Also the amount of concentration that he puts in, also on other video's you can hear him humming the notes before he plays them. Almost like he bufferers the song in his head before playing! Absolute genius.
@@AzlanValentine yea I've seen that before . Certainly not classical? just a few runs in classic romantic style and definitely nothing much Thanks for the link I rest my case. He was one of the best jazz pianists ever but classical not anywhere
THE KING, THE PRINCE, THE DUKE, THE MAESTRO AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER DESCRIPTORS THAT DON'T OCCUR TO ME!!!! Thank you Oscar for making my teen years so joyful..
My leg is still shaking after hearing that - Amazing!!! What a legacy he's left for every pianist after him! I think I'm gonna go and do some practice now..
YUP! I loved this guy's music since I was a teenager, I do not think that there will be another like him! He was an alien from another planet. As if there were another jazz dimension out in the galaxy. He just went home. All I have to say......... AWESOME!!!
My trhee favorite jazz pianists of all times are Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson and Thomas ´Fats´ Waller in any order. This performance of Oscar has parts that makes me remember the three pianists. I believe that Oscar shows his influences here.
Wow!! Speechless... what can you say... this guy is insane on the piano... Thank you so much Mr.Peterson. He would rock that saloon all night long!! whoooooooo!!!
Yes, Oscar has many recordings but the recordings I remember best are a 4 disc set "Exclusively for my friends" recorded by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer in Germany. There are many many memorable songs here but the one that knocked me off my feet was "Sandys Blues". Jaw dropping piano blues.
I listen YT only at work, in my office. My coworkers doesn't have ear, brain, heart and soul for music and art - today they laught at Trane's "Naima" ... But when I played this one, they all shuted up;)
This was amazing!!!!!!!!! This is the MASTER :D I learn so from him, so many good bebop lines and blues licks. And you can see his technic is very very good otherwise you can't play so fast as he does. It's all about playing without tension and stress. And always trying to play as relax as possible (physsically I mean:) That what I'm practicing right now:) I just made this song my favorite:) Greetz Joachim (THe Netherlands)
Still practicing our superlative forms of the same adjectives.People fall out of their chairs in astonishment while listening to this artistry We were rolling around on the floor searching to regain stability after being tossed on the floor at least five times in twenty minutes. Marvelous and superb are the minimal words.
Before a masterpiece becomes rather 'fixed', the intervening years can offer up many creative gems of possibility. I've heard numerous versions of Oscar's Blues Etude, but I've never heard him play so much 'Fats'. Furthermore, I can hear the trio at the very end. That tells me how BIG Peterson played.
The greater artistically piano players are becoming is not only attributed to their immense talent and dexterity. It is also attributed to the evolutionary most talented craftsmanship peoples that perfected the master of all musical instruments , the piano forte Over 300 years ago, one humble craftsman came up with the idea that a string cord could be hand knocked with a soft fabric hammer and produce a different sound than being pinch by the nails of the fingers. Along the years, these craft artists have created and perfected the action mechanism that allowed the mouvements of the hammers to be efficiently responsive to the pressure of the fingers on a key bord allowing imaginative creativity of the composers. This started a revolution that gave us over the years this magnificent instrument that is still until today dominating in the musical world.
One hellava piano player. He sure made his stamp on the piano. He was at his best when he slowly built to a peak. He would take your breath away and drive it home!
I put it in a faster speed to see how it sounded then put it to normal and was like wait did i not change it back? this is i dont even know a word to explain how good this is
i keep coming back to this, cant find anything else this good, so joyful it makes me laugh. anyone suggest anything similar? boogie blues etude is good. joyous love to the uploader.
The reason I state this is because I remember Oscar saying it in an interview (but I may be wrong). You have to bare in mind that Oscar did all of Chopin's studies and had massive hands (doing a tenth for him was like doing a 7th for us). 1st/4th and 1st/5th seems hardly plausible because his walking tenth is really legatto. Alternating with the 4th and 5th wouldn't produce the same effect I guess.
other pianists go hide your faces!!! these ten fingers are among the most talented we've ever known, ranking right up there with Da Vinci and Michelangelo. If....IF....there is an even comparably CLOSE jazz pianist EVER (let alone on UA-cam), I'd like to hear them!!
and that children is why oscar peterson is my favorite piano player. But seriously this man was/is/and will be mind blowing no matter what speed, style or idea he did. He and Art man by far will leave your mouth open with cob webs.
honestly, universally speaking, not just limited to music, I can't believe there are people who are that good at ANYTHING.
scary how lazy he makes us look;
There's lots of them, but think about the musician, or band, that has to follow someone with skills like that. I've been there.
I don’t think there is a better example ever recorded of a person’s mastery of a musical instrument than this .
Agreed! Quite astonishing really.
art tatum... though peterson is very much up there
@@jman12849 Tatum was the man, what I would give for a time machine .
Yes. Mr Peterson is almost as fast as Ben Toury.
