Oscar Peterson

[John Delacour]

At 05:26 -0600 26/12/07, Kent Swafford wrote:

>Oscar Peterson was the greatest. My favorite record of his was a 
>solo piano album from the 70's called "Tracks". If you happen to 
>have iTunes, you can listen to the excerpt from "A Little Jazz 
>Exercise", which still blows me away after 30 years.

...and here's a particularly great clip with the great Niels Pedersen 
on bass, whom we also sadly lost in 2005.

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpWx62Mkl24&feature=related>

My daughter has just suffered an instant conversion to jazz piano 
after hearing me play Oscar Peterson (whom she'd never heard of!!!) 
Fats Waller and Art Tatum.

JD