In the video series ‘Oscar Peterson: The Legacy,’ contemporary Canadian musicians like Yama Laurent, Taurey Butler, Robi Botos and Dave Young explain how Peterson influenced their own musical journeys ...

Oscar Peterson, whose early talent, speedy fingers and musical genius made him one of the world's best known jazz pianists, has died. He was 82. By The Associated Press TORONTO — Oscar Peterson, whose ...

As JazzWax readers know, I'm fairly picky about my Oscar Peterson albums. I find the pianist most spectacular when the song choices are spot-on and he's completely in the pocket and swinging. In other ...

If any one player fills a soul to the brim with unbridled joy, Oscar Peterson--his whole 'tude, his smile, his swing--is that grand soul and our grand fortune. Put on any of Peterson's archival ...

Young lions and jazz icons gathered Friday to pay homage to the master, Oscar Peterson, at a Carnegie Hall jazz fest — a mannered and polite affair that seldom soared despite an abundance of ...

REVIEW: Hulu documentary, 'Oscar Peterson: Black + White,' is the definitive chronicle of the genius jazz pianist, showing his journey to greatness and the sacrifice that came with it. The mark of a ...

When the great Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson first toured Jim Crow America, he made a plan, and he stuck to it. Peterson said, “If the only way I was going to make it was to frighten the hell out of ...

Fremantle has acquired international distribution rights to Oscar Peterson: Black and White, the feature-length documentary about the iconic jazz pianist being directed by Barry Avrich. The deal is ...

A 50-year old album by pianist Oscar Peterson and a studio orchestra has been reissued by the German label MPS. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead confesses to having mixed feelings about it. This is FRESH ...

Oscar Peterson, whose early talent, speedy fingers and musical genius made him one of the world's best known jazz pianists, has died. He was 82. Peterson died yesterday (Dec. 23) at his home in the… ...

Oscar Peterson, the man who Duke Ellington called the "Maharajah of the Keyboard," died of kidney failure at his home on Sunday. We remember the legendary jazz pianist with his 1986 recording of "If ...