As a Canadian I am upset that I was never taught about Oscar Peterson in the public school system. He should be a household name in this country as one of the greatest Canadian artists to have ever lived
One of the few greatest pianists and creative musicians the world has ever seen or heard. It is a SCANDAL that he is not celebrated in the country of his birth. It makes me so angry.
For all you Canadians out there, Oscar was loved the world over! I hope this recognition will come in Canada!! I love him and miss him RIP Oscar. Erik the Netherlands
He has certainly been celebrated in Canada, as much as you can expect anyone who is not a pop star or pro athlete to be celebrated. Anyone who knew anything about jazz in Canada knew who Oscar Peterson was.
Yes! And the Bill Evans Trio is one of my favorites as well. I think this Trio and LA4 are my favorite Ray Brown projects that I’m aware of so far, but there is sooo much amazing history that I’m trying hard to catch up on. As a bassist, there is so much great stuff to learn from these legendary performances!
i think for me id have to say nat king cole trio is # 1 then oscar peterson trio then bill evans trio then erroll garner trio, if i had to rank them haha
Tuomas, I agree with you about being the inspiration for getting into music. It was the same with me in 1975 becoming a Jazz bassist. Definitely Oscar's best trio. Hope you are still in music.
I’m reading comments about Ed Thigpen’s time keeping. Mr. Thigpen, whom I never had the pleasure of meeting, played great time. He and Mr. Ray Brown followed Mr. Peterson beautifully. The whole group is responsible for playing time. That being said, the energy that Mr. Peterson generated necessitated that kind of playing from each member. For my money, their time and feeling was beautiful and of the highest artistic level. This is my favorite trio and in my opinion the best and most swinging in the history of jazz playing. Who cares if the time moved, it made the music incredibly exciting. No one individual should be blamed for the time moving. In addition, I’ve heard Mr. Thigpen play with with big bands, as well as rhythm sections playing behind three and four horn soloists, and he did it all very well. He knew how to play with any size group, just a well schooled and experienced drummer. A beautiful drummer in one of the greatest ever trios.
I think it was 1960 when Oscar Peterson was starring with Ella at the Gaumont Hammersmith London. I was there !! I now go to Marsiac Jazz Festival each year to see and hear Ella's beautiful songs. Wonderful.
ICONE ABSOLUTO DO JAZZ, O. Peterson, sempre soube combinar COM MAESTRIA E BRILHO, improvisação melódica e harmonia, que FLUIAM COMO CACHOEIRAS DOS SEUS DEDOS... !!!😅😅😅😅
Forced to learn classical which was not my bag. Aged 12 I found Oscar and a tape machine. Learnt his licks and chords as best I could. Still learning from him in my 50s.Thank you Oscar😍👌
THIS MAN IS SO WONDERFUL, HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL, SWEET AS THE DAY IS LONG, HUMBLE, SO FUNNY AND I ADORE HIS PIANO PLAYING WITH THIS TRIO. OSCAR CAN PLAY ANY KIND OF MUSIC. HE'S THE MASTER. I'M SO GLAD HE MADE THIS VIDEO FOR ALL OF US TO ENJOY FOREVER! . . SYLVIA!-7/20
I love this particular Oscar Peterson trio: Ed Thigpen was the best! As was Ray Brown. And of course the master orchestrates the whole thing. RIP gentlemen, see you sooner than later:-)
This is a great display of how explosive this trio was. These special arrangements he put together make these tunes their own. They are on fire here. This is a must watch video for jazz fans and ones who are just being introduced to it. To know what swinging is all about - here it is! Thanks for posting!
Thank goodness for Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, German, and many European sources for great live jazz footage from the 1960s, otherwise we’d have nothing. I’m not sure if Canadian jazz musicians were as unappreciated back then as Americans were, but it seems we didn’t film or shoot video of nights like this because it wasn’t important or didn’t sell like pop music. Other countries valued jazz more, I suppose, to the extent that some American jazz musicians expatriated to Paris, Stockholm, etc.
Well, I Kind of agree, - except for OP with NHOP and Martin Drew: both as good as it gets. Check out "You look good to me" with Ray AND nhop. and the 85berlin concert. Gerard an Nancy you have taste!
This guy was the master. His best trio was with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen. Oscar got the best use of dynamic range of the piano. Nobody else [except Tatum] came close. I could never understand criticisms of Oscar as if to imply he copied Tatum's world. He was second in line with this style, but took the whole thing to another level. I watched Oscar play in a Jazz Tutorial with Joe Pass in Brisbane Australia in the late 70's and the experience never left me. Yes... this group was his best musical association [ but I do appreciate the comment here about bassist Sam Jones and Bob Durham].
