Released album “Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Tivoli Gardens May 29th. 1965 (Restauración 2023)”.
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Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. As a virtuoso who is considered to be one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, Peterson released more than 200 recordings, won eight Grammy Awards, as well as a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy, and received numerous other awards and honours. He played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career lasting mo…
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entertainment · Canadian jazz pianist (1925–2007) · jazz pianist · bandleader · composer · musicologist · actor · jazz musician · pianist · also Oscar Peterson, Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Peterson
Born 15 August 1925 · Died 23 December 2007 · Q105349
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2023· 2 entries
Released album “Love Ballade”.
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2021· 1 entry
Barry Avrich produced a documentary on Peterson's life titled Oscar Peterson: Black + White that had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2013).
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “Unmistakable (Zenph Re-Performance)”.
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “Standards”.
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2007· 4 entries
Died 2007-12-23.
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Of kidney failure at his home in Mississauga, Ontario
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Released album “Date With Oscar”.
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Released album “Une Anthologie 1952/1956 (Plays Basie And Others / Live!)”.
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “Fly Me to the Moon”.
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Released album “Satch and Josh....Again”.
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Keyboard”.
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Mack the knife”.
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2003· 1 entry
Peterson recorded the DVD A Night in Vienna for Verve with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Ulf Wakenius, and Martin Drew
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “Con Alma”.
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Released album “Oscar's Blues”.
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Released album “The Piano Player”.
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2000· 4 entries
Released album “Trail of Dreams: A Canadian Suite”.
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Released album “Jazz in Paris: Stéphane Grappelli Quartet, Volume 2”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson & Jon Faddis”.
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Released album “Jazz in Paris: Stéphane Grappelli Quartet, Volume 1”.
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1999).
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1998· 4 entries
Released album “Oscar and Benny”.
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Released album “Buddy DeFranco and Oscar Peterson Play George Gershwin”.
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Released album “Satch & Josh... Again”.
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Released album “A Royal Wedding Suite”.
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1997· 3 entries
Won Loyola Medal (1997).
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1997).
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Received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and an International Jazz Hall of Fame Award
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1996· 4 entries
Released album “Two Originals: Walking the Line / Another Day”.
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1996).
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Released album “Bursting Out With the All-Star Big Band! / Swinging Brass”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson Meets Roy Hargrove and Ralph Moore”.
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1995· 5 entries
Released album “1951”.
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Released album “An Oscar Peterson Christmas”.
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Released album “The More I See You”.
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Returned to occasional public performances and recorded for Telarc
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Released album “Jousts”.
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1994· 4 entries
Released album “Porgy and Bess”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson & Clark Terry”.
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Released album “Side by Side”.
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Released album “Fallin' In Love With Oscar”.
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1993· 6 entries
Awarded Glenn Gould Prize (1993).
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Released album “The Timekeepers”.
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A stroke weakened his left side and removed him from work for two years
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Released album “Hallelujah Time!”.
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Released album “Plays Count Basie”.
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Released album “Three Originals, Volume 2”.
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1992· 4 entries
Released album “Oscar Peterson and Roy Eldridge”.
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Released album “Time After Time”.
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Released album “Night Rider”.
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Released album “In the Key of Oscar”.
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the National Order of Quebec (1991).
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1990· 2 entries
Released album “Romance: The Vocal Styling of Oscar Peterson”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance for Live at the Blue Note (1990).
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1987· 3 entries
Released album “Oscar Peterson + Harry Edison + Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie”.
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Released album “Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson”.
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award (1986).
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Released album “Yessir, That's My Baby”.
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate at the Laval University (1985).
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “The Good Life”.
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1983· 2 entries
Released album “Two of the Few”.
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Released album “Blues In Chicago 1955”.
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1982· 3 entries
Released album “Face to Face”.
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Released album “The Personal Touch”.
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Released album “The Alternate Blues”.
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big Four”.
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance for Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings – Jousts (1979).
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1978· 4 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance (1978).
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Awarded Canadian Music Hall of Fame (1978).
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Peterson performed in the interval act for the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 that was broadcast live from the Palais des congrès de Paris
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Released album “Jazz Maturity... Where It's Coming From”.
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1977· 3 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance for The Giants (1977).
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Released album “"The Giants"”.
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Released album “Misty”.
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “Ella and Oscar”.
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1975· 3 entries
Released album ““Satch” and “Josh””.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson & Harry Edison”.
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Released album “Happy Time”.
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album for The Trio (1974).
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Released album “Great Connection”.
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1973· 1 entry
Including the soundtrack for the 1978 thriller The Silent Partner
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “Reunion Blues”.
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “Tracks”.
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1969· 5 entries
Released album “Exclusively for my Friends - Vol. 1: Action”.
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Released album “Motions and Emotions”.
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Released album “Exclusively for my Friends – Vol. VI: Travelin' On”.
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Peterson recorded Motions and Emotions with orchestral arrangements of "Yesterday" and "Eleanor Rigby" by The Beatles
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Released album “Exclusively for my Friends – Vol. V: Mellow Mood”.
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1968· 1 entry
Released album “Exclusively for my Friends - Vol. II: Girl Talk”.
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1967· 1 entry
Released album “Something Warm”.
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1966· 3 entries
Released album “Blues Etude”.
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Released album “Put On a Happy Face”.
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Released album “Soul Español”.
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1965· 1 entry
And were replaced by bassist Sam Jones and drummer Louis Hayes (and later, drummer Bobby Durham)
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1963· 1 entry
Released album “Oscar Peterson & Nelson Riddle”.
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1961· 1 entry
The Peterson trio with Jackson recorded the album Very Tall
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1959· 12 entries
Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays the Duke Ellington Song Book”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays the Irving Berlin Songbook”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays the Jerome Kern Songbook”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays Porgy & Bess”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays the Richard Rodgers Songbook”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays the Jimmy McHugh Song Book”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Song Book”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays the Harry Warren and Vincent Youmans Song Books”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Songbook”.
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Released album “The Jazz Soul of Oscar Peterson”.
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Released album “Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays the George Gershwin Songbook”.
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1958· 1 entry
Hired drummer Ed Thigpen because they felt no guitarist could compare to Ellis
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1957· 3 entries
Released album “An Evening With Oscar Peterson”.
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Released album “Soft Sands”.
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Released album “Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson”.
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1956· 3 entries
Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays Count Basie”.
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Released album “In a Romantic Mood”.
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Released album “Tenderly”.
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1955· 1 entry
Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays Jimmy McHugh”.
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1954· 3 entries
Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays Richard Rodgers”.
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Released album “Recital by Oscar Peterson”.
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Released album “Dale's Wail”.
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1953· 4 entries
Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays Irving Berlin”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington”.
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Released album “Oscar Peterson Plays Cole Porter”.
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1952· 1 entry
Released album “Plays Pretty”.
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1950· 1 entry
Peterson worked in a duo with double bassist Ray Brown
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1949· 1 entry
Introduced Peterson in New York City at a Jazz at the Philharmonic concert at Carnegie Hall
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1940· 1 entry
At fourteen years of age, he won the national music competition organized by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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1925· 2 entries
Born 1925-08-15.
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In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to immigrants from the West Indies (Saint Kitts and Nevis and the British Virgin Islands): his mother, Kathleen, was a domestic worker; his father, Daniel, worked as a porter for Canadian Pac
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