After a 15-year musical partnership, Brown was ready to settle in California for awhile, and Thigpen moved to Denmark. Toward the end of 1965, the trio disbanded. Ed Thigpen and Brown made up the second remarkable Peterson trio which, again, lasted for six years. Tired of the road, Ellis left after six years, and Peterson, feeling that the guitarist was irreplaceable, decided to hire a drummer. They toured and recorded extensively under Granz who would be Peterson’s manager for over 30 years. The first of the famous Peterson trios was comprised of bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Herb Ellis. By the late ‘50s his was the highest paid jazz trio in the world, according to Gene Lees, author of Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing. The following year Peterson won the Down Beat reader’s poll, the first of several wins through 1967. His big break came when Norman Granz presented him at the 1949 Jazz at the Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall.
Born into a musical family in Montreal, Canada, on August 15, 1925, the fourth of five children, he left high school to become a professional musician with the admonition by his father “.not to be another piano player, but to be the best.” Peterson enjoyed a long and successful career, winning many prestigious, international awards, including a concert hall named for him in his home town. Jazz critic Whitney Balliet once said in reviewing a live performance, “The ‘virtuoso’ sign flashed incessantly.” The word “virtuoso” can sometimes be bandied about too freely, but in the case of pianist Oscar Peterson, it is perfectly descriptive yet it’s been a source of criticism. Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Songbook Oscar Peterson Plays The George Gershwin Songbook Stan Getz & The Oscar Peterson Trio: The Silver Collection Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note Oscar Peterson With Joe Pass and Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen The Oscar Peterson Trio at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
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The latest update on McGill College Avenue's upgrade will therefore be welcome news for the many Oscar Peterson fans who have been waiting for the city to make a move.Īnnouncement of this change will be made officially by Valerie Plante in a press conference tomorrow.The Very Best of Oscar Peterson: Piano Artist Transcriptions Just a few months later, the Ensemble Montréal party, the city's official opposition, tabled an unsuccessful motion suggesting that the Place des Festivals be named for the musician. In August 2020, a petition to rename the Lionel-Groulx metro station after Oscar Peterson reached its 25,000 signature goal, but to no avail. Kelly Peterson, wife of Oscar Peterson, stands next to an artist's impression of a plaza to be named in honour of the late jazz musician Oscar Peterson during an announcement in Montreal, Tuesday, August 31, 2021. He has been immortalized in numerous Montreal institutions and monuments, including Concordia University's Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, but there has long been talk of cementing his legacy through Montreal's official channels. Oscar Peterson was a world-renowned jazz pianist from Montreal who passed away from kidney failure in 2007. McGill College, an iconic Montreal boulevard, is getting a major makeover which includes a "mini forest" landscaping job and, evidently, a new name - or at least partially so. City Hall has finally settled on a way to honour Montreal's late jazz great Oscar Peterson.ĬTV News Montreal has learned that part of the newly overhauled McGill College Avenue will be named for the famed musician.