Oscar Peterson
Den Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, gebuer de 15. August 1925 zu Montréal a gestuerwen den 23. Dezember 2007 zu Mississauga, war e kanadeschen Jazz-Pianist.

Den Oscar Peterson huet mat praktesch allen Jazz-Gréissten zesummegespillt: Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Quincy Jones, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Clark Terry, Freddie Hubbard an dem Modern Jazz Quartet. Parallel dozou huet e vun Enn der 1960er Joren un eng Solo-Carrière gemaach.

A sengem Trio hunn ënner anerem de Ray Brown an den Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen gespillt, geleeëntlech och de Gittarist Joe Pass.

Den Oscar Peterson huet sechsmol e Grammy kritt.

Discographie (Auswiel)

1950er 
Oscar Peterson Piano Solos (Mercury 1950), Oscar Peterson At Carnegie Hall (Mercury 1951), The Oscar Peterson Quartet Supervised by Norman Granz (Verve 1952), Oscar Peterson Plays Pretty (Mercury 1952), This Is Oscar Peterson (RCA Victor 1952),JATP Lausanne 1953 Oscar Peterson / Ella Fitzgerald (TCB 2006), Jazz At The Philharmonic, Hartford 1953 (Pablo 1953),Jazz At The Philharmonic hamburg germany feb. 29, 1945 (Fresh Sound Records 2007), Oscar Peterson Plays Pretty No. 2 (Clef 1954), Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio I (Norgran 1954), Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio II (Norgran 1954), At Zardi's 1955 recording (Pablo), An Evening With Oscar Peterson Duo/Quartet (Clef 1956), Oscar Peterson Plays Count Basie (Clef 1956), In A Romantic Mood - Oscar Peterson With Strings (Verve 1956), Pastel Moods By Oscar Peterson (Verve 1956), Romance - The Vocal Styling Of Oscar Peterson (Verve 1956), Soft Sands (Verve 1957), The Oscar Peterson Trio At The Stratford Shakespearean Festival (Verve 1957), Oscar Peterson Trio With Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge And Jo Jo Jones At Newport (Verve 1958), Oscar Peterson Trio At The Concertgebouw (Verve 1958), Oscar Peterson Trio With The Modern Jazz Quartet At The Opera House (Verve 1958), A Night On The Town (Verve 1958), Oscar Peterson Plays My Fair Lady (Verve 1958), Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson (Verve 1959), Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson (Verve 1959), The Jazz And Soul Of Oscar Peterson (Verve 1959), Swinging Brass With The Oscar Peterson Trio (Verve 1959), Coleman Hawkins And His Confreres With The Oscar Peterson Trio (Verve 1959)

1960er 
Plays The Cole Porter Songbook (Verve 1960), Plays Porgy And Bess (Verve 1960), The Oscar Peterson Trio At J.A.T.P. (Verve 1960), The Trio Live From Chicago (Verve 1961), Very Tall (Verve 1962), West Side Story (Verve 1962), Bursting Out With The All Star Big Band! (Verve 1962), The Sound Of The Trio (Verve 1962), Night Train (Verve 1963), Exclusively For My Friends (1964), Canadian Suite (Limelight 1964), We Get Requests (Verve 1965), Eloquence (Limelight 1965), Blues Etude (Limelight 1966), Put On A Happy Face (Verve 1966), Something Warm (Verve 1966), Night Train Volume 2 (Verve 1967), Soul-O! (Prestige 1968), My Favourite Instrument (1968), The Vienna Concert (Philology 1969), Oscar's Oscar Peterson Plays The Academy Awards (Verve 1969), Motions & Emotions (MPS 1969), Hello Herbie (MPS 1969), The Great Oscar Peterson On Prestige (Prestige 1969), Oscar Peterson Plays For Lovers (Prestige 1969)

1970er 
Tristeza On Piano (MPS 1970), Three Originals (MPS 1970), Tracks (1970), In Tune (mit den Singers Unlimited, 1971), Reunion Blues (MPS 1972), Terry's Tune (1974), The Trio (Pablo 1975), The Good Life (Fantasy 1975), with Sonny Stitt Sittin' In (1975), Oscar Peterson And Dizzy Gillespie (Pablo 1975), Oscar Peterson And Roy Eldridge (Pablo 1975), with Ella Fitzgerald Ella And Oscar (Pablo 1975), with Count Basie Satch And Josh (Pablo 1975), with Joe Pass Porgy And Bess (Pablo 1976, At The Montreux Jazz Festival (Pablo 1976), Again (1977), with Basie Yessir, That's My Baby (Pablo 1978), with Basie Night Rider (Pablo 1978), with Basie The Timekeepers (Pablo 1978), Montreux '77 I (Pablo 1978), Montreux '77 II (Pablo 1978), The Paris Concert (Pablo 1979)

1980er 
Skol (Pablo 1980), The Personal Touch (Pablo 1981), Live At The Northsea Jazz Festival (Pablo 1981), Romance (1982), with Stéphane Grappelli, Joe Pass, Mickey Roker, Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen Skol (1982), Carioca (Happy Bird 1983), A Tribute To My Friends (Pablo 1984), Time After Time (Pablo 1984), If You Could See Me Now (Pablo 1984), Live! (Pablo 1987)

1990er 
The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio: Saturday Night At the Blue Note (Telarc 1991), Last Call At The Blue Note (Telarc 1992), The More I See You (Telarc 1995), An Oscar Peterson Christmas (Telarc 1995), Oscar Peterson Meets Roy Hargrove And Ralph Moore With Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen And Lewis Nash (Telarc 1996), The London House Sessions 5-CD box set (Verve 1996), Oscar In Paris: Live At The Salle Pleyel (Telarc 1997), with various artists A Tribute To Oscar Peterson: Live At The Town Hall (Telarc 1997), The Trio (Verve 1998), Live At CBC Studios, 1960 (Just A Memory 1998), with Benny Green Oscar And Benny (Telarc 1998), Oscar In Paris (Telarc 1998), with Milt Jackson, Ray Brown The Very Tall Band Live At The Blue Note (Telarc 1999), A Summer Night In Munich (Telarc 1999)

2000er 
Trail Of Dreams: A Canadian Suite (Telarc 2001), Oscar's Ballads (Telarc 2001), A night in Vienna, Verve 2003

Literatur 
 Meine Jazz-Odyssee. Die Autobiografie von Oscar Peterson mit Richard Palmer, Hannibal Verlag 2003, ISBN 978-3-85445-234-8

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 Offiziell Websäit
 Biographie an Discographie bei JazzEcho
 Detailléiert Discographie vum Oscar Peterson

Jazzpianisten
Kanadesch Museker
Gebuer 1925
Gestuerwen 2007
Grammy-Gewënner
Officier des Arts et des Lettres