Montreal Jazz: Oscar Peterson
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Description: Information relating to Oscar Peterson and the history of Jazz in Montreal.
Jazz in Montreal - Oscar Peterson Oscar Peterson was seventeen years old when he joined the Johnny Holmes Orchestra in 1942. The war was swallowing up young men, and Holmes had lost two pianists in quick succession to the army, just as his band was beginning to take off at Victoria Hall. Holmes was still casting around for a new pianist when saxophonist Art Morrow showed up at rehearsal one evening with a nervous black teenager in tow.Young Peterson didn't have any experience working in a big band, though he'd been playing in a student dance band at his high school. Eager to impress Holmes, he unloaded every musical idea and cliché he knew in to the first tune the band asked him to play.
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