Oscar Peterson. Looking through his notes in a recording studio, Los Angeles, 1976

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Oscar Peterson looking through his notes in a recording studio, Los Angeles, 1976.

Oscar Peterson (by name Oscar Emmanuel Peterson) was a Canadian virtuoso jazz pianist and composer. He played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, simply "O.P." by his friends, and informally in the jazz community as "the King of inside swing". He gravitated toward boogie-woogie and swing with a particular fondness for Nat King Cole and Teddy Wilson. By the time he was in his 20s, he had developed a reputation as a technically brilliant and melodically inventive pianist.

b. August 15, 1925 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
d. December 23, 2007 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

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