[Dixielandjazz] Oscar Peterson honored

[Harry Callaghan]

Hans

Just wanted to thank you for putting me wise as to the "With Respect to Nat"
album.

I found CDs priced all over the place but then came upon a vinyl copy
(re-issued on Verve) that's going to cost me less than $6  with shipping
included.

With Manny Alban conducting a big band on the majority of the selections
contained and a few others with Oscar being supported by Ray Ellis on guitar
and Ray Brown on bass, I don't see how it can miss.

EBay even had it available on a reel-to-reel tape with bids starting at
$2.99 but anytime I get involved with them and their precious PayPal, it
always manages to come around and bite me in the ass.

HC


On 3/20/10, Hans en Corrie <koerthchkz at zeelandnet.nl> wrote:
>
> Oscar Peterson was a great vocalist too .................. and his voice
> sounded very similar to that of Nat King Cole. Arnold Van Kampen wrote in
> "Oscar Peterson - The vocal styling" (
> http://keepswinging.blogspot.com/2008/01/oscar-peterson-vocal-styling.html)
> ( copy and paste)  "Oscar made several vocal recordings, not only on the
> album Romances, but also on an album dedicated to Nat King Cole after he
> passed away in February 1965. It is a fact that Oscar and Nat were close
> friends and the legendary words spoken are true: If you play the piano; I
> will sing. Oscar and Nat made that appointment due to the fact that both
> voices sounded rather the same. Oscar respected this appointment and
> recorded With Respect To Nat released by Mercury/Limelight after Nat passed
> away."
>
> Hans
>
> Jazz .. and more - a weekly blog:
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>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
> [mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] Namens Harry Callaghan
> Verzonden: zaterdag 20 maart 2010 12:13
> Aan: Hans Koert
> CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> Onderwerp: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Oscar Peterson honored
>
> Knowing of the great admiration that Diana Krall had for Oscar Peterson,
> I'm
> guessing that the only reason she has not yet recorded an album in tribute
> to him is because he was not also a vocalist as was Nat "King" Cole.
>
> She recorded an excellent album in tribute to Cole and I think her
> reluctance to do so with Peterson is that she may not feel that the public
> would buy an album that was absent of her vocals.
>
> In the case of both Diana and Harry Connick Jr., I personally have had
> equal
> admiration for them as both vocalists and pianists but I guess I'm not
> everybody.
>
> Incidentally, Oscar Peterson was one artist who saw fit to record an album
> in tribute to Frank Sinatra, while Frank was still alive.and able to
> appreciate.it.
>
> He was a true jazz giant who I do not believe during his lifetime was
> afforded the same recognition as Errol Garner, George Shearing and Art
> Tatum  .But it's never too late to give a listen to some of his albums and
> see what you might have been missing
>
> Tides,
> HC.
>
>
> On 3/20/10, Robert Ringwald <rsr at ringwald.com> wrote:
> >
> > Life-Size Sculpture to Honour Jazz Giant Peterson
> > by Martin Knelman
> > Toronto Star, March 19, 2010
> > The bronze fingers will not fly nimbly across the ivories, but the image
> of
> > jazz
> > icon Oscar Peterson will preside steps from Parliament Hill on Canada Day
> > and from
> > then on.
> > It's his country's tribute to an artist Louis Armstrong dubbed "the man
> > with four
> > hands" and Duke Ellington called "the maharajah of the keyboard."
> > "It's a complicated process that takes more than a year," says sculptor
> > Ruth Abernethy,
> > who has made a specialty of creating life-size bronze statues of Canadian
> > giants,
> > including that other genius of the piano, Glenn Gould, whose statue is a
> > fixture
> > at the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto.
> > The Oscar Peterson statue will be unveiled June 30 just outside the
> > National Arts
> > Centre, steps from Parliament Hill and the Canadian War Memorial, as part
> > of Canada
> > Day celebrations.
> > This week, a group of leading Canadians and Oscar fans, including those
> > other noted
> > pianists, Stephen Harper and Bob Rae, kicked off a $210,000 fundraising
> > campaign
> > to pay for the statue.
> > Orchestrating the whole venture are Peter Herrndorf, CEO of the arts
> > centre, and
> > Brian Robertson, the veteran producer who collaborated with Herrndorf and
> > others
> > on organizing the memorable tribute to Peterson at Roy Thomson Hall
> shortly
> > after
> > Peterson's death at 82 in late December 2007.
> > "Oscar Peterson is a quintessential Canadian success story," says Harper.
> > "He came
> > from humble roots to become a legendary performer who inspired countless
> > artists
> > all over the world. He deserves to be honoured in this prominent location
> > of our
> > nation's capital."
> > Born in 1925, the son of a train porter, Peterson grew up in a
> > working-class area
> > of Montreal. He became a local celebrity in the 1940s when he played at
> the
> > Alberta
> > Lounge and was heard live on radio.
> > His big breakthrough was being discovered by the top jazz impresario,
> > Norman Granz,
> > who took Oscar to Carnegie Hall. After that, in a career that lasted more
> > than 60
> > years, he collaborated with all the jazz greats of the period and toured
> > the world.
> > As a black artist, he often felt the sting of discrimination and
> > humiliation.
> > For the last half of his life, Peterson's home was in Mississauga, where
> > his family
> > endured his lengthy absences with a degree of pain that was poignantly
> > captured in
> > the 1992 documentary film In the Key of Oscar, by his niece Sylvia
> Sweeney.
> > Married
> > four times, he had six children.
> > The statue will not be complete for a couple of months, but, according to
> > Abernethy,
> > it will look exactly the same as the temporary wax version now in the
> > process of
> > being transformed into bronze.
> > Abernethy, who began her career in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's
> > props department,
> > has also created bronze sculptures of Toronto actor Al Waxman, in
> Bellevue
> > Square
> > Park in Kensington Market, and Manitoba Theatre Centre co-founders John
> > Hirsch and
> > Tom Hendry, in Winnipeg.
> > In her sculpture, Peterson is seated on a bench by a grand piano.
> Following
> > the same
> > concept used in her Glenn Gould statue, the Oscar sculpture invites
> > passersby to
> > sit with the pianist and play a duet.
> > As for the funding campaign, Bob Rae says: "Our national committee
> members
> > hope to
> > engage jazz lovers and Canadians everywhere to contribute to this
> wonderful
> > tribute
> > to one of our country's national treasures.
> > Among the first donors were Stephen and Laureen Harper.
> > Both the Prime Minister and Rae, a senior figure in the Opposition, have
> > played the
> > piano at the NAC.
> > Members of the national committee include William Davis, Roy McMurtry,
> > Senator Tommy
> > Banks, Gail Asper, Denise Donlon, Tim Armstrong, Harvey Glatt, Valerie
> > Pringle and
> > Ross Porter.
> > Donations can be made online at
> > http://www.nac-cna.ca/oscar
> >
> >
> > --Bob Ringwald K6YBV
> > rsr at ringwald.com
> > Fulton Street Jazz Band
> > 916/806-9551
> >
> > Check out our latest recording at www.ringwald.com/recordings.htm
> >
> > Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected?
> >
> >
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