Well to be fair this in actually the second greatest piano solo ever caught on tape (in my humble opinion). The best one would be this: • Art Tatum -- Yesterdays
Yeah....playing whole-tone scales....both hands....WOW! Back in the 70’s I was studying guitar with Joe Pass & he was part of the trio with Henning-Orsted Pederson....and got to meet them at several concerts sponsored by Norman Granz.
@@tonybmusic1166 not double octaves. He is playing octaves, same notes with the left and right hand, parallel playing, double octaves would be octaves in both the left and the right hand which makes for 4 octaves.
Nobody should be surprise by this. Oscar played Hanon every day, sometimes for 4 hours. A friend of mine met him years ago (privately) and Oscar started out by playing the Op 10 Chopin Etudes. He played all of them for my friend...magnificently. Look, there was nothing he couldn't do, including Rachmaninoff. He never played classical music in public. But believe me...he could do it all.... sanjosemike
Haha he wasn't good at any classical and he didn’t play any Chopin etudes , he couldn’t play any classical music decently , you’re just making it up, I knew him personally and he admitted he couldn’t play hard;y any classical
@@ciararespect4296 Thank you for the truth. There are too many ignorant people who did not understand that being a FAST FINGER JOE is irrelevant to real mastery of an instrument.
@@ulugozkan9502 no problem. I knew I'd get a lot of hate in return on other channels from superficial people who know little about music but I felt it has to be said. He was of course fantastic in his own genre but it can't easily be transplanted over to other ones to a high level Just fanboys would say that.
@@ciararespect4296 Oops, no haters responded. Seems you two noobs didn't even get the intention that you originally wanted. Music isn't just fast fingers. Wow, Profound! What you are gonna tell me next? Owning instruments doesn't make one a musician? Gee, stop role playing online muscian for a second, go back practice your classical piece before your Asian parents whoop your asses LOL
@@JJamJ Are you sure you're not comparing the sound quality of the recordings? The recordings of Tatum from the 40s and 50s aren't as clear as performances of Peterson from the 60s and later.
Who cares if this is the best solo or not? Oscar is still the best pianist i've ever heard. Saw him in person in 1961 with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen. To see him play piano is like watching Buddy Rich play drums or Fred Astaire dancing. The best always make it look effortless!
I feel the same way about so many of the great masters. However, I was fortunate enough to meet Oscar after he gigged in Oslo 2004. He was an old man being pushed in a wheelchair. He had just played an amazing concert. NHØP, Wakenius and Alvin Queen was standing in the exit smoking while I talked to Oscar. When I told him that I played jazz piano and that he was one of my biggest sources of inspiration, he replied in a deep hoarse voice: "Oh that's good. The world needs more pianists". That was an amazing day.
Back in the day (60 something)I caught Oscar @ the Apollo in Harlem NYC, he played a tribute to Art Tatum and the place got so still it was incredible.
@polymath7 Please keep going. When I met Oscar back in 2004 I told him that I also play the piano. He´s reply to me was: "Oh that good, the world NEEDS more pianists". He would never want YOU to be intimidated, but rather inspired by he´s music. Dont use it as an excuse to stop dreaming, use it as an excuse to KEEP dreaming. Use it for realizing what level of mastery can actually be achieved through hard work and devotion. Oscar was intimidated when he first heard Art Tatum, but not for long.
WAUW. 1.000.000 views !!! I would have never thought that could happen, when I uploaded this to UA-cam. Maybe the title is not proper in the eyes of everyone - but it did have an effect :-) Thanks for watching everyone. R.I.P Oscar Peterson !!! Om Mani Peme Hung!
They're God-given gifts. To make comparisons is pathetic. Oscar's the greatest jazz pianist. Art is the greatest jazz pianist. Oscar's the greatest for me. That's who I hear. That's who I enjoy.
This clip reminds me of a similar one in the movie "The Legend of 1900", when the piano player starts playing really fast and the whole band stops to hear him.
