Artist Profiles

Oscar Peterson: Will To Perfection

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Andrew Velez

Andrew Velez

Contributing Editor since 2005

Velez is a freelance writer whose work appears in Time Out, Genre and AidsMeds.com.

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Published: August 13, 2006

Oscar Peterson, Exclusively for My Friends (Polygram, 1995)
Oscar Peterson, Live at the Blue Note (Telarc, 1990)
Oscar Peterson, The Trio (Pablo, 1973)
Oscar Peterson, Night Train (Verve, 1962)
Oscar Peterson, At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival (Verve, 1956)
Oscar Peterson, Tenderly (Verve, 1950)

[Oscar Peterson quotation excerpts taken from A Jazz Odyssey: The Life of Oscar Peterson, edited by Richard Palmer, Continuum Publishing, 2002]

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Top Photo: Patti Gower/The Toronto Star
Bottom Photo: Edward Gajdel

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