Oscar Peterson R.I.P.
 

Another genius shuffles off this mortal coil.:(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7159591.stm

sucks....

Night Train was the first jazz record I got into, and I have yet to give it back to my parents after all these years.

Man...

http://www.badongo.com/file/7026495
vbr .wma files (300 kbps+) 68 MB

Oscar Peterson Trio
Newport Jazz Festival
Newport, RI FM
7/03/59

1 Announcement by Willis Conover (0:39)
2 Jordu (5:27)
3 Daahoud (5:30)
4 Con Alma (7:07)
5 Close Your Eyes (7:08)
6 Woody 'n' You (4:21)

Line-up:
Oscar Peterson - piano
Ray Brown - bass
Ed Thigpen - drums

This is a short set from Newport '59 in excellent quality, especially considering the year.
watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Ht4Rm-qo4
Newport '57 is a more noted show.
http://tralfaz-archives.com/coverart...n_newport.html

ohh man, it sucks; he was a pioneer.

thank you very much for the gig.

Yeah, Canada's two biggest international jazz names are both gone now, Moe Koffman and Oscar Peterson. Who can replace them...?



(By the way, Everyneurotic, Patricia Kennealy disapproved of my mocking and criticism, and set me a 'lovely' MySpace message: "Just leave, pretentious asshole". This, after my mentioning to her that I had purchased two of her novels and her Strange Days bio/autobio! Kennealy may very well be the most repellant personality out there in cyberspace today.)

what did you do? ask if they had wi-fi at her groupie retirement home?

whatever it was, i salute you; she's probably going to blog about how schools and education are screwing kids up and that she dropped out in second grade and it's the reason she's a supergenius opinionated intellectual.