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In this episode I discuss what I believe is the Greatest Solo of All Time. This musician had a massive impact on mine and many others, musical journeys.
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@RickBeato 2 года назад

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@benlee897 2 года назад

Love it brother keep posting videos like this amazing tickling of the key's you are the man..

@KevinKilgorepage 2 года назад

just want to say that "improvisation" is a murky word for me, but this IS a GREAT video to introduce people to a trio that is beyond imagination for most people... SO SOLID. truly great. Perhaps you might do a video on the subject of improv, how it is developed and instituted in playing. I am certain you are aware of the broader signification of the word improvisation but for MANY people they believe it is just inventing on the fly when in reality it is NOT. There is practice and thinking that is CRUCIAL BEFORE ANY improvisation on this level.

@johnnorris1983 2 года назад

I think that this track was OSCAR saying watch me lock the orchestra out by purely music. Quite a feat to achieve. Genius. If you got it.

@kat-601 2 года назад

Rick just "Thank-you" l can more than appreciate your love & knowledge of music. IMO it's 2nd to none. Just love your videos! - Keith Townsend -

@amsterdamassassin 2 года назад

Rick, can you tell me whether this performance was recorded on an album? From which concert was this clip taken?

@gadois8674 2 года назад

Rick, my father was in the audience at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London for this performance. Dad's still alive.

@patrickjordan2233 2 года назад

That's cool👍

@tonytypesalot 2 года назад

Totally jealous of your dad to get to hear that in person. I couldn't be there because I was negative three years old, but still jealous. Lol

@waynesworld7804 2 года назад

Wow, that in itself is amazing.

@fringedwellermccatintyre730 2 года назад

My father in law loved Oscar Peterson. I thought of him during Ricks' show, and was misty-eyed again, to read your comment.

@gadois8674 2 года назад

@@MattsAwesomeStuff Hi Matt, I was 14 at the time, so underage for the club. He's 92 now and rather forgetful. He grinned when I showed him this. Within 5 years of this gig , I had taken him to see Queen, Santana and Bob Marley - the last 2 he was swathed in 'herb' smoke.... "what is that smell?" he enquired, hilarious, especially given his background as a UK Government diplomat, and he still loves Marley.

@bluemichimusic9507 2 года назад

God Rest your father’s soul, Rick. In imparting his love of high-information music to you, he had no idea he’d be impacting MILLIONS of lives in the future. That’s a hell of an achievement for a non-musician.

@RickBeato 2 года назад

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@basicaccounting1644 2 года назад

Couldn't agree more bluemichi. Bless everyone who lets music impact their lives and influence them. I couldn't get through the week if I didn't watch Rick's videos and given we just went into lockdown yesterday there's even more reason to watch these videos. Keep up the great work Rick.

@63kavon 2 года назад

@@RickBeato You're so blessed to have him for a dad. My dad liked Frankie Laine and Tennessee Ford for crying out loud!

@bgrigg07 2 года назад

@@63kavon What is wrong with Tennessee Ford? Or Frankie Laine? Both were seriously talented.

@martinXY 2 года назад

@@63kavon That baritone, though. Just amazing.

@mediahound 7 месяцев назад

My Dad is 85 and loves jazz. His favourite is Oscar Peterson. In 2011 I bought him an iPod and filled it with Oscar and Diana Krall and Michael Buble and Art Tatum and Dave Brubeck and others that I knew he loved. One of the albums I put on the iPod was OP's live recording from 1958 in Vancouver, and while we were listening to it I told him how the recording was found in 2003 and released as an album soon after. He asked me where it was recorded because his father used to take him to the Orpheum Theatre to watch Oscar and his trio. When I looked it up and told him it was August 4th at the Orpheum he told me that he was there that night with his Dad. He was 20 years old. He is sure he can hear his Dad's whistle during the cheering. Thank you for doing this, Rick. Dad now has alzheimer's and music is one of the only things that brings out his passion and excitement. He can't remember what he had for lunch today. Can't even remember his granddaughter's name some days. But he can tell you that's Ray Brown on bass (or in this case Niels Pedersen), and that's Joe Pass on guitar (Barney Kessel), Ed Thigpen on drums. I will play this tribute for him tomorrow ❤

@QuantumBeeWellness Год назад

As a Canadian hailing from Montreal, a huge thank you for recognising this beloved icon (and your Dad for introducing you to his music!)

@cinders302 Месяц назад

I live way the hell out west in AB, and proud to share the same country as that man. What a force!

@jcout25 2 года назад

I've been playing piano for 30 years and I'm not even good enough to get that man his coffee....This really is the greatest solo of all time.

@vonmoose1 2 года назад

You are good enough to get him a coffee. I’m pretty sure.

@kentd4762 Год назад

Your point is taken, but his being absolutely great doesn't take anything away from you. Rejoice in your ability.

@HenryChangDesign 2 месяца назад

I've been playing for 50 years and, like you, I am not good enough to get him his coffee.. Am currently attempting to learn his version of "Summertime" from Mellow Mood. Of course I have to spend hours learning those runs and my poor efforts are garbage compared to his command of the instrument, but it's still satisfying to play on the less complicated parts, because, it's just so fun trying to make it swing hard like he did. He just has so much control, improving at warp speed, and it swings and it's musical. It's mind blowing.

@jonkerrmusic 2 года назад

This is most incendiary, batshit insane playing I have ever seen.

