OMG!! Oscar Peterson had to be the ultimate Jazz pianist. What a loss, I'm in total shock. He was the first Jazz pianist I ever listened to. He was much of the inspiration that kept me taking piano lessons, when my 17 and 18 year old friends thought the piano was for sissies.

I may have told this story in the past but at 17 years old when I worked for local middle of the road radio station WPRO-FM as an announcer. Sometimes I worked the graveyard shift and always veered off the play list and would place at least 1 or 2 Oscar tunes on air per hour. One of the albums was a "Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra." Short story is one morning about 2 I got a call from the program director telling me he knew the play lists and Oscar's music was not programmed to be played as much. When I moved on to another job he gave me the Jazz portrait album as a remembrance of working at the station. I still have the album although it's pretty worn.

May he RIP.



[This message has been edited by Stephenm52 (edited 12-24-2007).]