gracebinder (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You are right ..reduce to a horse racing

darkmaides (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Oh ok, well ye its a good performance, but i dont like petereson anymore..

danielwills93 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

that comment was supposed to be a reply to your comment ''peterson is a great pianist as i said, but sometimes 2 notes can be more powerful..i guess he's just not my taste anymore..''

darkmaides (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

what?..i only responded to tejerajazz which said tatum and ptereson are the greatest of all time. u got confused i think..

danielwills93 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i understand what you mean. I still think this performance is amazing bt not comparing as such i would listen to a softer (Bill evans) performance just because thats what i like. No offence to either pianists.

tejerajazz (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Oscar Peterson, together with Art Tatum, are the two old grand masters of the jazz piano. Thanks for this video.

JazzzPianist (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

He should win an Oscar for his pianoplaying!

NicholasTam (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Is it possible to talk about at least ONE YouTube video of a jazz master without letting the conversation drop to the level of comparing the titans, and for no reason other than to claim that one is closer to your ideal of jazz than another? I, for one, think it's remarkable that Oscar is able to take tunes by Monk and Evans - two very post-stride pianists - and work them plausibly back into the melodically virtuosic, harmonically unambiguous Art Tatum style.

darkmaides (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

peterson is a great pianist as i said, but sometimes 2 notes can be more powerful..i guess he's just jot my taste anymore..

caudillk (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Bill Evans does some incredible things on this tune, but it is unfair to say that what Oscar is doing is for show. Oscar himself said that he was hearing all of these fast things in his head, so he practiced 8 hours a day in order to build the facility to make what he was hearing on the INSIDE audible for other people. Where Bill Evans' musical soul hears the lush harmonies and singable lines, Peterson hears those scales you're talking about (few if any are simply "chromatic" by the way).