All due respect to the formidable pianist, dead at age 82 — Oscar Peterson’s jazz has never been my personal cup of tea. A consolidator and conservator rather than a explorer and originator, the man mastered jazz conventions established by the generation before him, and found joy in spinning endless variations that celebrated rather than questioned them.
Archives for December 2007
Glance back: J-B-J 2007 events
Notable happenings and turning points:
2007 favorites/gift ideas
Gifts for the listener who’s heard everything… for your jazz-beyond-jazz companeros . . . for yourself . . .