Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing - Softcover

Lees, Gene

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9781559581110: Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559581115 ISBN 13: 9781559581110

Publisher: Prima Lifestyles, 1991

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Duke Ellington once called Oscar Peterson the "maharajah of the piano." Drawn from extensive interviews, this biography delves deeply into Peterson's extraordinary career to offer a portrait of a living musical legend. It is also a well-informed and provocative exploration of Peterson's music, a revolutionary fusion of swing and bop styles that overhauled jazz as we know it.

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About the Author:

Gene Lees is the award-winning author of Waiting for Dizzy, Meet Me at Jim and Andy's, and Singers and the Song, as well as biographies of Oscar Peterson and Lerner and Loewe. A former editor of Down Beat, he has written extensively for Stereo Review, The New York Times and other publications. Since
1981 he has published, edited, and written for the respected JazzLetter.

Review:

[An] enthusiastic account of a musician's development as the thinking person's pianist. (The New York Times Book Review)

There are five requisites for a readable and valuable book on jazz: enthusiasm, wit, insight, compassion, and technical knowledge of the music. Gene Lees has them all. (Leonard Feather Los Angeles Times)

A fine, richly detailed book...that explains the essence of jazz and of jazz playing as well as any written. (The Toronto Sun)

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