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Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson is a jazz artist from Canada. 106 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · Canada · Best jazz albums
- 106
- Releases
- 1958–2026
- Active years
Discography
106
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Hello Herbie
1981 · 7 tracks
Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
1961
Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Songbook
1959
Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie
1987
Oscar Peterson & Nelson Riddle
1963
Soul Español
1966
The Jazz Soul of Oscar Peterson
1959
Night Rider
1992
Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Song Book
1959
Two of the Few
1992
Oscar Peterson Plays The Harry Warren And Vincent Youmans Song Books
1959
Oscar Peterson + Harry Edison + Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
1987
Time After Time
1992
Oscar Peterson Plays the Jerome Kern Songbook
1959
People
2026
Plays The Jerome Kern Song Book
2025
Very Tall
2024
Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson (Remastered 1995)
2024
Fiorello
2023
Triple Play
2023
The More I See You
2023
Side By Side
2023
Oscar And Benny
2023
What's Up?: The Very Tall Band (Live At The Blue Note, New York City, NY / November 24-26, 1998)
2023
Soft Sands
2023
Oscar's Ballads
2023
An Oscar Peterson Christmas
2022
Trail Of Dreams: A Canadian Suite
2022
Oscar Peterson Plays Count Basie
2022
Jazz Masters 26: Lionel Hampton With Oscar Peterson
2022
Oscar In Paris (Live At The Salle Pleyel, Paris, France / June 25, 1996)
2022
Oscar Peterson Meets Roy Hargrove And Ralph Moore
2021
The Will To Swing
2019
The Essential Oscar Peterson: The Swinger
2019
Jazz At The Philharmonic: Blues In Chicago 1955
2018
Stuff Smith/ Dizzy Gillespie/ Oscar Peterson
2018
Pastel Moods
2018
This Is Oscar Peterson
2018
Oscar Peterson Plays The Richard Rodgers Song Book
2017
Oscar Peterson Plays The Jimmy McHugh Song Book
2017
Oscar Peterson Plays The Irving Berlin Song Book
2017
Plays My Fair Lady
2016
Oscar Peterson Plays The Duke Ellington Song Book
2014
Skol (Original Jazz Classics Remasters) (Live At The Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen / 1979)
2013
Plays Porgy And Bess
2012
Oscar Peterson Plays The George Gershwin Song Book
2011
In A Romantic Mood
2011
Standards (Great Songs/Great Performances)
2010
Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast
2009
The Very Tall Band: Live At The Blue Note (Live At The Blue Note, New York City, NY / November 24-26, 1998)
2009
A Summer Night In Munich (Live At Gasteig, Munich, Germany / July 22, 1998)
2009
A Tribute To Oscar Peterson (Live At The Town Hall, New York City, NY / October 1, 1996)
2009
Debut: The Clef/Mercury Duo Recordings 1949-1951
2009
The Soul Of Oscar Peterson
2008
At Newport
2007
The Composer
2007
The Song Is You: Best Of The Verve Songbooks
2007
Dimensions: A Compendium Of The Pablo Years
2007
Oscar Peterson Live!