No group held a candle to the Brown, Thigpen, Peterson ensemble in terms of technical perfection. Horace Silver's quintets were fantastic too, but in a different way.
This is just super classy and outstanding musicianship! I love it! Just listening for the first time to this trio. Shame on me for not discovering them earlier... I've had an Ed Thigpen signature Sabian Ride cymbal for many years and it was only a few months ago that I looked up who he was. Never getting rid of that cymbal.
Mother Mary and the Baby Jesus! HOW? If you dont know how to play you have no idea how utterly HARD this is. Its as if he is solving an Einstein-like mathematical equation within each bar of music!
This was a classic OP trio, and he and Ray Brown had a rare empathy but my favourite trio is the one with Sam Jones and Bobby Durham, a rhythm section unsurpassed in swinging.
God must have loved Mr Peterson very much! He was doubly gifted both in classical and jazz and Mr Peterson worked very hard developing those gifts. Boy! Look and listen to the end result!
@@LMatters1 Geeeez . . . you petty people always let _'religious people talkin bullshit'_ hurt your feelings to point where the subject matter, matters not. Take a break from scrolling feeds to see what you can be mad at and just enjoy what you're watching. Unless that's your thing . . . . I mean, if that's your thing then . . . . less power to you. Scroll on, mad man. Scroll on.
To LMatters1: sounds like you’re having a crisis of faith. When one listens to this music and its performers it proves to us that there is a God, and he must love us to allow us to enjoy this music while we’re on the Earth. You don’t think that man is capable of playing like this on his own do you? What we’re listening to is a gift from God. Like all of us sinners you need prayer in order to open your eyes, ears and heart, I’m sure many of us will pray for you. May God bless you and yours.
tipofelice to say that anyone except Oscar Peterson is responsible for Oscar’s skill and musical ability is an insult to Oscar. It’s such a shame when musicians who put in thousands of hours to sound the way they do are spoken about in this way. Whether you believe in God or not, it is wrong to say that God is the only reason that Oscar was a great musician. Please do us all a favor and fuck off
It's crazy that that was over 90 years ago and you can still play the exact things he's playing on the same instrument. It's hard to imagine the man in black and white is real and was really playing this, but the piano he is using to play such beautiful things is the same 80 something keys that exist in nearly every home in North America and with time anyone could do 'that' on your own piano. That's wild
Oscar Peterson - piano era Canadense ! E como era difícil e caro conseguir comprar um disco LP desde gênio do Jazz. Só havia uma casa, no Rio de Janeiro, as Lojas Palermo, de saudosa memória. Ficava no Largo do Tabuleiro da Baiana, ponto central do bonde. Hoje é o Ed. Central e o Largo da Carioca, no centro do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Someday My Prince Will Come Maria 4:53 You Look Good to Me 8:59 Tonight 14:30 Goodbye 17:53 Golden Striker 24:55 Well I've listened to this recording a few times and I simply can't believe it. Here's the encore: th-cam.com/video/tCrrZ1NnCuM/w-d-xo.html Thank you - send more.
Here's a good one for you. I'm a born and raised Torontonian, U of T Alumni, (1980), no stranger to jazz and the Coda music store,.. But l had no idea that Oscar was Canadian. Trust me, this is not something that the average kid would know
I heard him live at the Barbican Hall in London in 1984 with Nils Henning Orsted Pedersen and Martin Drew. Sadly they are all gone now. One of the greats for sure. I love his composition "Hymn To Freedom". Canada's greatest ever musician.
Oscar's best trio. Never got into Pedersen's bass. Oscar obviously liked him but as a listner and former bassist, Ray Brown was his best bassist. Thigpen was solid... The kind of drummer I always wanted to work with but never got. We went to interview Oscar when he was in Australia in 77. He was in no mood for an interview on that day. Suspect the sack of stupid questions that most people interviewing him tossed at him and he probably figured what the hell...basta finito.. Oscar my hero even to this day..
As a Canadian I am upset that I was never taught about Oscar Peterson in the public school system. He should be a household name in this country as one of the greatest Canadian artists to have ever lived
He is unquestionably one of the greatest pianists of all time. His only rival is Fredric Chopin. who lived from 1810 -1849.
One of the few greatest pianists and creative musicians the world has ever seen or heard. It is a SCANDAL that he is not celebrated in the country of his birth.
It makes me so angry.
For all you Canadians out there, Oscar was loved the world over! I hope this recognition will come in Canada!! I love him and miss him RIP Oscar. Erik the Netherlands
Oh, definitely! His playing is still of a big, positive influence on many people, liking jazz or not that doesn't matter 🙂.