@alex0589 2 года назад

I’m pretty sure that piano either was written off for water damage or caught fire spontaneously after this

@666Eva 2 года назад

I know, right? Some of the patterns are literally mind bending. I need to start doing acid again.

@mtbness5028 2 года назад

🔥😎🎹

@jimyoung9262 2 года назад

Incendiary is the perfect word

@TheChadPad 2 года назад

Incendiary is the PERFECT word for it

@donstor1 Год назад

The musicians in the audience knew what they were witnessing, and how rare it was. Thank you so much from a humble trumpet player. I enjoyed this immensely.

@donaldneill4419 Год назад

I live in Ottawa and walk past his statue near the National Arts Centre all the time. There's good, there's great, there's prodigy, there's genius, and then there's Oscar freakin' Peterson. I made it all the way through Gr 10 Conservatory piano and I have absolutely no illusions about ever being able to come even within a light-year of this kind of amazing playing. It's like nothing else on Earth.

@MarkBlackburnWPG Месяц назад

The simple truth ... so well expressed. Ottawa born and raised myself, so I was hooked at your opening words!

@kennet7837 2 года назад

I came here expecting a guitar solo, but wasn't disappointed.

@blanewilliams5960 2 года назад

Exactly

@roady68 2 года назад

I agree.

@jeffkeni 2 года назад

Count me #3. Only a piano solo can stomp a guitar solo ;)

@BlueDjiin 2 года назад

Same :)

@ratsoup3823 2 года назад

Lol

@paulmarjoram2258 2 года назад

Wow Rick. I was at that gig. An 18 year old kid from out of town. Depressed when I walked in as I’d just missed out on a tea boy’s job at trident studios. Stood at back with my jaw open and feet tapping and after, walked out happy.

@Rectitude4U 2 года назад

Lucky.

@DanielBarberMusic 3 месяца назад

What a blessing! I saw Oscar a few times over the years, but this truly may be one of the best solos of all time.

@kristiparry1833 Год назад

When you see perfection here on earth it overwhelms your soul. Oscar doesn’t seem real, but I’m thankful he is.

@computerbob5407 Год назад

I'm stunned at your musicality, your openness and your straight-ahead personality, Rick. Now that I've landed in your channel, escape appears to be next to impossible. Keep telling the great stories and displaying your many skills. Your loyal audience is in awe.

@squirrelorama 2 года назад

Rick, I cannot express how gratifying it is to see you geeking out to Oscar. I've been arguing for years with anyone who would listen, that Oscar is one of the greatest musicians in the history of our planet, period. Nobody else has ever brought his combination of technical chops, speed, smoothness, but far most importantly, swing. Oscar swung even on the tenderest of ballads. A true GOAT.

@BryanSorensen 2 года назад

You said everything that I wanted to say! Oscar Peterson is a different level of musician.

@eliecanetti 2 года назад

Totally agree. I was lucky enough to grow up on Oscar and saw him play several times. I know Art Tatum. Oscar's hero, was arguably more advanced harmonically, but nobody swung like Oscar. There's a good video with him and Keith Emerson, who might have been the greatest rock keyboardist of all time, but Oscar just embarrasses Emerson with his facility and sense of swing. No dis to Emerson (RIP), but Oscar was definitely the GOAT of jazz piano.

@daldieduckweather5320 2 года назад

@@eliecanetti I like your analysis.

@craigrice007 2 года назад

Think of his mind eyes moving his fingers in flawless coordination.

@RyanMichero 2 года назад

Freaking incredible. I knew Peterson was considered a jazz piano great, but I didn't quite get why until this video. I worked on Pixar's Soul, and when Joe Gardner first steps into the Half Note jazz club he sees an image of Oscar Peterson on the wall. A well deserved place of honor.

@TheNinnyfee 2 года назад

Thank you for the information, I love how dedicated Pixar always is to details like these. ❤❤❤

@brianmessemer2973 2 года назад

Hear, hear 🍻

@JeffRyan_88keys Год назад

Oscar Peterson is nauseatingly good. The amount of talent and knowledge that left us when guys like him and Chick Corea passed away is insane. Thank God for their legacy and all their recorded music.

@thorstambaugh1520 8 месяцев назад

Returned to Forever!

@Dannytyrellstudios 6 месяцев назад

Yup

@edlysne8567 8 месяцев назад

Just a great tribute. Thank you! I saw Oscar and Barney (not sure who was on bass) somewhere around 1978 at Ricks Cafe Americana in Chicago. The most moving music scene I was ever so lucky to be a part of. It was a small club in the Holiday Inn on Lake shore Drive (now gone) and the early show wasn’t even sold out. Maybe 40 to 50 people there. I just walked up and bought a ticket. Oscar just glided thru the music. And he talked to the audience. He was in love with his music and loved sharing it. I went alone after working my construction job in the city. Afterwards a just sat in my pickup not sure how to think about what I just saw. I had seen Barney and Herb before in maybe 77. Barney came and sat with me a friend of mine at our table before the show. What a gentleman he was. He wanted us kids to enjoy ourselves… I think I was 19. What a time to be alive to experience these shows.

@bennyramos1885 4 месяца назад

@edlysne8567 When your eyes and ears witness something like that it takes sometime to process. The feeling afterwards is wishing others could have had the same experience. What an honor it must have been to see him perform in those years...

