Snapshots in History: August 15: Remembering Oscar Peterson
(Credits: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC
Digital Archives); Medium: Television; Program: Take 30; Broadcast Date: March
7, 1979; Guest(s): Oscar Peterson; Host: Harry Brown, Hana Gartner; Duration:
14:03)
(Credits: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC
Digital Archives); Medium: Television; Program:
Portraits [Oscar releaxes at his Ontario cottage]; Broadcast Date: Feb. 16,
1983; Guest(s): Oscar Peterson; Narrator: William Whitehead; Duration: 4:01)
(Credits: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC
Digital Archives); Medium: Radio; Program: 940 on the Dial [Oscar Peterson’s
swinging style]; Broadcast Date: Nov. 22, 1945;
Guest(s): Oscar Peterson; Host: Genevieve Barry; Duration: 8:55)
On August 15 and beyond, take a moment to remember
Canadian jazz great Oscar Peterson
(Born: August 15, 1925 in Montréal,
Québec, Canada; Died: December 23, 2007 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada), the
winner of eight Grammy Awards, and arguably, one of the best jazz pianists of
all time. Peterson enjoyed the respect of fellow jazz musicians such as Count
Basie and Duke Ellington. He counted crooner Frank Sinatra amongst his fans.
Peterson began playing
the trumpet at five years of age but switched to the piano at eight years of age
after a bout of tuberculosis. He established the Oscar Peterson Trio
in 1951 that produced music using the piano, guitar, and bass. Peterson
recorded and performed music in Europe and the United States as well as Canada.
He also authored four volumes of exercises to encourage future jazz pianists. The
onset of arthritis reduced his schedule during the 1980s and he was required to
take time off to recuperate following a stroke in 1993. For his contribution to
music, Peterson also received the International Jazz Hall
of Fame Award, Juno Awards, the Order of Canada, the Order of Arts and Letters
in France, and the Governor General's Performing Arts Award (1992) as well as
honorary degrees from a variety of universities. Consider the following items
for loan from Toronto Public Library collections:
Complete world transcriptions [1952] [sound
disc] / Sounds of Yester Year; Oscar Peterson Trio, 2009. CD. Music. JAZZ OSC.
(Performers: Oscar Peterson
Trio (Oscar Peterson, piano; Barney Kessel, guitar; Ray Brown, bass).
Gold [2 sound discs] / Oscar
Peterson, 2008. CD. Music. JAZZ PET.
(The contents were recorded variously between 1932
and 1994. Disc 2 included music recorded at live performances.)
Oscar
Peterson live in '63, '64 & '65 [DVD] / Reelin’ in the Years
Productions; Oscar Peterson et al., 2008. DVD. Music. Adult Non-Fiction. 786.2165
PET.
(The DVD included performances for the following
television programs: Mørk sang (Sweden, 1963), Swing it Oscar
(Denmark, 1964) and Live in Finland (Finland, 1965).)
Oscar Peterson, 1950-1958 [2 sound discs] /
Oscar Peterson Quartet; Oscar Peterson Trio, 2009. CD. Music. JAZZ PET.
(Disc 1: 1950-1955; Disc 2:
1955-1958.)
Oscar
Peterson the life of a legend [DVD] / Oscar Peterson et al.; View Video,
2010. DVD. Documentary. Adult Non-Fiction. 786.2165 PET OSC.
(Performers: Oscar Peterson, piano ; with the Oscar
Peterson Trio (includes Ray Brown, bass ; Herb Ellis, guitar) and various other
performers.)
Oscar
Peterson music in the key of Oscar. [Deluxe
ed.] [DVD] / Oscar Peterson et al.; View Video, 2004. DVD. Documentary.
Adult Non-Fiction. 786.2165 PET OSC.
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