
Oscar Peterson, whose dazzling piano playing made him one of the most popular jazz artists in history, died Sunday night at his home in Mississauga, Ontario, outside Toronto. He was 82. The cause was ...
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 ...