@MarkBlackburnWPG Месяц назад

EdLysne 8567 -- Thank you for sharing this gem of an anecdote. You convey so much, in so few words. These especially: "Barney came and sat with me a friend of mine at our table before the show. What a gentleman he was. He wanted us kids to enjoy ourselves… I think I was 19. What a time to be alive to experience these shows."

@TridentCapital 2 года назад

I love how this trio of incredibly talented musicians look like they are just mid-level managers in the accounting department at some gigantic corporation.

@RickBeato 2 года назад

Haha!!!

@brorob2582 2 года назад

To be fair, some mid level managers have better skills than those called directors 😀

@karlschmied6218 2 года назад

Oscar's sweat prevented the piano from catching fire.

@vicke2238 2 года назад

So true

@DucksUpDogsDownCatsSlide 2 года назад

lol

@patkelly2693 2 года назад

That is funny😂

@langerking 2 года назад

Hilarious!

@grahamlyons8522 2 года назад

It's the opposite. It is amazing that the piano did NOT catch fire considering the heat of his music directed at a piano covered in the holy oil of Oscars' sweat.

@cpjworrall Год назад

I remember going to an Oscar Petersen concert in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh in 1975. I had a seat just behind his piano on the stage. It was totally amazing. Thank you RB for bringing back all those memories. Just great❤

@wyattyoung705 Год назад

Wish I could’ve been there, as someone born in the early 2000s, this type of music just barely exists anymore… everything nowadays is hiphop and auto-tuned pop. While I have some admiration for a good amount of hiphop artists, old school rock, jazz, blues, etc. will never be beaten in my opinion

@judithcosta3302 Год назад

Rick, I am so grateful for your insightful inspiration on this video and many others that I have watched this year. My father was a jazz pianist who was self-taught. He had a phenomenal ‘ear’ too. In 1955 we moved to Santa Monica to follow his dream…unfortunately the music business was hard while raising a family and my parents split up. He formed a trio still hoping to get discovered and played music in small clubs in the Pacific Northwest. He passed at an early age of 51. I wish he had been able to get his music recorded 😢 thinking of him this holiday season. 💝 My love of jazz and all kinds of music still plays on in my heart!!! Thank you so much.

@PianoManPaul 2 года назад

I'm a professional piano player for almost 40 years, proudly Canadian, whose jaw still hits the floor every time I see or hear Oscar Peterson. There will never again be anyone with that kind of surgical viscosity in front of any piano. Greatest of all time INDEED!!

@canadianroot 2 года назад

I'm a professional Canadian, and just so happy to have had my head and heart filled with Oscar's music over the years. "Surgical viscosity". Brilliant. I remember the first time I heard Oscar play, and I thought he had four hands.

@5000rgb 2 года назад

He plays like water flowing or wind blowing. So natural and effortless.

@jonlavigne3270 2 года назад

"Let's play blues." "Sure, what style?" "All of them." [starts]

@TheNinnyfee 2 года назад

Or just, "What style?" - "Yes."

@panameadeplm 2 года назад

remember when it used to be embarrassing and a sign of low intelligence when you just repeated what someone else said as if you came up with it? obviously you don't

@DoctorDave5 2 года назад

@@panameadeplm why are you here?

@ts4gv 2 года назад

@@panameadeplm it’s impressive that you somehow wrote the worst comment in this thread

@panameadeplm 2 года назад

@@ts4gv what's so bad about it?

@birgitbofarull4410 10 месяцев назад

This is sheer joy and flow! Today is my father's birthday. He would have been 96 today. He was a very accomplished musician from Barcelona who had a great international career as a bandleader. His favourite pianists were Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans. As I remember my father and his passing, while I sang Jobim's Felicidade in his last breaths, I share a heavenly connection with him now with this video, which I am sure he would have absolutely adored. Thank you Rick for all your videos and your enthusiasm to share the great music, no matter what genre. To quote my father: I like all music, as long as it's good.

@douglascoleman1252 Год назад

My father, after leaving the RAF following WW II, attended McGill University, graduating with an MD degree. He told me about spending his evenings at The Alberta Lounge, where every night he listened to Oscar Peterson. Although he listened primarily to classical music records when we were kids he often spoke about Oscar and listened to Oscar records after a few drinks, often with his eyes closed, humming tunelessly as he did. I heard this piece then, often, but had forgotten about it…for some reason. Thank you for the reminder.

@richgates3480 2 года назад

When you see a title of "The Greatest Solo of All Time," you immediately think - OK, clickbait for sure. You'd think - oh it'll be good, but the greatest - ever? And then you watch the video. And you think to yourself, If there IS such a thing as The Greatest Solo of All Time, this just might be it. I was just flabbergasted. I've never seen anyone play the piano like that. The amount of complexity, precision and soul in this performance is off the charts. And I hate to say it, but I had never heard of Oscar Peterson before! Well, I have now! Amazing.

@ronbock8291 2 года назад

There are 2 undisputed post-mid-century masters of the piano, and they’re both from Canada: Oscar Peterson and Glenn Gould. In their own unique ways, they both radically re-imagined what piano playing could be. And they were both astonishing technical masters to boot.

@IvanTerreroDDS 2 года назад

Never.heard.of Oscar Peterson? Really?

@JoeIsOut2lunch 2 года назад

Canada represents! There’s a statue of him and his piano at the national arts of canada in Ottawa. Not like brings me any closer to playing like that LOL

@PIDtoolbox 2 года назад

Agreed 100%!

