 | Oscar Peterson Plays The George Gershwin Songbook by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.72 For someone who started piano lessons at an early age, he was classically trained, but his first love was jazz piano.
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 | Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Songbook by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.66 He rose to fame by his own merits - his adeptness at the ivories, his creativity in improvising, his love for beautiful music, and his dedication to his craft.
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 | Exclusively for My Friends, Vol. 4: My Favorite Instrument by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.40 "I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known." ~ Quote from Gene Lees ~
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 | We Get Requests by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $6.21 "Oscar Peterson is my favorite all-around pianist. There are pianists I like because of one thing and pianists I like because of another. But overall, I like Oscar Peterson best." ~ Quote from Carmen McRae ~
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 | The Oscar Peterson Trio at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival by Oscar Peterson Trio
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.64 Oscar Petersons first piano teacher was his sister, Daisy, whom he described as a great pianist. He composed a beautiful tune in honor of his sister entitled Daisys Dream, the CDs finale.
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 | A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.43 "Oscar Peterson is the world's definitive pianist . . . he is the Joe Louis of the piano." ~ Quote from Herb Ellis ~
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 | Encore at the Blue Note by Oscar Peterson Trio
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $1.99 Astrology buffs will not be surprised to learn that he is a Leo. Elegantly articulate, stubborn as hell, thoughtful, gentle, capable of enormous anger that he almost always controls and great laughter that he doesn't, and more easily hurt than he will admit. ~ Quote from Gene Lees ~
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 | Oscar Peterson Christmas by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $12.98 "Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today." ~ Quote from Herbie Hancock ~
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 | Stan Getz & The Oscar Peterson Trio: The Silver Collection by Stan Getz
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.49 Oscar Peterson received eight Grammy Awards in the span of twenty-three years from 1974 through 1997. He received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" in 1997 - the much coveted and ultimate award that can be given to any remarkable musician.
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 | The Song Is You: Best of the Verve Songbooks by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $22.98 / Used from: $4.99 "Peterson is surely the most articulate, all-consuming pianist since the late great Art Tatum, his undisputed idol. He is an artist not to be underestimated or missed." ~ Quote from Benny Green ~
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 | Jazz 'Round Midnight: Piano by Various Artists
Buy used from: $5.14 "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" ... One of the best musical moments in my entire listening adventure. Ive been searching for other Oscar Peterson albums that carry this tune, but my search has been futile so far.
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 | Compact Jazz: Oscar Peterson by Oscar Peterson
Buy used from: $0.78 He received eight "Hall of Fame" awards between 1978 and 2001, and the prestigious "Glenn Gould Prize for Excellence in Jazz" for the year 1993.
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 | Ella and Oscar (20 Bit Mastering) by Ella Fitzgerald with Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.39 "It makes you want to sing." ~ Quote from Ella Fitzgerald on Oscar Peterson's piano work.
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 | Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio by Sonny Stitt with Oscar Peterson Trio
Buy used from: $76.05 In his entire musical career, he used five top-of-the-line brands of piano: Bosendorfer, Yamaha, Steinway & Sons, Baldwin and Bechstein.
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 | Verve Jazz Masters 37 Oscar Peterson Plays Broadway by Oscar Peterson
Buy used from: $3.52 He was one of the most amazing musicians I've ever heard in my life. I don't think there's ever been a pianist in jazz of the later generation who wasn't influenced by him." ~ Quote from Gene Lees ~
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 | A 75th Birthday Celebration by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $24.98 / Used from: $8.44 "I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument, capable of expressing every possible musical idea. I have no one style. I play as I feel." ~ Quote from Oscar Peterson ~
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 | Silver Collection by Oscar Peterson
Buy used from: $2.80 "The piano is like an extension of his own physical being. I'm amazed at the speed of his creativity...If we listen very carefully, we'll hear such sweet thunder rolling across the sky". ~ Quote from Phil Nimmons ~
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 | Plays the Harold Arlen Song Book by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.37 "You saw the greatness immediately. He was awesome right away always." ~ Quote from Herb Ellis ~
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 | Side by Side by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $1.12 "There's an extreme joy I get in playing that I've never been able to explain. I can only transmit it through the playing; I can't put it into words." ~ Quote from Oscar Peterson ~
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 | 1951 by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.18 He is best heard in the quiet hours after midnight, when the dinner crowd has long since gone home and only those who really care about music linger. He becomes a notably different musician under these conditions, by turns tender, subtle, gracefully witty, lyrical." ~ Quote from Gene Lees ~
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 | Jazz in Paris: Oscar Peterson-Stephane Grappelli Quartet, Vol. 1 by Oscar Peterson & Stephane Grappelli Quartet
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.93 On August 15, 2005, Oscar Peterson became the first living legend and jazz icon to be honored with a Commemorative Stamp issued by Canada Post to coincide with his 80th birthday.
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 | Marian Mcpartland's Piano Jazz by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.12 "One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous." ~ Quote from Marian McPartland ~
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 | Tristeza on Piano by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.57 "It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff." ~ Quote from Shirley Horn ~
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 | Tribute by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $1.37 "Oscar Peterson is head and shoulders above any pianists alive today. He is the apex. He's the crowning ruler of all the pianists in the jazz world." ~ Quote from Hank Jones ~
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 | A Jazz Odyssey by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $0.78 He was the worlds greatest pianist
a man who played the piano so well that you could hear it sing and dance. ~ Quote from Stevie Wonder ~
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 | Oscar Peterson Plays the Duke Ellington Song Book by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $9.61 Oscar Peterson is a man who is blessed with great talent, has acquired tremendous skill and executes it with unlimited authority." ~ Quote from Duke Ellington ~
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 | With Respect to Nat by Oscar Peterson Trio
Buy used from: $7.12 He was the recipient of sixteen "Honorary Degrees" conferred by various universities in North America from 1973 through 1999.
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 | ...Last Call at The Blue Note by Oscar Peterson Trio
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $1.50 "Oscar Peterson means to me
jazz, greatness, beautiful." ~ Quote from Clark Terry ~
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 | Lester Young with Oscar Peterson Trio
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.50 "I don't call many people geniuses but Oscar Peterson was definitely one. He embodied genius because genius involves sensation, feeling, believing, attachment and knowledge." ~ Quote from Quincy Jones ~
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 | Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson (20-Bit Master) by Ben Webster With Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.93 "When I sit down to the piano, I don't want any scuffling. I want it to be a love affair." ~ Quote from Oscar Peterson ~
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 | Canadiana Suite by Oscar Peterson Trio
Buy used from: $63.09 I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos. ~ Quote from Oscar Peterson ~
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 | Night Train by Oscar Peterson Trio
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.89 "Gene Lees once interviewed seventy pianists on the subject of jazz piano, and Oscar was among the close winners in the categories of personal favorite and best pianist." ~ Quote from Donald Elfman ~
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 | Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $1.98 "You're somebody that they just can't ignore. Not only jazz players pay you tribute, but classical players, too." ~ Quote from Duke Ellington to Oscar Peterson ~
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