The 'Boogie' Blues Etude… Oscar Peterson (1974)
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Published 2024-02-28
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pederson, double bass
Barney Kessel, guitar
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London (July 24, 1974)
All Comments (21)
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It didn't matter who Oscar performed with. You always see those musicians looking at him with smiles and admiration. There's a reason for this... he was a music machine, just brilliant.
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this blows my mind to a place it has never ever been to before..
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That's a masterpiece!!! A man delivering his soul to music, through his hands...
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Amazing rhythm changes in the right hand improvisation! And I love when his highly accomplished partners look at each other as if to say, “Wow! Holy crap! That’s mind boggling. I don’t know how anybody does that!”
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Pure genius! And what a great accompaniment too! Doesn’t get better than this.
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Absolute brilliance. Unsurpassed technique. Incredible feel. Grooving like no other. Once in a century talent or maybe two centuries.
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Such an amassing talent and mind. No good words to describe what I just saw. Incredible.
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I actually found myself slack jawed whilst watching this!
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Saw Oscar Peterson with Ray brown and Louie Bellson headline the Berkeley Jazz Festival in 1979. The day was full of top line jazz groups, like Herbie Hancock’s VSOP. Peterson’s trio played for about 90 minutes. By the end his set, I had a vague memory of some groups that had come on earlier … I was in a cloud for two weeks afterward.
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Never has been, nor will there be, anyone that can approach what he could do with boogie.
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This is wonderful. I had the good fortune to see three giants, Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, and Ella Fitzgerald, in a hall not much larger than this one appears to be, back in the ‘80s. What a night.
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While people drool over amazingly-fast internet pianists who play their tunes note for note, Guys like Oscar are forever chased musically but never surpassed. We've seen him do this on ANYTHING hes playing and at moments notice. A true musical genius.
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The best piano player ever, no question! Mozart would be impressed! No joke!
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My only regret is that you can't hear his mumbling. Oscar is just pure energy in this. I don't know who enjoys this more, us or him.
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the man had 5 brains
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My Rushmore of jazz musicians
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God really gave Talent
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Oscar Peterson is the truth
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I really enjoyed this. Thank you for posting it.
