Oscar Peterson

[dusken]

Let the forum know what you think!

[spiral]

haha

I love your two choices.

[loseyourname]

I think I have no idea who he is.

[dusken]

Originally posted by loseyourname I think I have no idea who he is.

BLASPHEMER!

[loseyourname]

Educate me, sexy.

[dusken]

Originally posted by loseyourname Educate me, sexy.

He is a jazz pianist, hot stuff.

[loseyourname]

Ha ha, you said pianist.

If he's good enough for you, then I think he is absolutely fantaaaaastic.

[anileve]

Oscar Peterson rocks!!! Finally a decent question from your gloomy shadow, dusken. Night Train is awesome, although I have to say that I prefer Duke over Oscar, especially his "Caravan" and "In a sentimental mood". I think he's absolutely marvelous daaarling. Sonny Rollins also does a number on "In a Sentimental Mood", and I tell you the feeling I get from listening to it, is like that feeling when someone gently strokes the back of my neck. Oooo La La.

[ardenik]

Originally posted by anileve although I have to say that I prefer Duke over Oscar, especially his "Caravan" and "In a sentimental mood".

Duke Ellington and Oscar Peterson are two musicians you really can't compare..

Duke, although he was a fantastic pianist, was way more successful as one of jazz history's most prolific composers & arrangers & as the leader of his band rather than as a piano player. His compositions like "Caravan", "In a Sentimental Mood", "Cottontail", "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got that Swing)", and sooo many others, had a profound impact on the history of jazz & most of them have become part of standard repertoire.

Oscar Peterson, on the other hand, is one of jazz history's most influential piano players. Very much following in the virtuosic tradition of his pianistic predecessor, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, along with a select few other pianists of his era, such as Bud Powell, really helped in emancipating the role of the piano player in jazz by transfering onto the piano the crazy fast angular melodies of bebop vocabulary created and proliferated by jazz trumpetists and saxophonists of that era like John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, and the creator of modern jazz vocabulary himself (from the 1940s on), Charlie "Yardbird" Parker.

So there you have it Duke Ellington and Oscar Peterson. Two GIANTS in jazz history who cannot be compared with each other. They were simply both GREAT!!

Arden

[anileve]

Originally posted by ardenik Duke Ellington and Oscar Peterson are two musicians you really can't compare..

Well lookie who we have here…a jazz expert. First of all welcome to our humble forum, second of all just by creating this eloquent post you have become one of my favorite people.

I whole-heartedly agree with your view on the comparison of the two artists. However, you must also recall Duke’s solo collaboration with many other jazz musicians. I know I am a bit fixated on the “In a sentimental Mood” piece, but it is probably my most cherished one, well I believe the best version of it is by Duke and Cultrate, the play is so harmonious and complimentary and with no interference of a big band. There are several others where he performs without the big band “effect”. Oscar Peterson is amazing, however there is probably less work that I favor by him as opposed to let’s say Thelonious Monk, whom I simply adore! Especially his sultry and sexy sound in “Round About Midnight”, you just can't resist your emotions from swiveling in a captivating trance of his superb presentation.