@jeffrytrefry2469 2 года назад

Oscar, like Glenn Gould and bassist James Jamerson "heard" counter melodies in their heads as they played. Columbia had great difficulty recording Gould, as he hummed counter melodies to the great Bach pieces that made him immortal. And I insist that Motown's James Jamerson was hearing cross melodies as Jamerson was taking compositions to #1! Jack Ashford alerted me to this fact.

@JamesZotaBaker 2 года назад

I was blessed to see Oscar Peterson with Joe Pass and Ella Fitzgerald at the Music Center in Los Angeles when I was 16 years old (1980) I drove my self there in my 66 Mustang, wearing a suit. Needless to say, I was completely blown away. Great post Rick!

@penultimatename6677 2 года назад

You are beyond lucky. Even more so to recognize, as a young kid, how brilliant they were. I am almost certain if so lucky I would have missed the significance of the performance.

@Bassman2353 2 года назад

One of my favorite records (also on CD) is "Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson" which includes Joe Pass (Martin Drew and Dave Young as rhythm section). Just fabulous music - happy and mind-bogglingly brilliant.

@alanshepherd4304 2 года назад

Wow, so envious!! Ella Fitzgerald is my absolute favourite female singer EVER!! She's the Beatles of the Jazz world!!!😂😂🇬🇧

@terry4128 2 года назад

What a cool post, James! Love it!

@Daniel-Strain 2 года назад

Wow, what a treat!

@davidjooste5788 10 месяцев назад

Dam dude that's worth a ten minute standing ovation. I've enjoyed OP's music since my early hard rock twenties but have never heard this. Awesome. Love your dedication to your Dad. Respect.

@alejandroestevez876 11 месяцев назад

That solo is just insane! Also, thank you Rick for the content you put out, it is so so inspiring 🙏🏻 RU-vid needs more of this!

@KarlRKaiser 2 года назад

Peterson is one of those few musicians who are so amazing that if he hadn't lived you would not think any human could possibly be that good.

@peterintoronto6472 2 года назад

This is a beautiful homage, both to Peterson and to your father. It is part of the secret of becoming an elder yourself. Thank you for this, it is saturated in joy and love.

@jrb123able 2 года назад

Totally agree!

@Simon_Said 2 года назад

What an astoundingly beautiful comment

@brianmessemer2973 2 года назад

This.☝️ I wanted to say something like this 👏👏👏

@jeannemacaluso162 2 года назад

Lovely sentiment.

@pdxfun4888 7 месяцев назад

No matter the style of music, Rick explains whats happening, drops some theory and always brings the real joy in the whole vibe. Rick is knowledgeable and generous in his sharing his vast knowledge . He is a treasure. Thank you Rick B!

@ozzytoad78 6 месяцев назад

UNBELIEVABLE!!! That is the most amazing performance that I've ever seen. I've never seen anyone play piano like that. You just turned me into a jazz fan ❤

@DanielBarberMusic 3 месяца назад

Welcome!

@travisjgood02 2 года назад

This is why I love this channel. I never knew about these guys. This isn’t something I would search for. No computers of studio effects. Nothing but raw talent.

@Blackd0nuts 2 года назад

Same I love this channel! Not only it's not something we would search for, but you wouldn't even know what to search for to begin with!

@JohnJesus 2 года назад

That's not talent... that is thousands upon thousands of hours of dedication to the instrument

@dwightropp3014 2 года назад

@@JohnJesus - Combined with talent!

@JohnJesus 2 года назад

@@dwightropp3014 Sure - but what I mean is that talent alone cannot bring a musician to this level. He started pretty young, at 5 years old, father also a musician. I've taught a few kids that, one could say, were talented, they developed faster, had a natural ability to play the guitar superior to other kids. But that talent alone isn't enough. So many talented kids do not nurture their gift and lose the potential they have. What I meant with my comment is to make it clear that it is only hard work, lots of dedication and discipline, that will make a musician exceptional. So that people do not think they were born with that ability -- they worked their asses off for the skill they have. Talent is a spark. But only persistence and dedication will make a blazing fire!

@dwightropp3014 2 года назад

@@JohnJesus - Without a doubt! Right on, sir!!

@eightbars1 2 года назад

Oscar was also one of the nicest guys ever. My dad played with him a few times, and I got to hang with them. I sat on his lap one time and asked why his skin was so dark. He told me it was just the way he grew up. I asked him if he thought my skin would turn that dark and he laughed and told me that he didn't think so. I was so disappointed! My dad was Red Kelly, one of the greatest jazz/swing bass players.

@cheneyrobert 2 года назад

😎👍🏻🥂

@bonnieferrie6070 2 года назад

Red Kelly 👍. And I thought I had a lucky childhood because my Dad played these records.

@markbryan3952 2 года назад

I met your dad at his club in Tacoma not long before he passed. He inspired me to have faith in the future of jazz, and to become a better bass player.

@josephmiller997 2 года назад

LOL! Awesome!