He has certainly been celebrated in Canada, as much as you can expect anyone who is not a pop star or pro athlete to be celebrated. Anyone who knew anything about jazz in Canada knew who Oscar Peterson was.
Oscar's music satisfies the brain in ways I can't explain.
Superb,they were all at the height of their powers,always thought it was Oscars best trio.
The finest jazz trio, ever.
Hands down the best of all time.
Yes! And the Bill Evans Trio is one of my favorites as well. I think this Trio and LA4 are my favorite Ray Brown projects that I’m aware of so far, but there is sooo much amazing history that I’m trying hard to catch up on. As a bassist, there is so much great stuff to learn from these legendary performances!
i think for me id have to say nat king cole trio is # 1 then oscar peterson trio then bill evans trio then erroll garner trio, if i had to rank them haha
@@ohm8961 nat king cole trio can be #1 in the comments of a nat king cole trio show
@@DuderDudre 😂 ok charles my bad
I adore this trio! This three gentlemen are one of the main reasons I became a musician!
Tuomas,
I agree with you about being the inspiration for getting into music. It was the same with me in 1975 becoming a Jazz bassist.
Definitely Oscar's best trio.
Hope you are still in music.
Anche x me, sono il mio primo amore..avevo 13 anni
Oscar! Ed! Ray! So tightly coordinated, so intimate, such chemistry between all of them. This is brilliant.
Peterson was unique. A natural talent. Proof is, 60 years of performing at the highest level. There wont be another.
In my 20’s “You look good to me” changed my life.... surely!
I’m reading comments about Ed Thigpen’s time keeping. Mr. Thigpen, whom I never had the pleasure of meeting, played great time. He and Mr. Ray Brown followed Mr. Peterson beautifully. The whole group is responsible for playing time. That being said, the energy that Mr. Peterson generated necessitated that kind of playing from each member. For my money, their time and feeling was beautiful and of the highest artistic level. This is my favorite trio and in my opinion the best and most swinging in the history of jazz playing. Who cares if the time moved, it made the music incredibly exciting. No one individual should be blamed for the time moving. In addition, I’ve heard Mr. Thigpen play with with big bands, as well as rhythm sections playing behind three and four horn soloists, and he did it all very well. He knew how to play with any size group, just a well schooled and experienced drummer. A beautiful drummer in one of the greatest ever trios.
Your comments are absolutely spot on. No other trio equaled this ensemble, and Thigpen was an extremely masterful drummer.
I think it was 1960 when Oscar Peterson was starring with Ella at the Gaumont Hammersmith London. I was there !! I now go to Marsiac Jazz
Festival each year to see and hear Ella's beautiful songs. Wonderful.
"You have to be talented only to listen to this"-best youtube comment!
agreed!
That's what I love about his playing is it's done with such clarity.
0:00 Someday my prince wil come
4:54 Maria
9:00 You look good to me
14:28 Tonight
17:54 Goodbye
24:56 Golden Striker
ICONE ABSOLUTO DO JAZZ, O. Peterson, sempre soube combinar COM MAESTRIA E BRILHO, improvisação melódica e harmonia, que FLUIAM COMO CACHOEIRAS DOS SEUS DEDOS... !!!😅😅😅😅
Existem poucas verdades absolutas e essa é uma delas…
Everyone who disliked this video is obviously just jealous of this man's talent.
nah, just clueless...
Or just too stupid even to aknowledge that talent.
MUST HAVE A TIN EAR, LOSS OF HEARING OR JUST PLAIN NON-MUSICAL! . .SYLVIA! 7/20
Forced to learn classical which was not my bag. Aged 12 I found Oscar and a tape machine. Learnt his licks and chords as best I could. Still learning from him in my 50s.Thank you Oscar😍👌
Oscar Peterson also studied classical piano music before becoming a jazz pianist virtuoso.
58 ans après, toujours aussi fabuleux, merci ++
THIS MAN IS SO WONDERFUL, HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL, SWEET AS THE DAY IS LONG, HUMBLE, SO FUNNY AND I ADORE HIS PIANO PLAYING WITH THIS TRIO. OSCAR CAN PLAY ANY KIND OF MUSIC. HE'S THE MASTER. I'M SO GLAD HE MADE THIS VIDEO FOR ALL OF US TO ENJOY FOREVER! . . SYLVIA!-7/20
A billion 'likes' for your comment.
@@grahamlyons8522 You are welcome. SYLVIA! 10'2'21
@@grahamlyons8522 Thank you, Graham!
Fantastico❤
Awesome, this Trio ist Amazing, Oscar RIP!!!
