Name: Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing (Updated)
SKU: 1593851
Price: 31.46 EUR
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Author: Lees, Gene
ISBN: 9780815410218

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Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing (Updated)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gene Lees

Publisher

Cooper Square Press

Year

2000

Language

English

Pages

333

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.3x2 cm

Weight

0.47 kg.

ISBN

0815410212

ISBN13

9780815410218

Synopsis "Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing (Updated) "

An engaging biography of a living musical legend, Oscar Peterson. A man Duke Ellington once called the " maharajah of the piano." Gene Lees carefully builds up the portrait of Peterson, his childhood and what it meant to be be black and talented in Montreal in the 1940s, hist three marriages and six children, his musical partners (Ray Brown, Herb Ellis and Ed Thigpen), his musical friends and colleagues (Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Tatum and Lester Young, amongst others) and the critical controversy and mythology that have long surrounded Peterson. This updated version has a new chapter that covers Peterson's appointment as Chancellor of York University; his receipt of ten honorary doctorates and the Order of Canada; his stroke and partial recovery; the origins and fallout of his cancelled North American tour and much more.

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