The master in a 1965 tv special Oscar Peteron Piano Ray Brown Bass Ed Thigpen Drums . The Songs : Someday my prince wil come Maria You look good to me Tonight Goodbye Golden Striker
As a Canadian I am upset that I was never taught about Oscar Peterson in the public school system. He should be a household name in this country as one of the greatest Canadian artists to have ever lived
One of the few greatest pianists and creative musicians the world has ever seen or heard. It is a SCANDAL that he is not celebrated in the country of his birth. It makes me so angry.
For all you Canadians out there, Oscar was loved the world over! I hope this recognition will come in Canada!! I love him and miss him RIP Oscar. Erik the Netherlands
He has certainly been celebrated in Canada, as much as you can expect anyone who is not a pop star or pro athlete to be celebrated. Anyone who knew anything about jazz in Canada knew who Oscar Peterson was.
Yes! And the Bill Evans Trio is one of my favorites as well. I think this Trio and LA4 are my favorite Ray Brown projects that I’m aware of so far, but there is sooo much amazing history that I’m trying hard to catch up on. As a bassist, there is so much great stuff to learn from these legendary performances!
i think for me id have to say nat king cole trio is # 1 then oscar peterson trio then bill evans trio then erroll garner trio, if i had to rank them haha
Tuomas, I agree with you about being the inspiration for getting into music. It was the same with me in 1975 becoming a Jazz bassist. Definitely Oscar's best trio. Hope you are still in music.
I’m reading comments about Ed Thigpen’s time keeping. Mr. Thigpen, whom I never had the pleasure of meeting, played great time. He and Mr. Ray Brown followed Mr. Peterson beautifully. The whole group is responsible for playing time. That being said, the energy that Mr. Peterson generated necessitated that kind of playing from each member. For my money, their time and feeling was beautiful and of the highest artistic level. This is my favorite trio and in my opinion the best and most swinging in the history of jazz playing. Who cares if the time moved, it made the music incredibly exciting. No one individual should be blamed for the time moving. In addition, I’ve heard Mr. Thigpen play with with big bands, as well as rhythm sections playing behind three and four horn soloists, and he did it all very well. He knew how to play with any size group, just a well schooled and experienced drummer. A beautiful drummer in one of the greatest ever trios.
ICONE ABSOLUTO DO JAZZ, O. Peterson, sempre soube combinar COM MAESTRIA E BRILHO, improvisação melódica e harmonia, que FLUIAM COMO CACHOEIRAS DOS SEUS DEDOS... !!!😅😅😅😅
Forced to learn classical which was not my bag. Aged 12 I found Oscar and a tape machine. Learnt his licks and chords as best I could. Still learning from him in my 50s.Thank you Oscar😍👌
Thank goodness for Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, German, and many European sources for great live jazz footage from the 1960s, otherwise we’d have nothing. I’m not sure if Canadian jazz musicians were as unappreciated back then as Americans were, but it seems we didn’t film or shoot video of nights like this because it wasn’t important or didn’t sell like pop music. Other countries valued jazz more, I suppose, to the extent that some American jazz musicians expatriated to Paris, Stockholm, etc.
Mother Mary and the Baby Jesus! HOW? If you dont know how to play you have no idea how utterly HARD this is. Its as if he is solving an Einstein-like mathematical equation within each bar of music!
I love this particular Oscar Peterson trio: Ed Thigpen was the best! As was Ray Brown. And of course the master orchestrates the whole thing. RIP gentlemen, see you sooner than later:-)
THIS MAN IS SO WONDERFUL, HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL, SWEET AS THE DAY IS LONG, HUMBLE, SO FUNNY AND I ADORE HIS PIANO PLAYING WITH THIS TRIO. OSCAR CAN PLAY ANY KIND OF MUSIC. HE'S THE MASTER. I'M SO GLAD HE MADE THIS VIDEO FOR ALL OF US TO ENJOY FOREVER! . . SYLVIA!-7/20
I think it was 1960 when Oscar Peterson was starring with Ella at the Gaumont Hammersmith London. I was there !! I now go to Marsiac Jazz Festival each year to see and hear Ella's beautiful songs. Wonderful.
This guy was the master. His best trio was with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen. Oscar got the best use of dynamic range of the piano. Nobody else [except Tatum] came close. I could never understand criticisms of Oscar as if to imply he copied Tatum's world. He was second in line with this style, but took the whole thing to another level. I watched Oscar play in a Jazz Tutorial with Joe Pass in Brisbane Australia in the late 70's and the experience never left me. Yes... this group was his best musical association [ but I do appreciate the comment here about bassist Sam Jones and Bob Durham].