@eightbars1 2 года назад

@@markbryan3952 I'm very glad to hear that. He was an inspiration to us all. Well, all who knew him. And man, could he swing! He was the best. Give a listen to "Random Riff" off Stan Kenton' live at the Tropicana in Vegas album. Actually, listen to the whole album. He did a gag song that even David Bowie covered, called "You, and I, and George". There is a back story that it was written by "a successful songwriter who woke up with a terrible hangover and decided no one listens to the words of songs anyways, so he wrote this". The reality was dad wrote that song and they really did use it to give the trumpet players a rest. I'll try to put it here

@curtisbrown3847 Год назад

Omg! That was beautiful, amazing and spectacular all at once! Truly epic!! Thank you so much for sharing that Rick and what a wonderful tribute to your dad 🙂

@sopanmcfadden276 Год назад

It's so smooth yet everything jumps out. Phenomenal

@briane2520 2 года назад

I left to run some errands, and ended up staying in the parking lot when the notification for this video came up. I watched the video and drove home, because I forgot why I left after watching this.

@allisonkimball3730 2 года назад

Oh, my flipping goodness!! I'm totally floored. That was some of, if not THE, best musicianship I've ever heard in my life! My dad is Bobby Kimball, the original singer of Toto. He used to play one little part of this song that he told me his mom, Ruby Kimball, used to always play him while she was teaching him to play boogie woogie piano as a child. ( 6:37 and 6:49 ) I've never heard it anywhere else before and was under the impression that my grandmother had made it up herself. Now I know who influenced part of her playing that helped shape my father's career in music. What a special moment for me to find this artist and particular performance. Thank you so much, Rick Beato for making this video!! Allison Kimball

@yurei8 2 года назад

❤

@DeeEllEff 2 года назад

Rewatched this section, and was even more amazed: Rick shows how Oscar plays boogie-woogie with his left hand, while also playing a blues w/ his right. THEN he improvises his solo over all of that-so how is that possible without having (at least) three separate hands? I keep watching Rick’s video and I still can’t answer that question!

@ronh.798 2 года назад

Allison, your father's vocals were amazing! Especially the songs Mama and White Sister. He really seemed to sing from the heart and deep inside. His work is much appreciated.

@lecturehc 2 года назад

Your dad was the greatest singer Toto ever had and his time in the band was during their prime for sure.

@baneverything5580 2 года назад

That`s awesome! Your dad was a huge part of the soundtrack of my life growing up in the 1970s-80s. I didn`t realize he`s from Louisiana until recently. His voice always amazed me.

@lelandallen 11 месяцев назад

Great tribute. I’m glad you commented on Barbie and NHOP’s expressions. They were at the tops of their professions, and they both look like they’re thinking “I’m the luckiest SOB ever to get to play with this guy!” I’ve watched that video a million times and it never gets old

@guthrie_1 9 месяцев назад

Who is Barbie?

@neoone5942 Год назад

Thank you for this video and thank them for playing that night. The world needs human being loving and playing music like you all!!!

@SMETSYSGNIMIT Год назад

Best of all time. My father was an amazing jazz pianist who died 20 years ago. He knew Oscar and once told me that the man was from another world and that God would never make another Oscar. So true.

@feratgoogle 2 года назад

This is how listening to music should be taught, Rick.

@a.s.2426 2 года назад

I hope not. Good video, but being so attuned to the technical would erase nearly everything of importance from the experience.

@roninyamabushi4613 6 месяцев назад

Thank you, Rick, for providing great musical content from intriguing perspectives. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

@keithdiceman3449 Год назад

Thank you Rick. I never would have seen this. Awesome! Thank you.

@alansturgess1324 2 года назад

Normally I'm infuriated by talk-overs during a musical performance but not here. Rick,s levels of knowledge, appreciation, and sheer enthusiasm raise this to a whole new level.

@JStephs1950 2 года назад

I'm of similar mind about talk-over, but when, as here, they're succinct, educated, and without self-aggrandizing self-reference, they do indeed add to the video. Makes for a perfect reaction presentation.

@JStephs1950 2 года назад

@@imtheonevanhalen1557 You seem to be infuriated over a RU-vid post. Curious.

@Mrmikey0909 2 года назад

@@imtheonevanhalen1557 ruok?

@clarenceferguson3287 2 года назад

Amen!

@seanpatrick7019 2 года назад

My brother died a few years ago from sepsis he got from a puncture wound while gardening. It was tragic. I miss him. He was a virtuoso violinist and guitarist. He loved all kinds of music. Since we were kids we listened and he guided me through what we were hearing. He was a blast to hang out with. It was all about music. This channel is great. You must be a blast to hang out with and dig music with your friends.

@ericjacobsen6901 2 года назад

I wish your brother and Rick Beato had a chance to hang out. I would buy the drinks and just listen.

@debbiedogs1 2 года назад

So sorry, that was indeed tragic.

@Redhass 2 года назад

Sorry. What is your brother's name, Sean?

@thomasgeare6770 7 месяцев назад

I really appreciate your take on all of these cuts, teaching as you go, and showing us the nuances that you see.

@seth6string 11 месяцев назад

It's a thrill to follow your enthusiasm for so many genres of music. Coming from hard rock and metal myself, lately obsessed with orchestral stuff, but I love so many other styles too. Your channel is a gem.

@BrettBaker66 2 года назад

The piano probably refused to play for anyone else after that.

@jeannemacaluso162 2 года назад

🤣😂🤣😂 Maybe couldn’t?

@yuothineyesasian 2 года назад

It made a sultry moan and then smoked a cigarette.

@Duh6666666 2 года назад

The next player was most definitely a step down!

@furry1975 2 года назад

Kind of hard to play a piano after spontaneous combustion... Too much kinetic energy to avoid that fate.

