Oscar Peterson: the Great Legend of Jazz, His Virtuosity and the Illness that Sat Him on the Piano, From Childhood to the Last Day

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In the backstage of music, which so many legends keep, it is said that producer Norman Granz, manager of artists and great promoter of jazz activity in the middle of the last century, had to turn in “u” the driver of a taxi so as not to miss one of the most prized gems of the music of those days, Oscar Peterson, of whom this Friday is commemorated the centenary of his birth. The anecdote underwent changes with the years but, in its essence, it i…

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Johannes Kunz presents a tribute to Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson with "Portrait of a Jazz Legend" and dreams of a new jazz festival in Vienna.