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Oscar Peterson Gene Lees

Oscar Peterson By Gene Lees

Oscar Peterson by Gene Lees


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Summary

Based on extensive interviews, Oscar Peterson is a well-informed and provocative exploration of Peterson's music.

Oscar Peterson Summary

Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing by Gene Lees

An engaging biography of a living musical legend, Oscar Peterson. A man Duke Ellington once called the " maharajah of the piano." Gene Lees carefully builds up the portrait of Peterson, his childhood and what it meant to be be black and talented in Montreal in the 1940s, hist three marriages and six children, his musical partners (Ray Brown, Herb Ellis and Ed Thigpen), his musical friends and colleagues (Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Tatum and Lester Young, amongst others) and the critical controversy and mythology that have long surrounded Peterson. This updated version has a new chapter that covers Peterson's appointment as Chancellor of York University; his receipt of ten honorary doctorates and the Order of Canada; his stroke and partial recovery; the origins and fallout of his cancelled North American tour and much more.

Oscar Peterson Reviews

[An] enthusiastic account of a musician's development as the thinking person's pianist. * The New York Times Book Review *
There are five requisites for a readable and valuable book on jazz: enthusiasm, wit, insight, compassion, and technical knowledge of the music. Gene Lees has them all. -- Leonard Feather * Los Angeles Times *
A fine, richly detailed book...that explains the essence of jazz and of jazz playing as well as any written. * The Toronto Sun *

Additional information

GOR005938737
9780815410218
0815410212
Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing by Gene Lees
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.
2000-08-01
352
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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