@kimiannone1524 2 года назад

At the beginning of the Oscar Peterson documentary that you can see on RU-vid, the Canadian jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall says "Every time I see him, I don't know what to say. It's, like, I open my mouth and my brains fall out."

@josephmiller997 2 года назад

That's a killer guote!

@ericwells4787 2 года назад

LOLOLOLOLOLOLO!!!

@deanmasini9768 2 года назад

Truly one of my favorite things in life is to read or hear the way a master musician pay homage to another. They come up with things, and say things that blow my mind in the most joyful way.

@jonathanirvin2201 Месяц назад

Rick, your work here will be an archive for the ages! Thank you so very much for giving this and all of your work on this channel! I'll be signing up!

@TheSapanone Год назад

Thank you for introducing this! Very spectacular. I could not stop watching and listening till the end.

@ronaldsimonet9645 2 года назад

When I saw the title of this video "The Greatest Solo of All Time" I thought, 'well that's very subjective". After seeing the video, I wholeheartedly agree with the title.

@michaelw.4434 2 года назад

Ditto Brother!!!🤣🤣Whew!!!

@gunhed60 2 года назад

I was a little worried myself, but Oscar Peterson was such an amazing talent. I have to agree with Rick and you on this one.

@nyarlathotep13 2 года назад

Brown 👃 comment

@sockmonkey22 2 года назад

“Take THAT Liberace!”

@johnberkley6942 2 года назад

@@sockmonkey22 Hilarious.

@jamesaitchison9478 2 года назад

Jeezo...what a talent on Piano this man is, he plays like a man possessed. The trio are fantastic together and really put on a show for the audience. Kudos to your Father for having such great taste in music and then passing it on to you, and thank you for showing us mere mortals such God-like abilities, it truly is just sublime. Great video Rick 👍

@mr.marxmusic Год назад

Yes - alltime favourite! Oscar makes the hardest chops look almost effortless...haven´t heard a piano player getting such a smooth tone out of the highest register - his runs up there sound like the sweeetest pearls on a string. Much love Rick!

@aliciamorganlight829 11 месяцев назад

I am SO grateful not only for you, Rick, but just think about how appreciative we are of this recording and all who have been able to experience this phenomenal genius.

@yeahno.... 2 года назад

My mum and dad were at that gig! My father talked about it right up to his death in 2019

@brianmessemer2973 2 года назад

You don't say!!! Wow that's Wonderful. Rick's channel bringing those who were actually there (and their families) back together. What a great thing RU-vid is sometimes. What you said - that he talked about it for the rest of his life - makes me so happy. Wow wow wow. Thank you for sharing this story

@dzd2371 2 года назад

I don't think a sane person who doesn't just hate things for hate's sake couldn't walk out of that without a lasting impression of awe.

@squirrelorama 2 года назад

I would be doing the same had I been there... That's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for any audience member! My very first live music concert i went to see (I was 12 years old) was Dizzy Gillespie and his band playing at Cortland State. I still wax philosophic about the transcendent 30 minute drum solo his son played.....just incredible. My second concert was Woody Herman's 50th Anniversary Tour. Guess I was a weird teenager!!

@holly52ful 2 года назад

What a coincidence?? One in a million!!

@Gabrielm624 2 года назад

That’s insane man! RIP to your father.

@sbradley34 2 года назад

Oscar Peterson, my fellow Montrealer and inducted into the Order of Canada in 1972 and update to Companion in 1984. The best jazz pianists that ever lived. Thank you for sharing this.

@ethanzames7915 2 года назад

@@skierpage A perfect encapsulation of the two players, thank you!

@darrellbarnes2096 2 дня назад

My father use to go to record store when I was a kid also. I was introduced to funk, crooner, jazz disco to early 80s rb, David Bowie, Queen!! My mother introduced me to musicals..Godspell, My Fair Lady, Fiddler On The Roof etc. This is a gift that kept on giving!!

@shelleyking8450 Год назад

Oscar was phenomenal! Definitely a musician beyond talent, his ability was nearly impossible to describe

@KorbinX 2 года назад

The sweat dripping off him has more musical talent than 99.9999% of today's top 40. Crazy talented.

@charlie-obrien 2 года назад

If only they would've bottled it.

@rajamcraja 2 года назад

his sweating was more articulated than my playing

@aquilino1984 2 года назад

Make that a 100

@arsal1988 2 года назад

Absolutely 100%

@nikisrb 2 года назад

That percentage when it comes to the number 40 makes no sense lmao

@stevebarthelmes8979 2 года назад

Watching Rick enjoy music makes me very happy.

@john-giovannicorda3456 2 года назад

Same here. Rick gets in there to share the excitement with his friends. It is a happy feeling, yes.

@fredsavage4925 2 месяца назад

Quick-twitch muscle control and the ability to lightning rod the power of the entire universe is what makes Oscar and musicians like him a magnet.

@thorenjohn Год назад

Thank you for educating us, Rick. Wonderful work!

@degarmotate152 2 года назад

This is why you listen to everything as a musician. There is so much to appreciate if you just drop your pretense and dig in. Amazing talent, truly virtuosoistic.

@BillPeschel 2 года назад

Andy Partridge of XTC, back when they were a punk band, had to hide their love of more complex music (I think like Rachiminoff) because the punters would have killed them.