Oh my. All I can say! Wonderful... Thanks for posting,as well as for putting up the link for the full version. Excuse me, I have to go back and watch this again...
OMG!! "Sweet Georgia Brown" way up tempo, and Oscar is schooling us all in how to play it.! Gotta love both bass players' reactions, just shakin' their heads in amazement. Oh...this roxx, man. Thanks for the post!
Sure wish I could have seen his amazing finger work. Saw this man live with Joe Pass and Ella many years ago - the hall was bulging with the talent of these three.
@bobnones1 I finally heard Keith Jarrett on Charles Lloyd's Forest Flower...the live album..... He, like Joe Zawinul with Cannonball, played thrilling piano...with amazing technical flourishes....now with Keith's solo work, you don't get that intensity and thrill anymore, and Joe moved more into composition and fundamental melodic work for his own group.
Oscar Peterson would probably not have called this the greatest piano solo ever, but he's clearly having fun. What I love about Peterson is that even in this fast bravado pieces his left hand does subtle slowish syncopations.
Like those two guys looking in amazement were two of the greatest base players in the world. One was in fact married to Ella Fitzgerald. These men played with the best & weren't easy to impress. This kind of playing is the case were the hand is quicker than the eye. It's like a blur
for any of you jazz fans who haven't heard of this guy, i recommend taylor eigsti. he's a really great new pianist, only 24, but he's fuckin amazing. look him up on itunes. i was lucky enough to get a lesson from him at stanford jazz camp last year, and later saw him live with julian lage (guitarist, also amazing) just a recommendation for all you people. if you want, tell me what you thought. he's amazing, definitely worth the time. :)
@dservias1977 ..I've played with concerts, having to flip through pages of chords. There was absolutely no heart in my playing, as I was simply trying not to miss a note or screw up the singers. This is typically the case for any genre when playing a rehearsed song. Improvised jamming, on the other hand (as Oscar is doing here), is much more free and soulful, and you can really tell when the musician just feels it. It's that moment that people are missing out on when criticizing improv.
You see, this is why I can't bring myself to take up serious study of the piano. I convince myself I have considerable potential and can make the time, then I see something like *this* and say, "No no, you're dreaming, jackass. Fuck it".
@Santosificationable According to Bill Evans (from the interview with his brother), the word jazz simply means improvised music. And he´s arguing that if this is the case, then Mozart, Chopin, Bach and Beethoven all played jazz, because according to history books, they all improvised in their music. They just didnt have the technology to pass it on, so to preserve their music, they had to just write it down, Jazz and Classical are to sides of the same coin, only with different places in time.
@SnakeorScorpion Honestly, what does playing rock fast have to do with Oscar Peterson? I myself think Oscar's improvisations are much more difficult, Wakeman's is just fast use of all 5 fingers.
@gilgamess Petersons father played a record with Tatums version of Tiger Rag....And apart from crying every night, he also didn´t touch the keyboard for over a month. Luckily he took it up again after a while.
@perchst All three are excellent. As far as technical skill is concerned, most people would agree Tatum was at the top, followed by Peterson and Evans. However, its not all about technical skill at all. They each have their own perfect and unique jazz style and it is fantastic to hear all three of them play. Evans' playing is comparatively simple but beautiful and harmonic and rich nonetheless. (I especially like Yesterdays, Blues Etude, and Flamenco Sketches by the respective piano players.)
@GitFace88 If you transcribed this and played it at half speed, it would still be musically amazing. Believe it or not there are musicians out there who can improvise at these kind of speeds and still treat every note with the same attention to detail that they would at 60 BPM.... granted not many.
Bill Evans, dissonant? Dude, he has his dissonances, but they're some of the most gorgeous dissonances ever. Consonant dissonances aren't really dissonances at all, in my mind; at least, they're not the type that he'll find disfavour it.
Peterson reportedly couldn't play for a week after watching Tatum, he was so blown away. If you're going to diss the GOD of piano better know where your idol stands first.
