The Mournful Tidings Of Oscar Peterson / 재즈 피아노의 큰 별 오스카 피터슨 타계 > 공지사항

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--- Jazz Legend Oscar Peterson Dies---


Peterson was one of jazz's most recorded musicians, and was famous for his fast-playing virtuoso style.

He made more than 200 albums and won eight Grammy awards, including a lifetime achievement honour in 1997.

He released his first single at the age of 19 and performed with greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and Nat "King" Cole.

The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame announced last month that it was to present the star with its Founder's Award in 2008.

This was to celebrate "a brilliant jazz pianist and composer" who showed "musical dexterity and energetic performances", it said.

Peterson, who had a working-class upbringing in Montreal, won a talent contest organised by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) when he was 14 years old.

"The world has lost an import!ant jazz player," Hazel McCallion, mayor of Mississauga, Ontario, and Peterson's close friend, told CBC News.

"He's been going downhill in the last few months, slowing up," she added.

His studio and live partners included Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and Stan Getz.

Basie once described Peterson as someone who "plays the best ivory box I've ever heard", while Ellington referred to him as "Maharajah of the keyboard".

Gifted at improvisation, Peterson said in 2005 how live free-form jazz could enable "moments of great beauty to emerge".

He was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour, and he was the first living Canadian to be depicted on a stamp.

Peterson was married four times and had five children, all by his first wife.


- 출처 : BBC

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2007년 12월 23일 일요일, 캐나다 출신의 세계적인 재즈 피아니스트 오스카 피터슨이 82세를 일기로, 캐나다 토론토 근교 자택에서 신경쇠약으로 세상을 떠났습니다.

피터슨은 신기에 가까운 양손 스윙 연주법과 부기 우기에서 비밥 스타일에 이르는 다양한 작곡 활동으로 재즈계의 살아있는 전설로 추앙받았습니다. 60년 세월 동안 많은 음반을 발표한 연주자 중 한 명으로 손꼽힙니다.

그는 일곱 차례의 그래미상과 1997년 그래미 공로상, 로이 톰슨 어워드, 2000년 유네스코 음악상 등 재즈 관련상을 휩쓸었습니다. 현재 재즈 명예의 전당에 올라 있으며, 캐나다에서는 생존자 중 처음으로 2005년 기념 우표에 등장하기도 했습니다.

삼가 명복을 빕니다.