Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 30. Chapters: Oscar Peterson discography, Night Train, Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Songbook, Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio, Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio, Oscar Peterson Plays the Duke Ellington Songbook, With Respect to Nat, The Way I Really Play, Bill Henderson with the Oscar Peterson Trio, Buddy DeFranco and Oscar Peterson Play George Gershwin, Bursting Out with the All-Star Big Band!, Ella and Oscar, Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington, An Oscar Peterson Christmas, Oscar Peterson and The Trumpet Kings - Jousts, The Giants, Action, Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson, A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra, Oscar Peterson Plays Porgy & Bess, Exclusively for My Friends: The Lost Tapes, The Alternate Blues, Mellow Mood, Oscar and Benny, The Personal Touch, Night Child, My Favorite Instrument, Travelin' On, Satch and Josh, The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4, In a Romantic Mood, Jazz Maturity...Where It's Coming From, An Evening with Oscar Peterson, Side by Side, Oscar Peterson Plays the Jerome Kern Songbook, Oscar Peterson + Harry Edison + Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Oscar Peterson Plays Harold Arlen, Oscar Peterson Plays the George Gershwin Songbook, Porgy and Bess, Jazz Giants '58, Girl Talk, Tracks, Motions and Emotions, A Tribute to My Friends, Oscar Peterson Trio + One, The More I See You, Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Songbook, Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle, Hark, Trail of Dreams: A Canadian Suite, Oscar Peterson and Harry Edison, Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio, Swinging Brass with the Oscar Peterson Trio, Two of the Few, Yessir, That's My Baby, Ain't But a Few of Us Left, In Tune, Satch and Josh...Again, Soul Espanol, We Get Requests, The...

The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way: through considering their finest albums, which is the format in which this music was most resonantly organized and presented to its public from the 1940s until the very recent decline of the CD. It is through their albums that Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, and the rest of the glorious honor roll of jazz and pop singers have been most tellingly and lastingly appreciated, and the history of the album itself, as Will Friedwald sketches it, can now be seen as a crucial part of musical history. We come to understand that, at their finest, albums have not been mere collections of individual songs strung together arbitrarily but organic phenomena in their own right. A Sinatra album, a Fitzgerald album, was planned and structured to show these artists at their best, at a specific moment in their artistic careers. Yet the albums Friedwald has chosen to anatomize go about their work in a variety of ways. There are studio and solo albums: Lee’s Black Coffee, June Christy’s Something Cool, Cassandra Wilson’s Belly of the Sun. There are brilliant collaborations: famous ones—Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson—and wonderful surprises like Doris Day and Robert Goulet singing Annie Get Your Gun. There are theme albums—Dinah Washington singing Fats Waller, Maxine Sullivan singing Andy Razaf, Margaret Whiting singing Jerome Kern, Barb Jungr singing Bob Dylan, and the sublime Jo Stafford singing American and Scottish folk songs. There are also stunning concert albums like Ella in Berlin, Sarah in Japan, Lena at the Waldorf, and, of course, Judy at Carnegie Hall. All the greats are on hand, from Kay Starr and Carmen McRae to Jimmy Scott and Della Reese (Della Della Cha Cha Cha). And, from out of left field, the astounding God Bless Tiny Tim. Each of the fifty-seven albums discussed here captures the artist at a high point, if not at the expected moment, of her or his career. The individual cuts are evaluated, the sequencing explicated, the songs and songwriters heralded; anecdotes abound of how songs were born and how artists and producers collaborated. And in appraising each album, Friedwald balances his own opinions with those of musicians, listeners, and critics. A monumental achievement, The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums is an essential book for lovers of American jazz and popular music.

An overview of the career of jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, from the fame of his early years as the star attraction of Canada's renowned Johnny Holmes Orchestra to the 1970s and his role as a solo pianist and television personality.

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.

(Keyboard Instruction). Legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson has long been devoted to the education of piano students. In this book he offers dozens of pieces designed to empower the student, whether novice or classically trained, with the technique needed to become an accomplished jazz pianist.

(Artist Transcriptions). 17 piano transcriptions from Peterson recordings, including: All the Things You Are * Baubles, Bangles and Beads * Body and Soul * Come Rain or Come Shine * Easter Parade * If I Were a Bell * Just in Time * The Lady Is a Tramp * On a Clear Day * People * Strike up the Band * Summertime * The Surrey with the Fringe on Top * There's a Small Hotel * 'Til Tomorrow * Who Can I Turn To * Wouldn't It Be Loverly.