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p2pnet news | Music:- Oscar Peterson, the incredibly gifted Canadian jazz pianist, a legend everywhere except in his own country, is dead, aged 82.
Mentor and friend to Diana Krall, “He played for the Queen, and wrote a suite for Prince Charles’s wedding to Diana,” says The Independent.
“I consider him to be the dominant piano player that established my foundation,” pianist Herbie Hancock says in the Los Angeles Times.
“I had started off as a classical pianist, and I was dazzled by the precision of his playing. But it was primarily the groove that moved me about Oscar. The groove and the blues, but with the sophistication that I was used to from classical music.”
“He was the reason I became a jazz pianist,” Krall said in a moving CBC interview from her home on Vancouver Island the day after his death.
He died of kidney failure at his home in Mississauga, Toronto.
Peterson collected eight Grammy Awards and made made more than 200 albums.
Say Kelly and Celine Peterson on his site:
We would like to thank everyone who has sent their condolences, and the hundreds of you who sent e-mail messages. We appreciate it very much. There will be a public memorial service in the near future, and we will provide all the details right here once everything has been decided.
For anyone who would like to make donations, we ask you to please make them to World Vision or Christian Children’s Fund in honour of Oscar Peterson. Thank you once again for all your love and support. May God Bless his Soul!
In 2004 The Late Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen suggested that Oscar write lyrics to “When Summer Comes”. In 2005 when Niels passed away, Oscar persued this and asked Elvis Costello to write lyrics. On Oscar’s 80th Birthday event, Diana Krall sang the lyrics that Elvis wrote. Oscar loved the lyrics, and we thought it would be fitting to have them here for others to enjoy.
When Summer Comes
(Music by Oscar Peterson -Lyrics by Elvis Costello -Originally Performed by Diana Krall)
The land was white
While the winter moon as absent from the night
And the blackness only pierced by far off stars
But as every day still succeeds the darkest moments we have known
When season turn
Springtime colours will return
And as the first pale flowers of the lengthening hours
Seem to brighten the twilight and that melancholy cloak
Then a fresh perfume just seems to burst from each bloom
Until the green shoots through each day
As it arrives in every shade of hope
When Summer Comes
There will be a dream of peace
And a breath that I’ve held so long that I can barely release
Then perhaps I may even find a room somewhere
Just a place I can still speak to you
Also See:
The Independent - Oscar Peterson, modern master of jazz piano, dies aged 82, December 26, 2007
Los Angeles Times - Pianist dazzled jazz world with technique, creativity, December 26, 2007
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