Episode15 Jazz

1. Dexter Gordon – Junior, Affinity
2. Wayne Shorter – Pug nose, Vee Jay
3. Charles Mingus – Wednesday night prayer meeting, Peerless
4. Sonny Rollins -Bluenote, Blue Note
5. Tad Damerson with John Coltrane – Romas, Prestige
6. the Cedar Walton / Hank Mobley Quintet – Breakthrough, Muse Records
7. Coleman Hawkins  & the Trumpet Kings – Embraceable you, Emarcy Records
8. Duke Ellington and his Orchestra ft. Mahalia Jackson – Part 1 , Cbs
9. Art Tatum – Song of the vagabonds, Black Lion
10. Lester Young – Sweet Georgia brown, Musidisc
11. Benny Carter – In a mellow tone, Pablo
12. Oscar Peterson – Spinning wheel, Pablo

Episode14 Jazz

1. Kenny Burrell – Tin tin deo, Concord Jazz
2. the Barry Harris Trio with Ron Carter and Leroy Williams – Dexterity, Prestige
3. Hank Mobley with Kenny Clarke – Doug’s minor b’ok, Savoy
4. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – A night in Tunisia, Philips
5. Sidney Bechet – Achin’hearted blues, Cbs
6. Lionel Hampton with Dexter Gordon – Seven come eleven, Who’s who in Jazz
7. Jimmy Smith – Caravan, Blue Note
8. Coleman Hawkins – Ooga dOoga, Oriole Records
9. Charles Mingus – So long Eric, America
10. Ornette Coleman – Voice poetry, Artists house
11. Oscar Peterson – Wave, Mps
12. Wayne Shorter – Speak no evil, Jamey Aebersold

Oscar Peterson

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.

Website

Records:

1. the Oscar Peterson Trio – It’s all right with me, Verve
2. the Oscar Peterson Trio – Band call, Verve Records
3. Oscar Peterson – Wave, Mps
4. Oscar Peterson – Spinning wheel, Pablo