Oscar Peterson

[David Andersen]

Duaine, Duaine. For the love of God, man. Can you spell peer-group  
suicide?

I agree: the most thoughtless and ill-conceived post I've ever seen  
here.

When I say, over and over, that everything is eventually revealed,  
I'm not kidding---give 'em enough rope, and someone this clueless  
will certainly swing and twitch...cut him down and take him away....

I invite y'all to watch this clip with either headphones on or  
through good speakers. You will hear, and see, and feel the majesty  
of a talent beyond genre, beyond stupid titles. What a gift are fine  
musicians, fine artists. What a heartbreaking, shameful pity that one  
of our fraternity not only can't feel it, can't see it, can't hear  
it, but belittles it...drags it in the dirt.

Surreal. Truly.

David Andersen

>> http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Ebo12xg4ws



> Just because you can't find and/or follow the melody doesn't mean  
> there isn't one.  Did you ever think that (from your own words "I  
> really don't play") it might be too abstract for you to find/hear?
> Oscar Peterson was one of the greatest Jazz Pianists ever and this  
> video is a wonderful example of his incredible playing which was  
> not influenced by drugs of any kind.
> To say that you "could probably come up with something like he is  
> doing" is ludicrous and your reference to drugs was more than a  
> little offensive.
> If you really feel that you could "come up with something like he  
> is doing" - How about we give you a year?  Ten years?  A lifetime?   
> 10 lifetimes?
>
> Brooks Weisman RPT
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hechler Family
> To: Pianotech List
> Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 3:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Oscar Peterson
>
> I listened to this all the way through.
>
> I never could get used to this form of jazz because WHERE THE HELL  
> IS THE MELODY ?
>
> I really don't play BUT I could probably come up with something  
> like he is doing!
>
> No offense to anyone who likes this form of jazz but being my  
> teenage years was the 60's and 70's, this sounds like something  
> composed on cocaine or pot.
>
> Tom Driscoll wrote:
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>> Ahhhh----So long Big Man.
>>     Tom D.
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>> http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Ebo12xg4ws
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