@brianmessemer2973 2 года назад

Exactly. Rick Beato, in an edited and produced video no less, simply saying "listen to this!" and going back after we just already heard it, and playing it again. It's about really listening. Listening with all your concentration and appreciation for the art unfolding. This is a great video essay by Rick on the importance of listening.

@danielaupperle 2 года назад

Well said

@saltydog888 2 года назад

For me and don’t bag me it’s Herb Albert to Mozart to AC/DC. I’ll listen and appreciate any good music

@moseyalong1 2 года назад

About 1961 I went to an Oscar Peterson trio concert in Eugene, Ore. on a Thursday evening. I, then, drove to Portland Ore. on Friday night to see Oscar and his trio again. There were no repeated tunes in the 2 concerts and I never heard the same riff twice. He was, just, an astonishing musician.

@ronaldpuso945 2 года назад

I play piano and live in Eugene.

@benlee897 2 года назад

Oscar with Ray and Ed all incredible talents .. Oscar was exceptional and stole the show tickling those keys was effortless and perfection simply the best..

@thebirdartistscottage 2 года назад

You are blessed to have such a memory. Damn.

@mauricerogerson5825 6 месяцев назад

Rick, this the most heartfelt video I've yet seen from you. When you spoke of the trio's passing, by year, I started tearing up. I am still rocked by your presentation of the group. I sit here, in awe, of the skills of the musicians presented here. I also stand in awe of YOUR skills in demonstrating what these fine folks contributed with your own musical skills...I just play some guitar and sing some lyrics, but...the people we all love to listen to, have TALENT, which I lack.

@gr8n10city3 Год назад

What an entertaining video! While I played through high school and college, I’ve never heard anyone analyze music and show appreciation for musicians the way you do here. I am truly glad these men and their music live on in your channel to inspire our future generations. Thank you.

@francisseidel8014 Год назад

Oscar Peterson was the first person that Keyboard magazine put in their lifetime achievement award because he kept winning the annual awards every year in the 70s and 80s. He just blew everyone away. Excellent call!

@lyonellaverde3135 2 года назад

If you were merely showcasing great and often forgotten music, that would be enough. But you making music aceessible to a wider audience--that takes the cake!

@geedoctor Год назад

I have watched this video so many times. I always love the 'air bass' you do when 'they're right on it'.

@natanapesya2103 Год назад

Every time I watch one of your videos, I gain more respect for you and your musicianship.

@Evrett 2 года назад

Piano as an instrument really isn’t appreciated enough in the rock work. It really adds a special quality to the music

@ArgoBeats 2 года назад

One of the hardest instruments to play, for sure.

@AbbeyOnAtkins 2 года назад

Yes, Emerson lake & Palmer, first album!

@chrisman3965 2 года назад

Ben Folds....amazing modern rock pianist.

@johnobrien1528 2 года назад

99% of all rock songs were written on a piano or acoustic guitar. Artists love the piano because it’s linear, it flows easier and you’re writing the melody lines and bass lines at the same time.

@cwize 2 года назад

@@nibla17 this.

@lowkeylunatic 2 года назад

"You don't need drums when you swing that hard." True. In this instance, they are playing stuff so complex that adding drums would actually muddy the waters imo.

@davidgomersall7185 2 года назад

Drummer here. I agree wholeheartedly with this statement

@miguelbrito8460 2 года назад

The white noise on the recording kinda sounds like brushes on the snare so im good with it

@somebloke13 2 года назад

I thought Muddy Waters was a blues man 🤔😂

@lowkeylunatic 2 года назад

@@somebloke13 so is Eddie Clearwater 😜🤣

@douglasnewman6668 2 года назад

I agree, you don't really need drums, but being a drummer I wouldn't mind to see if it could be done tastefully. It could be very difficult to stay out of his way though, and you certainly hear the piano better without drums, I have this feeling though, that, if done carefully the tune would swing even harder (if that's possible).

@ClintZold Год назад

Your enthusiasm only makes this even better. Have only watched a few of your videos so far, but I'm an instant fan. What great content and such a variety! God bless ya, Rick!

@MarkBlackburnWPG Месяц назад

You put your finger on it. And it is such an 'informed' enthusiasm. Rick Beato is a great musician in his own right. And the best interviewer EVER, we can all agree!

@karlhilton6641 Год назад

Your reaction to particularly tasty music nuggets invigorates me every time. I know that feeling really good. Realizing the performer has completely captivated your attention and at some point you realize that no matter what you do as a listener to compensate for that subversion is met with a more and more explicit musical expression of "You'll never peg me down, I perform on a level beyond natural law" The type of piece that on it's 100th playthrough you finally realize a new layer of mathematical beauty. It's the type of music that intimidates everyone and inspires the virtuosos of the future. Anyway that's the feeling I get for an instant when you let that energy out. Love ya Rick

@SusanHopkinson 2 года назад

Oscar Peterson lived down the street from us in Mississauga, a suburb West of Toronto, in the 1970s. He was a very down to earth and quiet person and although my mother told me he was a well-known musician I had no idea how great he was until I was much older.

@jpsned Год назад

"The Vocal Stylings of Oscar Peterson" shows off his singing voice. He sounds like a mellow Nat King Cole.

@jamesstewart5371 Год назад

Which street did he live on?

@Lucia-sy7le Год назад

He was at our college graduation in 1983 in Evanston, IL

@sinatralala Год назад

Great Nat King Cole observation. Oscar rarely sang because he sounded too much like his good friend, Nat King Cole.

