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Oscar Peterson

Jazz pianist · 1925-2007

Oscar Peterson
Tom Marcello Webster, New York, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

Out of Montreal's Little Burgundy, one of the fastest and most recorded pianists in jazz.

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Life story

  1. August 15, 1925 · Montreal
    Born in Little Burgundy, Montreal, to immigrants from the West Indies
  2. September 18, 1949 · New York
    Carnegie Hall debut at a Jazz at the Philharmonic concert
  3. 1953 · New York
    Formed the trio with Ray Brown and Herb Ellis
  4. 1962 · Toronto
    Wrote Hymn to Freedom, which became a civil rights anthem
  5. 1964 · Toronto
    Composed the Canadiana Suite
  6. December 23, 2007 · Mississauga, Ontario
    Died at Mississauga

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