Listen....and believe there is a God and we are his children. Talent, ambition, purpose.
Oscar peterson 's improvisation is always fantastic
Oscar Peterson was the greatest of all time (GOAT) jazz pianist in my (and many others) opinion. Flat-out a master.
I love this particular Oscar Peterson trio: Ed Thigpen was the best! As was Ray Brown. And of course the master orchestrates the whole thing. RIP gentlemen, see you sooner than later:-)
Oh, Daisy, why sooner?
This is staggering. Wow. Just love love love this genius.
This is a great display of how explosive this trio was. These special arrangements he put together make these tunes their own. They are on fire here. This is a must watch video for jazz fans and ones who are just being introduced to it. To know what swinging is all about - here it is! Thanks for posting!
Great playing guys!! A Wonderful concert on tape to listen to forever!!!
Thank goodness for Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, German, and many European sources for great live jazz footage from the 1960s, otherwise we’d have nothing. I’m not sure if Canadian jazz musicians were as unappreciated back then as Americans were, but it seems we didn’t film or shoot video of nights like this because it wasn’t important or didn’t sell like pop music. Other countries valued jazz more, I suppose, to the extent that some American jazz musicians expatriated to Paris, Stockholm, etc.
Jeff Dawson Very well said Jeff. Dig & Cheers!
So good, amazing.
Wow! this is a wonderful performance by my favorite trio. True artists. I think this a 9 alarmer.
Ray brown too, absolutely driving it!
fabulous. Thanks. The greatest trio in jazz.
I totally agree with you dear Nancy ! The ones and only Oscar, Ray and Ed.......Stars in the sky !
Well, I Kind of agree, - except for OP with NHOP and Martin Drew: both as good as it gets. Check out "You look good to me" with Ray AND nhop. and the 85berlin concert.
Gerard an Nancy you have taste!
Thanks 9VBGI. People who like OP and his different trios are good fellows !! Have a great year 2018 !
Great music and, first of all, incredible musicians.
Spectacular talent. Amazing!
Only God can endow such talent upon a soul. Gifted, gifted team chaps.
This guy was the master. His best trio was with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen. Oscar got the best use of dynamic range of the piano. Nobody else [except Tatum] came close. I could never understand criticisms of Oscar as if to imply he copied Tatum's world. He was second in line with this style, but took the whole thing to another level. I watched Oscar play in a Jazz Tutorial with Joe Pass in Brisbane Australia in the late 70's and the experience never left me. Yes... this group was his best musical association [ but I do appreciate the comment here about bassist Sam Jones and Bob Durham].
No group held a candle to the Brown, Thigpen, Peterson ensemble in terms of technical perfection. Horace Silver's quintets were fantastic too, but in a different way.
This is just super classy and outstanding musicianship! I love it! Just listening for the first time to this trio. Shame on me for not discovering them earlier... I've had an Ed Thigpen signature Sabian Ride cymbal for many years and it was only a few months ago that I looked up who he was. Never getting rid of that cymbal.
3 Masters at one time is beyond real
The greatest MUSICIAN to ever draw breath
Mother Mary and the Baby Jesus! HOW? If you dont know how to play you have no idea how utterly HARD this is. Its as if he is solving an Einstein-like mathematical equation within each bar of music!
you can hear him humming the same notes too, it's incredible the mind-finger connection it was like it all flowed straight through him
he’s just havin fun
stunning virtuosity. i am to play as well as Oscar on my guitar. may never get there but its fun tying.
Check out Wim Den Herder. He plays Oscar Peterson on guitar.
Vanguard - good luck, man!
What-ya shoelaces? Keep at it you'll get there!😖
The epitome of tasteful swing!
Happy birthday Mr Peterson!
Awesome...My Favorite Trio
Classic!
Quality, new favorite version of someday my prince will come
brilliant, I enjoy it everytime....
the sheer joy on his face
This was a classic OP trio, and he and Ray Brown had a rare empathy but my favourite trio is the one with Sam Jones and Bobby Durham, a rhythm section unsurpassed in swinging.
My favorite group was Oscar, Ray Brown and Herb Ellis. They could swing like a big band. Check out their album at the Stratford Music Festival
God must have loved Mr Peterson very much! He was doubly gifted both in classical and jazz and Mr Peterson worked very hard developing those gifts. Boy! Look and listen to the end result!
Geez you religious people talk some bullshit.
@@LMatters1 Geeeez . . . you petty people always let _'religious people talkin bullshit'_ hurt your feelings to point where the subject matter, matters not.
Take a break from scrolling feeds to see what you can be mad at and just enjoy what you're watching. Unless that's your thing . . . .
