PETERSON, Oscar (1925 – 23 Aralık 2007, Toronto)
Kanadalı müzikçi. Önde gelen caz piyanistlerindendir.
Oscar Emanuel Peterson 15 Ağustos 1925’te Montreal’de doğdu. Bir süre Kanadalı bir toplulukla çalıştıktan sonra 1949’da ABD’ye gitti. Aynı yıl Jazz at the Philharmonic adlı topluluğun New York’taki Carnegie Hail konserinde, caz emprezaryosu Norman Granz tarafından dinleyicilere tanıtıldı. 1950’de basçı Ray Brown ve gitarcı Irving Ashby ile birlikte, bu topluluğa bağlı bir üçlü oluşturdu ve 1950’lerde Jazz at the Philharmonic ile birçok turneye katıldı. Üçlünün kadrosu birçok kez değişti. Ashby’nin yerini Barney Kessel, daha sonra da Herb Ellis aldılar. 1950’lerin sonlarında gitarcı Ellis’in ayrılmasıyla, üçlüye davulcu Ed Thigpen katıldı. 1960’ların ortalarında ise Thigpen’in yerini Louis Hayes, Brown’ın yerini de Sam Jones aldı.
Peterson, caz piyanosunun iki büyük öncüsünden, “trompet üslubu” olarak bilinen piyano üslubunun yaratıcısı Earl Hines ile caz piyanosunu kendine özgü üslubuyla geliştiren Art Tatum’dan etkilenmiştir. Swing ve bebop akımlarının etkilerini birleştirerek yepyeni bir çalış tarzı geliştirmiştir. Değişik üsluplarda aynı başarıyı gösterebilen Peterson, enerjik çalış tarzı ve teknik yetkinliği ile caz piyanosunun önde gelen adlarından biri olmuştur.
Peterson, 1950’lerde şarkıcılık da yapmış ve Nat King Cole’a son derece benzeyen sesi ve söyleyiş tarzı ile dikkati çekmiştir.
Diskografisi
- 1945 I Got Rhythm
- 1947 Rockin’ in Rhythm
- 1950 Oscar Peterson At Carnegie Hall
- 1951 Oscar Peterson Plays Cole Porter
- 1952 Lester Young – The President Plays with the Oscar Peterson Trio
- 1952 Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington
- 1954 Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin with Buddy de Franco
- 1956 At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival
- 1957 Anita O’Day – Anita Sings the Most
- 1957 At The Concertgebouw
- 1957 Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson
- 1957 Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio
- 1958 On the Town with the Oscar Peterson Trio
- 1959 A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra
- 1959 Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
- 1959 Oscar Peterson Plays Porgy and Bess
- 1959 Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Song Book
- 1959 Oscar Peterson Plays the Duke Ellington Song Book
- 1959 Oscar Peterson Plays the George Gershwin Song Book
- 1959 Swinging Brass
- 1959 The Jazz Soul of Oscar Peterson
- 1959 Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
- 1961 The Trio Live from Chicago
- 1961 The Sound of the Trio
- 1962 Affinity
- 1962 Bursting Out With The All-Star Big Band
- 1962 Night Train
- 1962 Oscar Peterson Trio with Milt Jackson – Very Tall
- 1962 West Side Story: Oscar Peterson Trio
- 1963 The Oscar Peterson Trio & Nelson Riddle
- 1964 Hymn to Freedom
- 1964 Live in Ljubljana
- 1964 Canadiana Suite
- 1964 Oscar Peterson Trio + One (Clark Terry)
- 1964 We Get Requests
- 1965 Eloquence
- 1965 With Respect to Nat
- 1966 Blues Etude
- 1966 Soul Espanõl
- 1967 Jazz at the Philharmonic – The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World
- 1968 My Favorite Instrument
- 1969 Hello Herbie
- 1969 Motions and Emotions
- 1970 Another Day
- 1970 Oscar Peterson in Paris
- 1970 Oscar Peterson, Milt Jackson – Reunion Blues
- 1970 Tristeza on Piano
- 1970 In Tune (with the The Singers Unlimited)
- 1970 Walking The Line
- 1971 Exclusively for my friends (4 LP box set)
- 1971 Great Connection
- 1972 History Of An Artist Vol. 2
- 1972 Solo
- 1972 The Oscar Peterson Trio in Tokyo
- 1973 Jazz in Paris with Stephane Grapelli Quartet Vol. 1
- 1973 Jazz in Paris with Stephane Grapelli Quartet Vol. 2
- 1973 The Good Life
- 1973 The Trio (Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen)
- 1973 Trio in Chicago
- 1974 Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie
- 1974 Satch and Josh – Count Basie) Encounters Oscar Peterson
- 1975 Montreux ’75
- 1975 Oscar Peterson and Clark Terry
- 1975 Zoot Sims And The Gershwin Brothers
- 1975 Ella and Oscar (with Ella Fitzgerald)
- 1975 at Montreux Jazz Festival
- 1976 Porgy and Bess (with Joe Pass)
- 1977 Oscar Peterson Jam – Montreux ’77
- 1977 Oscar Peterson and the Bassists – Montreux ’77
- 1978 Night Rider (with Count Basie)
- 1978 The Paris Concert
- 1979 Digital At Montreux
- 1980 Live At Northsea Jazz Festival
- 1980 Skol (Stephane Grappelli, Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Mickey Roker)
- 1980 The Trumpet Summit meets Oscar Peterson Big Four
- 1980 at Northsea Festival
- 1981 Ain’t But a Few of Us Left (Milt Jackson, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Grady Tate)
- 1981 Nigerian Marketplace
- 1982 Face to Face with Freddy Hubbard
- 1982 Freedom Song The Oscar Peterson Big 4 in Japan ’82 (Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Martin Drew)
- 1982 Nigerian Marketplace
- 1983 A Tribute to My Friends
- 1983 If You Could See Me Now
- 1984 Easter Suite
- 1986 Benny Carter meets Oscar Peterson
- 1986 Live!
- 1986 Oscar Peterson with Harry Edison& Eddie Cleanhead Vinson
- 1986 Time After Time
- 1990 The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note
- 1990 The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Saturday Night at the Blue Note
- 1990 The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Encore at the Blue Note
- 1990 The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Last Call at the Blue Note
- 1992 Exclusively for My Friends
- 1994 Plays Broadway Jazz Masters 37
- 1994 Side by Side (Oscar Peterson, Itzhak Perlman)
- 1994 Some of My Best Friends Are… …The Piano Players (Ray Brown)
- 1995 An Oscar Peterson Christmas
- 1995 The More I See You (Oscar Peterson, Benny Carter, Clark Terry, Ray Brown)
- 1996 Exclusively for My Friends – The Lost Tapes
- 1996 Live at the Town Hall
- 1996 Meets Roy Hargrove & Ralph Moore
- 1996 Oscar in Paris
- 1998 Oscar and Benny
- 1998 The Very tall Band
- 1999 A Summer Night in Munich
- 1999 My Personal Choice
- 1999 Oscar Peterson Plays the Duke Ellington Song Book (1999) — combined reissue of the 1953 and 1959 Ellington recordings
- 2000 Trail of Dreams: A Canadian Suite A Jazz suite with strings conducted by Michel Legrand
- 2001 Oscar’s Ballads
- 2002 Tenderly
- 2004 A Night in Vienna
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