2007
Montreux '77 (Remastered 1989 / Live)
2007
Peterson-Grappelli Quartet Vol. 1
2007
Live At The Northsea Jazz Festival, 1980
2006
Solo
2006
The London Concert
2006
Perfect Peterson: The Best Of The Pablo And Telarc Recordings
2006
Porgy And Bess
2006
Oscar Peterson & Harry Edison
2006
The Alternate Blues
2006
Oscar Peterson In Russia
2006
Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington
2006
A La Salle Pleyel
2006
We Get Requests
2005
Oscar Peterson For Lovers
2004
Jazz Ballads 8: Oscar Peterson
2004
A Jazz Odyssey
2002
Oscar Peterson's Finest Hour
2000
Quiet Now: Time & Again
2000
Peterson-Grappelli Quartet vol. 2
2000
Ultimate Oscar Peterson
1998
Cosmopolite: The Oscar Peterson Verve Sessions
1994
History Of An Artist
1993
Jazz 'Round Midnight
1992
Exclusively for My Friends
1992
The Silver Collection
1990
Compact Jazz: Oscar Peterson
1987
Yessir, That's My Baby
1986
The Timekeepers
1983
Skol (Live At The Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen / 1979)
1982
The Personal Touch
1982
Face To Face
1982
A Royal Wedding Suite
1981
Digital At Montreux
1980
The Trumpet Summit Meets The Oscar Peterson Big Four
1980
The Paris Concert
1979
Jazz Maturity
1978
Ella and Oscar
1976
Oscar Peterson And Clark Terry
1975
Oscar Peterson & Jon Faddis
1975
Oscar Peterson & Clark Terry
1975
Oscar Peterson & Roy Eldridge
1975
Satch And Josh
1975
The Trio
1974
The Giants
1974
Reunion Blues
1971
Oscar Peterson Plays Porgy & Bess
1959
Oscar Peterson & Friends - Compact Jazz
1958
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Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, CC, CQ, OOnt (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, but simply "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won eight Grammy Awards, and received numerous other awards and honours. He is considered one of the greatest jazz pianists, and played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years. Biography : Peterson was born to immigrants from the West Indies; his father worked as a porter for Canadian Pacific Railway. Peterson grew up in the neighbourhood of Little Burgundy in Montreal, Quebec. It was in this predominantly black neighbourhood that he found himself surrounded by the jazz culture that flourished in the early 20th century. At the age of five, Peterson began honing his skills with the trumpet and piano. However, a bout of tuberculosis when he was seven prevented him from playing the trumpet again, so he directed all his attention to the piano. His father, Daniel Peterson, an amateur trumpeter and pianist, was one of his first music teachers, and his sister Daisy taught young Oscar classical piano.
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Peterson was persistent at practising scales and classical études daily, and developed his virtuosity thanks to such arduous practice. As a child, Peterson also studied with Hungarian-born pianist Paul de Marky, a student of István Thomán, who was himself a pupil of Franz Liszt, so his early training was predominantly based on classical piano. Meanwhile, he was captivated by traditional jazz and especially boogie-woogie, and learned several ragtime pieces. At that time Peterson was called "the Brown Bomber of the Boogie-Woogie". At the age of nine Peterson played piano with control that impressed professional musicians. For many years his piano studies included four to six hours of daily practice. Only in his later years did he decrease his practice to just one or two hours daily. In 1940, at fourteen years of age, Peterson won the national music competition organized by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. After that victory, he dropped out of the High School of Montreal, where he played in a band with Maynard Ferguson, and became a professional pianist working for a weekly radio show and playing at hotels and music halls. Some of the artists who influenced Peterson's music during the earlier type of years were Teddy Wilson, Nat "King" Cole, James P. Johnson, and Art Tatum, to whom many compared Peterson in later years. One of his earliest exposures to Tatum's musical talents came in his teen years when his father played a recording of Tatum's "Tiger Rag" for him. Peterson was so intimidated by what he heard that he became disillusioned about his own playing, to the extent of refusing to play the piano at all for several weeks. In his own words, "Tatum scared me to death", and Peterson was "never cocky again" about his mastery at the piano. Tatum was a model for Peterson's musicianship during the 1940s and 1950s. Tatum and Peterson eventually became good friends, although Peterson was always shy about being compared with Tatum and rarely played the piano in Tatum's presence. Peterson also credited his sister—a piano teacher in Montreal who also taught several other Canadian jazz musicians—with being an important teacher and influence on his career. Under his sister's tutelage, Peterson expanded into classical piano training and broadened his range while mastering the core classical pianism from scales to preludes and fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach. Building on Tatum's pianism and aesthetics, Peterson also absorbed Tatum's musical influences, notably from piano concertos by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff's harmonizations, as well as direct quotations from his 2nd Piano Concerto, are scattered throughout many recordings by Peterson, including his work with the most familiar formulation of the Oscar Peterson Trio, with bassist Ray Brown and guitarist Herb Ellis. During the 1960s and 1970s Peterson made numerous trio recordings highlighting his piano performances; they reveal more of his eclectic style, absorbing influences from various genres of jazz, popular, and classical music.
Oscar Peterson in brief
- How many Oscar Peterson releases are on Riffiter?
- 106 releases are catalogued, spanning 1958 to 2026.
- What genre is Oscar Peterson?
- Oscar Peterson is catalogued under Jazz.
- What is the most recent Oscar Peterson release on Riffiter?
- People, released in 2026.