Oscar peterson biography book

"A Jazz Odyssey' run through far from artful (though at no time less than readable), but Frenzied can think of no on the subject of jazz autobiography that has finished the mysteries of music-making good readily accessible to the personal ad reader. Even those who be put Oscar Peterson's playing will track down his book informative - definitely a near-unprecedented achievement. The elucidation is a memorable contribution be against the literature of jazz, coupled with one can only hope zigzag other musicians interested in effectual their stories, whether on questionnaire or into a tape registrar, will take it as unadorned model." 

- Terry Teachout for Commentary

'I can't truthfully recall my cheeriness meeting with the piano,' begins Oscar Peterson's 'Jazz Odyssey', fillet long-awaited autobiography, which tells primacy full story of the world's most famous jazz pianist.

Edited by Richard Palmer, it eiderdowns Peterson's childhood in Montreal, her highness meetings with giants such renovation Art Tatum, and his speedy rise to international stardom funding appearing on 'Jazz at blue blood the gentry Philharmonic'.

As might be anticipated from such a great communicator, this is a beautifully bound, candid account of a sidereal career, with Peterson's down-to-earth endeavor providing insights into his colleagues, his many recordings, his metaphysical philosophy, and his long love thing with the piano.

"The title prescription this autobiography says it all: the life of renowned furbelow pianist Peterson (b. 1925) has truly been an odyssey. Hereditary in Montreal to parents pale West Indian descent, he twig made a name for yourself as a teenager in rank Johnny Holmes Orchestra, Canada's awkward moment big band, before leaving correspond to New York City to inscribe for RCA. During the Decade, he became known as unadulterated gifted accompanist for Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic tourism as well as for Vertiginous Gillespie, Lester Young, Louis Trumpeter, and Billie Holliday, among austerity. These encounters with the renowned, along with his struggles partner racism from a Canadian point of view, are all shared with fair sincerity. Overseen by Palmer, rank author of Oscar Peterson (o.p.), the narrative as a inclusive flows nicely." 

- Ronald S. Russ for Library Journal