No group held a candle to the Brown, Thigpen, Peterson ensemble in terms of technical perfection. Horace Silver's quintets were fantastic too, but in a different way.
This is a great display of how explosive this trio was. These special arrangements he put together make these tunes their own. They are on fire here. This is a must watch video for jazz fans and ones who are just being introduced to it. To know what swinging is all about - here it is! Thanks for posting!
This was a classic OP trio, and he and Ray Brown had a rare empathy but my favourite trio is the one with Sam Jones and Bobby Durham, a rhythm section unsurpassed in swinging.
Well, I Kind of agree, - except for OP with NHOP and Martin Drew: both as good as it gets. Check out "You look good to me" with Ray AND nhop. and the 85berlin concert. Gerard an Nancy you have taste!
This is just super classy and outstanding musicianship! I love it! Just listening for the first time to this trio. Shame on me for not discovering them earlier... I've had an Ed Thigpen signature Sabian Ride cymbal for many years and it was only a few months ago that I looked up who he was. Never getting rid of that cymbal.
It's crazy that that was over 90 years ago and you can still play the exact things he's playing on the same instrument. It's hard to imagine the man in black and white is real and was really playing this, but the piano he is using to play such beautiful things is the same 80 something keys that exist in nearly every home in North America and with time anyone could do 'that' on your own piano. That's wild
Oscar Peterson - piano era Canadense ! E como era difícil e caro conseguir comprar um disco LP desde gênio do Jazz. Só havia uma casa, no Rio de Janeiro, as Lojas Palermo, de saudosa memória. Ficava no Largo do Tabuleiro da Baiana, ponto central do bonde. Hoje é o Ed. Central e o Largo da Carioca, no centro do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
God must have loved Mr Peterson very much! He was doubly gifted both in classical and jazz and Mr Peterson worked very hard developing those gifts. Boy! Look and listen to the end result!
@@LMatters1 Geeeez . . . you petty people always let _'religious people talkin bullshit'_ hurt your feelings to point where the subject matter, matters not. Take a break from scrolling feeds to see what you can be mad at and just enjoy what you're watching. Unless that's your thing . . . . I mean, if that's your thing then . . . . less power to you. Scroll on, mad man. Scroll on.
To LMatters1: sounds like you’re having a crisis of faith. When one listens to this music and its performers it proves to us that there is a God, and he must love us to allow us to enjoy this music while we’re on the Earth. You don’t think that man is capable of playing like this on his own do you? What we’re listening to is a gift from God. Like all of us sinners you need prayer in order to open your eyes, ears and heart, I’m sure many of us will pray for you. May God bless you and yours.
tipofelice to say that anyone except Oscar Peterson is responsible for Oscar’s skill and musical ability is an insult to Oscar. It’s such a shame when musicians who put in thousands of hours to sound the way they do are spoken about in this way. Whether you believe in God or not, it is wrong to say that God is the only reason that Oscar was a great musician. Please do us all a favor and fuck off
Someday My Prince Will Come Maria 4:53 You Look Good to Me 8:59 Tonight 14:30 Goodbye 17:53 Golden Striker 24:55 Well I've listened to this recording a few times and I simply can't believe it. Here's the encore: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tCrrZ1NnCuM.html Thank you - send more.
Here's a good one for you. I'm a born and raised Torontonian, U of T Alumni, (1980), no stranger to jazz and the Coda music store,.. But l had no idea that Oscar was Canadian. Trust me, this is not something that the average kid would know
I heard him live at the Barbican Hall in London in 1984 with Nils Henning Orsted Pedersen and Martin Drew. Sadly they are all gone now. One of the greats for sure. I love his composition "Hymn To Freedom". Canada's greatest ever musician.
The83rdTrombonist Ed was not only a very close friend, he stayed with us a dozen times & considered me his other son. We performed together and talked music & life. And musical time came up in our conversation. He and Ray Brown used to practice time in their hotel rooms. The truth is, they all agreed where the time was and it was on the forward part of the beat...not on, not behind. So, naturally, when they really got going, the time could increase. Oscar was a master leader. Had he not wanted this, Ed never would have stayed around until 1965, when he and Ray left the group.
@Robert fray Yes, Ray Price (I never met him) is a fantastic drummer. Love his work on the two LPs from 1970. Very interesting. I'm guessing once Ray Brown left the band in '65, nobody stood up to Oscar as much. But sounds like Price did. What part of the world does he live? East or West coast?