@nathanbell6962 Год назад

I love musicians like that. Not the Superstar musicians

@Rutger2502 2 года назад

I love how you're sitting there as a guy who's playing a record for a friend and is a bit insecure about whether his friend will like it or not.

@undericesinger 2 года назад

Lol you can feel the energy when they don't like it. Lol

@joco2826 2 года назад

@@undericesinger what?

@joco2826 2 года назад

Huh?

@undericesinger 2 года назад

@@joco2826 You can tell by their body language and energy when a friend doesn't like music that you show them.

@MychalSims 6 месяцев назад

Truly, an incredible performance, such amazing talent, hard to comprehend what I just witnessed, thank you!

@jeffkilgore6320 Год назад

The greatest solo I’ve ever heard is Peterson’s trio playing Tricotism live in Chicago in 1961. At the 8:00 mark and on, you can hear all three musicians yelling percussives in time. It’s my favorite by far.

@Joshualbm 2 года назад

Oscar was such a sophisticated, elegant man who was as kind and gentle as you could imagine. A true genius of our age.

@dustchip8060 2 года назад

I'm still wondering how that piano kept up with Oscar.

@barrettdc1 2 года назад

Oscar is simply phenomenal. However, the Piano has existed for a very long time, and there are classical composers that are very good! Absolutely amazing composers writing classics hundreds of years ago. This gentlemen Oscar would have blown their minds with his concepts. I don't even know where my comment is trying to go but I love the piano!!! and music!!!

@markdansky 2 года назад

He played the Bosendörfer Imperial Grand piano. Amazingly fluid perfectly balanced and light Renner action. There is nothing that it can't do when you ask it to respond if you have a great tech.

@westonknight7474 2 года назад

Exactly 😲🤔

@Livinghighandwise 2 года назад

Actually it didn't. If you listen closely you can hear the piano start to go muddy when he is riffing down the the scale near the middle of the video. That is the action not keeping up with his playing.

@RobotechLegos 2 года назад

Lol “Ah crap” - every piano in the vicinity of Oscar

@donnybeal2135 5 месяцев назад

I absolutely love how many different musicians you have introduced me to through your videos! Thank you

@danielb4560 Год назад

It's amazing you can even deconstruct what they are playing. That's a fantastic ability in itself. Keep up the good work.

@riffmaker247 2 года назад

That’s the best video I’ve ever seen. Metal head at heart here, but I went to another place with Rick. You get animated like I do when hearing music. Thank you Rick for all you do

@MarkBlackburnWPG Месяц назад

The simple truth. And so well expressed -- in so few words. Thank you, RiffMaker247.

@donready119 2 года назад

Canada lost a treasure when he died. I heard an interview where he talked about wanting to be a musician but his dad was in opposition. Dad worked on the railroad and wanted him to get a good job. He finally relented but said you can't be a jazz pianist unless you are the world's best. Mission accomplished.

@bigbasil1908 Год назад

That was quite something. Never seen or heard it before. Thankyou for allowing me to see and hear it.

@allenw5255 Год назад

Amazing. Thank you for sharing this with me.

@milesian1 2 года назад

I love that Rick can listen to current heavy metal on Spotify and then reference jazz greats like NHØP and Oscar Peterson in a video just a while later.

@daveg4495 2 года назад

Oscar's expression while playing says it all, he's in another world. We're just lucky to see this.

@ottovangogh9477 Год назад

This solo was caught on camera. And with excellence. Amazing. 🎹🎹🎹

@victorherz9162 Год назад

There are not so many songs nailing a smile in your face. This and Ricks comments is one of it! Thank you.

@jussihamalainen7692 2 года назад

Me when clicking on this video: "Ok, this better be good". Five minutes later:"Oh,it is."

@surveil3548 2 года назад

yeah I was like he is about to claim it is some clapton solo or whatever lmao

@awboat 2 года назад

And then going back and watching a second time. Damn

@glenrotchin5523 2 года назад

Greetings from Montreal Rick, Oscar’s hometown, where he is worshipped. In fact, There’s a huge building sized mural of Oscar in his birth neighborhood of Little Burgundy, and also a mural of his sister revered piano teacher Daisy Peterson Sweeney.

@danausten1046 2 года назад

Fantastic Rick, please keep this outstanding work up. My favourite all round keyboardist was Keith Emerson who was greatly influenced by Oscar, especially the left hand. I have sat at Emerson’s famous rig with the massive Moog, sadly I can’t play! I have seen many greats at Ronnie Scott’s in Soho London, with a max capacity of 250. Lovely comments about your dad! 🎹🙏

@Dave-nm3xc Год назад

That is some crazy playing there! Absolutely legendary!

@chat_on_discord Год назад

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@SportAndHealthApp 5 месяцев назад

I saw him live at the Albert Hall. I have no idea how anyone can get that good - it was beyond belief. Great videos Rick. Love ya !

@alistairwallace77 2 года назад

I really love how this video is kind of just a valentine to his dad. I hope when I’m dead and gone my son remembers me with half that affection :)

@Missedapex 2 года назад

During this time of apathy, indifference, and disfunction, it is really great to see an enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and talented musician sharing his love of such a beautiful jazz icon. The Bebop Era spawned some of the greatest talents and it's still awe inspiring to see and hear them perform. Thank you.