I mean, if that's your thing then . . . . less power to you.
Scroll on, mad man.
Scroll on.
To LMatters1: sounds like you’re having a crisis of faith. When one listens to this music and its performers it proves to us that there is a God, and he must love us to allow us to enjoy this music while we’re on the Earth. You don’t think that man is capable of playing like this on his own do you? What we’re listening to is a gift from God. Like all of us sinners you need prayer in order to open your eyes, ears and heart, I’m sure many of us will pray for you. May God bless you and yours.
tipofelice to say that anyone except Oscar Peterson is responsible for Oscar’s skill and musical ability is an insult to Oscar. It’s such a shame when musicians who put in thousands of hours to sound the way they do are spoken about in this way. Whether you believe in God or not, it is wrong to say that God is the only reason that Oscar was a great musician. Please do us all a favor and fuck off
Woderfull Trio,Best Trio in the World!
thank you very much
Maravilloso!!!
good
It's crazy that that was over 90 years ago and you can still play the exact things he's playing on the same instrument. It's hard to imagine the man in black and white is real and was really playing this, but the piano he is using to play such beautiful things is the same 80 something keys that exist in nearly every home in North America and with time anyone could do 'that' on your own piano. That's wild
This wasn't over 90 years ago lol
@@rorz999 lol I am not very good at math
So swingin.Thanks for sharing
Ed Thigpen is the master of brush playing bar none (maybe Jeff Hamilton).
I feel Thigpen was really the only drummer who could keep up with Oscar.
A mente tão linda e formada de um musico como poucos.
🥰good music
Brilliant!
Magistral
That’s my man👍👌❤️
Masterly!
that little blues switch at 1:54 was incredible!!
pure magic
Greatness.
great!
Pure magic
un manjarsh ❤️✌️🇨🇱
His level of proficiency on the piano is unparalleled in all history of jazz, you could only compare him to greats like Lyle M or A. Tatum ...
Oscar Peterson - piano era Canadense ! E como era difícil e caro conseguir comprar um disco LP desde gênio do Jazz. Só havia uma casa, no Rio de Janeiro, as Lojas Palermo, de saudosa memória. Ficava no Largo do Tabuleiro da Baiana, ponto central do bonde. Hoje é o Ed. Central e o Largo da Carioca, no centro do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
lovely
Sublime!!
Fueron referentes en el mundo Jazz!
so good
Are you f****in kidding me...? This is awsome!
Great legend
Someday My Prince Will Come
Maria 4:53
You Look Good to Me 8:59
Tonight 14:30
Goodbye 17:53
Golden Striker 24:55
Well I've listened to this recording a few times and I simply can't believe it. Here's the encore: th-cam.com/video/tCrrZ1NnCuM/w-d-xo.html Thank you - send more.
As Archie & Edith sang: "Those were the days!" and, I add, specifically, of such great musicians and music performed with artistry and not theatrics!
Avec Oscar, le Prince est venu !
Here's a good one for you. I'm a born and raised Torontonian, U of T Alumni, (1980), no stranger to jazz and the Coda music store,..
But l had no idea that Oscar was Canadian.
Trust me, this is not something that the average kid would know
The average kid?? The average kid don't know nothin'.
Teddy meet him❤ parient
Ocarana i zacarana❤
Mi piace sentire il suono modo di suonare
wowowowowowowowow
I heard him live at the Barbican Hall in London in 1984 with Nils Henning Orsted Pedersen and Martin Drew. Sadly they are all gone now. One of the greats for sure. I love his composition "Hymn To Freedom". Canada's greatest ever musician.
Butter
Giants in Jazz
The greatest cnadian musician and we dont put him at the top of the list
I do.
someday my prince in 4 is quite nice
Good God, if I had to choose between Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson, I don't think I could: They were equally brilliant.
2:58 whoa his piano just turned into a rhodes??
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crikey amacing dkills !
Estoy aquí porque me ha enviado Ramón, el dilluns 29-III-2021, ¡gracias Ramón!
Fine
Lindgren Mill
Oscar's best trio.
Never got into Pedersen's bass. Oscar obviously liked him but as a listner and former bassist, Ray Brown was his best bassist. Thigpen was solid... The kind of drummer I always wanted to work with but never got.
We went to interview Oscar when he was in Australia in 77. He was in no mood for an interview on that day. Suspect the sack of stupid questions that most people interviewing him tossed at him and he probably figured what the hell...basta finito..
Oscar my hero even to this day..
👍
8:38 8:56 Healing Time
You've got to be kidding me. I guess there's Bach, Hendrix and Oscar Peterson?
You've got 2 out of three right. :-)