Oscar Peterson

[Hechler Family]

List,

First of all, I'm late with this reply because I just got of the
hospital from infection of the esophagus.

Now, trying to redeem myself.

I love - most - forms of music especially what I feel is - true - jazz,
blues and boogie-woogie that came from the south from the 20's and 30's -
Earl Hines, Cab Calloway, Ma Rainey, Ruth Etting, Josephine Baker, Isham
Jones, Art Tatum, Lionel Hampton, Frankie Trumbauer, Fats Waller, Ben
Pollack, Ben Selvin, Billy Cotton, Ted Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Bessie
Smith, Bix Beiderbecke, Cow Cow Davenport, Meade Lux Lewis, Jane Green,
and Walter Barnes & His Royal Creolians
-- just to name a few.

Not to mention my beloved artists from my era - the 70's - ELO, STYX,
HEAD EAST,  and the like.

OH, and must not forget about all the ragtime greats

Ready for the flames again ......

Richard Brekne wrote:
> 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 you are about 35 years out of date.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.
>
>


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Duaine Hechler
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