[Dixielandjazz] Oscar Peterson

[Charlie Hooks]

on 1/25/03 11:03 PM, Stephen Barbone at barbonestreet at earthlink.net wrote:

> I think the reason Miles Davis hated him is because he thought Miles was
> pretentious is saying that he was going to change the direction of jazz,
> and Peterson told him so.

Yes, that.  And also because Oscar could outplay Miles (and almost anyone
else) backward and upside down; because Oscar may have been annoyed by white
people, but he didn't make a fetish of hating them as did Miles.

Spike Lee is a Miles clone.  Oscar seems more like Bill Cosby.

Charlie