Thanks
Finally a camera man who knows what a legendary left hand oscar has
Also the amount of concentration that he puts in, also on other video's you can hear him humming the notes before he plays them. Almost like he bufferers the song in his head before playing! Absolute genius.
The cleanest pianist I ever heard.
I can hardly believe my ears much less my eyes. A true genius!
Oscar just put every musician on every instrument in their place. RIP fella
Not classical ones
@@ciararespect4296 shh
@@AzlanValentine nah
@@ciararespect4296 ua-cam.com/video/R9kBCK6qDvQ/v-deo.html
@@AzlanValentine yea I've seen that before . Certainly not
classical? just a few runs in classic romantic style and definitely nothing much Thanks for the link I rest my case. He was one of the best jazz pianists ever but classical not anywhere
THE KING, THE PRINCE, THE DUKE, THE MAESTRO AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER DESCRIPTORS THAT DON'T OCCUR TO ME!!!! Thank you Oscar for making my teen years so joyful..
That finish from 3:53 onwards is just magical... How i would love to finish a piece like that! Mr. Peterson is one of the greatest forces on piano.
Picking tongue off of floor now. The action at 3:42 is insane.
No one will ever touch Oscar P!!
best part is from 0:00 to 4:27
In normal speed, this would be three hours.
Andreas Delleske what do you mean normal speed?
This is Bach on steroids absolute genius
My leg is still shaking after hearing that - Amazing!!! What a legacy he's left for every pianist after him! I think I'm gonna go and do some practice now..
This talent is literally beyond my comprehension.
YUP! I loved this guy's music since I was a teenager,
I do not think that there will be another like him! He was an alien from another planet.
As if there were another jazz dimension out in the galaxy. He just went home.
All I have to say......... AWESOME!!!
He was the best of the best improvisators of all times.
They had to throw water on the piano afterwards.
LOL
one of my favourite jazz piano improvs ever.
My trhee favorite jazz pianists of all times are Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson and Thomas ´Fats´ Waller in any order. This performance of Oscar has parts that makes me remember the three pianists. I believe that Oscar shows his influences here.
Incredible!!! He was the greatest!!
Oscar truly is the greatest of all time. Mind-blowing.
Wow!! Speechless... what can you say... this guy is insane on the piano... Thank you so much Mr.Peterson. He would rock that saloon all night long!! whoooooooo!!!
You can't learn to play like this. Either you have it or you don't. What a privilege it would have been to watch him play live.
A huge influence on my musical life. Great to see him in action again and again.
no matter how bad a day i had, oscar can make me smile in the end
Man... I keep wondering how another human being, a creature with the same starting point as you and I can produce something so incredible
To be fair, the man had hands the size of eagle's wings. Not that this defines a good pianist, but it helps!
best piano player of all time
...there are many superlatives,but he is too marvelous for words!
Too great for words! I'm speechless....
after he finished..I cried..what a man..RIP
Yes, Oscar has many recordings but the recordings I remember best are a 4 disc set "Exclusively for my friends" recorded by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer in Germany. There are many many memorable songs here but the one that knocked me off my feet was "Sandys Blues". Jaw dropping piano blues.
Was the piano okay?
No.
I heard it pressed charges . . .
😉
Bailey Peterson haha did it survive?
Imagine after it was like the car at the end of the blues brothers ua-cam.com/video/QfN1GRqKXpM/v-deo.html
Bailey Peterson Absolutely. Afterward the both had a smoke, though.
Severely concussed
Tears fall when i listen him...
This is the most smile inducing thing Ive seen in many a moon. Totally sublime. Thanks for uploading this.
3:19- 3:34 is the best piece of boogie I have ever heard.
David Hanton bar none.
Second only to Tatum's Pole Boogie
@@the83rdtrombonist60 If Pole Boogie is better why doesn't it have 3 million view on youtube?
I just watched it four times in a row, smiling. Thanks for posting this :)
It puts a huge smile on your face!
I listen YT only at work, in my office. My coworkers doesn't have ear, brain, heart and soul for music and art - today they laught at Trane's "Naima" ...
But when I played this one, they all shuted up;)
I like to wake up in the morning and listen to this amazing work! Great !
This was amazing!!!!!!!!!
This is the MASTER :D
I learn so from him, so many good bebop lines and blues licks. And you can see his technic is very very good otherwise you can't play so fast as he does. It's all about playing without tension and stress. And always trying to play as relax as possible (physsically I mean:) That what I'm practicing right now:)
I just made this song my favorite:)
Greetz Joachim (THe Netherlands)
Still practicing our superlative forms of the same adjectives.People fall out of their chairs in astonishment while listening to this artistry We were rolling around on the floor searching to regain stability after being tossed on the floor at least five times in twenty minutes. Marvelous and superb are the minimal words.
I wish for a remastering of this....fantastic.
I needed this tonight! Thanks GeekGirlDiva thanks Ben Folds!
just obscene, 1:53 he plays tenths with his fourth finger, closest thing that we've had to Art
God: "Say, Oscar, can you give me some piano lessons?"
