Oscar Peterson

[Richard Brekne]

Duaine:

Holy Christmas guy.... If you think Petersons playing is a bit wild... 
you are about 35 years out of date.  Your post is comparable to saying 
something like Monet's paintings are impossible to understand... I mean 
really... so much has gone by since then.   When you top it off by 
dumping on one of the worlds greatest musical talents ever by 
insinuating drug use... you disgrace yourself.

About the only even close to valid criticism I ever heard about O.P. 's  
playing what that it was too much <<lick>> based.  Indeed... he did use 
a lot of so practiced in licks in his playing that movement from one to 
the other would be seamless... but anyone listening closely to his 
playing would be foolish indeed to say he was incapable of "Bop".  His 
trio with Nils Henning Ørsted Peterson and  Joe Pass remains to this day 
as some of the finest Jazz regardless of period ever performed.  For 
that matter some of the finest music period.

I wouldnt go so far in condemning your post as some.... nor ask you to 
leave the list.   Tho... if I were you I'd drop back, punt... and 
perhaps humble yourself.  You have stated nothing at all of worth about 
Oscar Peterson... and revealed quite a bit about yourself here...

Sigh...

RicB



    From:  Duaine Hechler

     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.