Description
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Artist
Canadian jazz pianist, composer, and band leader.
Born: 15 August 1925 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Died: 23 December 2007 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
He went through a classical piano education before turning to jazz, playing mostly in Canadian night clubs in Toronto and Montreal.
Only after repeated urgings by American colleagues he was persuaded to give a JATP performance at New York's Carnegie Hall in 1949. It was a smashing success. He then worked together with Ray Brown, at first as a duo, before founding in 1952 his first trio which included in succession, the guitarists Irving Ashby, Barney Kessel and Herb Ellis. At the end of the 1950s the guitar was replaced by drums.
Peterson went on many European tours. He has made recordings with just about everybody who's anybody in jazz.
His keys touch corresponds to almost explosive ornamentation in phrasing. Despite all the dynamics, a boundless desire for improvisation, a sublime artistic technique, however, the structure of his play (i.e. the over-all conception of harmonic means, phrasing, rhythms, etc.) remains translucent and tight.
Tracks
1
Blues For Big Scotia
05:56
2
West Coast Blues
04:03
3
Here's That Rainy Day
04:09
4
I Love You
02:38
5
Daahoud
02:57
6
Tricotism
04:16
7
I'm Old Fashioned
04:30
8
Young And Foolish
04:56
9
Manteca
03:59
10
Work Song
05:19
11
It Happened In Monterey
03:08
12
My One And Only Love
03:58
13
Tricotism
03:56
14
Thumbstring
04:43
15
Cannon Bilt
03:36
16
Two For The Blues
04:07
17
Day In, Day Out
02:50
18
Baubles, Bangles And Beads
03:43
19
Work Song (Alt Tk)
05:45