Art: "Me too! Remember that rent party back in '53?"
Dittos
My favorite jazz pianist but my favourite classical pianist is Marc Andre hamelin
Peterson took blues piano to the limit. Nobody will ever do any better than this.
holy shit this guy is amazing, i don't know how i've never heard of him before. thank you ben folds!
You won;those that got your returned tickets lost. You heard one of the world's supremely talented pianists.
Before a masterpiece becomes rather 'fixed', the intervening years can offer up many creative gems of possibility. I've heard numerous versions of Oscar's Blues Etude, but I've never heard him play so much 'Fats'. Furthermore, I can hear the trio at the very end. That tells me how BIG Peterson played.
This is awesome! 5 stars.
Such packaging of improvisation is a wonderful accomplishment for bundling this talent in such a way as to make it visible to day. OMG
as a player, I am both inspired and deeply humbled. You are missed but thx for the awesome legacy Mr Peterson.
number one. beyond words
haha, the cameraman's having trouble following his hands! Legend.
The greater artistically piano players are becoming is not only attributed to their immense talent and dexterity.
It is also attributed to the evolutionary most talented craftsmanship peoples that perfected the master of all musical instruments , the piano forte
Over 300 years ago, one humble craftsman came up with the idea that a string cord could be hand knocked with a soft fabric hammer and produce a different sound than being pinch by the nails of the fingers.
Along the years, these craft artists have created and perfected the action mechanism that allowed the mouvements of the hammers to be efficiently responsive to the pressure of the fingers on a key bord allowing imaginative creativity of the composers.
This started a revolution that gave us over the years this magnificent instrument that is still until today dominating in the musical world.
The piano should sue for aggravated assault and battery!
this guy is awesome! he's my musical hero!
bloody marvelous
Umbeliavable!
I was screaming at the end of the video!!! WOOOOW OSCAR!!!!
I
can't
believe
how
fast
he
is
AMAZING!
One hellava piano player. He sure made his stamp on the piano. He was at his best when he slowly built to a peak. He would take your breath away and drive it home!
WOW. That is incredible. And lol at 2:33 - He's playing that crazy right hand riff and wiping his head with his left hand! Brilliant.
Un moment de génie... THE MUSIC IS ALIVE!
Greatest jazz pianist ever
Love his outro. So inspiring. 3:55
Everything including the diamond encrusted Sterling kitchen sink.
Just mind blowing.
HOLY SH--
I'M SPEECHLESS.
Long Live The Brown Bomber of Boogie Woogie.
wow. what an observation. Totally agree.
I put it in a faster speed to see how it sounded then put it to normal and was like wait did i not change it back? this is i dont even know a word to explain how good this is
Sin duda alguna, uno de los mejores pianistas del siglo 20.
No need for other superlatives P10, you hit the nail on the head.
Unreal!
Amazing, RIP Oscar
i keep coming back to this, cant find anything else this good, so joyful it makes me laugh. anyone suggest anything similar? boogie blues etude is good. joyous love to the uploader.
Wow, he owned that piano then got up like a boss. The piano was tired after that performance!
i cant believe! i'm stunnig stunning and once more, i'm stunning...
NUMBER ONE!!!
merveille des merveilles!
so good at the edge of total madness
The Maharaja of the keyboard.
Obviously he's not suffering from rheumatism..;). Amazing straight piano...killing it!
And still ruling overthere in pianoheaven 🎹🎆
As a matter of fact he did suffer from arthritis…
People talk about Art Tatum being the king of jazz piano. On his best day Oscar Peterson could give Tatum a run for his money.
I agree with 'Joe a' above, "This is INSANE" !!! Incredible !!!
just incredible
Dang this is awesome...
I love it how he sings when he plays.
jestem w szoku.......cudownie gra!
The reason I state this is because I remember Oscar saying it in an interview (but I may be wrong). You have to bare in mind that Oscar did all of Chopin's studies and had massive hands (doing a tenth for him was like doing a 7th for us). 1st/4th and 1st/5th seems hardly plausible because his walking tenth is really legatto. Alternating with the 4th and 5th wouldn't produce the same effect I guess.
other pianists go hide your faces!!!
these ten fingers are among the most talented we've ever known, ranking right up there with Da Vinci and Michelangelo.
If....IF....there is an even comparably CLOSE jazz pianist EVER (let alone on UA-cam), I'd like to hear them!!
It's quite inimaginable!
This video is the reason I started jazz piano.
He had 1000 horse powers into his vehicle
Will we ever see the like of that degree of skill again, I wonder, glad I have been alive when was here.
and that children is why oscar peterson is my favorite piano player. But seriously this man was/is/and will be mind blowing no matter what speed, style or idea he did. He and Art man by far will leave your mouth open with cob webs.
Not style he can't play classical like top ones
The whole planet swings a little less since Oscar passed away.
Méchant Malade !! Impressive !!
amazing!!