Oscar Peterson

by Richard Palmer

Book Overview

Book by Palmer, Richard This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0946771456
• ISBN13: 9780946771455
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Spellmount Publishers Ltd
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A superb starter

Richard Palmer contributes a spendid analysis of Petersons career here. You wouldn't go far wrong in using this as the basis for which Peterson albums to buy (indeed I have done so to large degree). As this was written in the 1980's it does not cover the later part of Petersons career when he suffered a stroke and lost the use of his left-hand in the early 1990's. So what you have here is a small concise volume, which includes a lot useful musical information, including extracts from interviews with Andre Previn and discussions about the frequent comparisons between Peterson and Tatum. This is well worth getting.