@dservias1977 Of course jazz musicians have to practice. It takes a lot of skill to play jazz on any instrument. They make it look easy, which takes a lot of repetition. The thing about improving, and playing from the soul, is that you have to have the skill to not have to think about what you're playing. Playing off a sheet requires that same skill, but lacks the soul, and personal touch. (in fact, a personal touch is scoffed at in classical music)
Niels Henning is just shaking his head after those fast double octaves
Yeah....playing whole-tone scales....both hands....WOW! Back in the 70’s I was studying guitar with Joe Pass & he was part of the trio with Henning-Orsted Pederson....and got to meet them at several concerts sponsored by Norman Granz.
@@tonybmusic1166 not double octaves. He is playing octaves, same notes with the left and right hand, parallel playing, double octaves would be octaves in both the left and the right hand which makes for 4 octaves.
Nobody should be surprise by this. Oscar played Hanon every day, sometimes for 4 hours. A friend of mine met him years ago (privately) and Oscar started out by playing the Op 10 Chopin Etudes. He played all of them for my friend...magnificently.
Look, there was nothing he couldn't do, including Rachmaninoff. He never played classical music in public. But believe me...he could do it all....
sanjosemike
Haha he wasn't good at any classical and he didn’t play any Chopin etudes , he couldn’t play any classical music decently , you’re just making it up, I knew him personally and he admitted he couldn’t play hard;y any classical
@@ciararespect4296bro's got a grudge for a dead man.
@@ciararespect4296 Thank you for the truth. There are too many ignorant people who did not understand that being a FAST FINGER JOE is irrelevant to real mastery of an instrument.
@@ulugozkan9502 no problem. I knew I'd get a lot of hate in return on other channels from superficial people who know little about music but I felt it has to be said.
He was of course fantastic in his own genre but it can't easily be transplanted over to other ones to a high level
Just fanboys would say that.
@@ciararespect4296 Oops, no haters responded. Seems you two noobs didn't even get the intention that you originally wanted. Music isn't just fast fingers. Wow, Profound! What you are gonna tell me next? Owning instruments doesn't make one a musician? Gee, stop role playing online muscian for a second, go back practice your classical piece before your Asian parents whoop your asses LOL
What a technic, amazing pianist, Oscar Peterson one of the greatest jazz pianist ever...
Roland Gerard the single greatest*
@@AzlanValentine Art Tatum
@@dritemolawzbks8574 Tatum mostly solo work with much rubato work. Certainly did not have Oscar’s timing and control in my opinion.
@@JJamJ Are you sure you're not comparing the sound quality of the recordings? The recordings of Tatum from the 40s and 50s aren't as clear as performances of Peterson from the 60s and later.
@@dritemolawzbks8574 Just my opinion. I think Oscar was cleaner and more disciplined. Loved Tatum though and he was a genius and technical wizard.
Who cares if this is the best solo or not? Oscar is still the best pianist i've ever heard. Saw him in person in 1961 with Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen. To see him play piano is like watching Buddy Rich play drums or Fred Astaire dancing. The best always make it look effortless!
you know it's impressive when the band stands back and smiles that "wow, that's impressive" smile.
One of the only humans to ever live who could actually sound like one of Conlon Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano. Even more so than Art Tatum!
Musical genius, humble man and a great teacher. Wonderful to listen to him play and teach. Legend!
if only i could have met him :(
I feel the same way about so many of the great masters. However, I was fortunate enough to meet Oscar after he gigged in Oslo 2004. He was an old man being pushed in a wheelchair. He had just played an amazing concert. NHØP, Wakenius and Alvin Queen was standing in the exit smoking while I talked to Oscar. When I told him that I played jazz piano and that he was one of my biggest sources of inspiration, he replied in a deep hoarse voice: "Oh that's good. The world needs more pianists". That was an amazing day.
Per Christensen wow that is amazing...if only i knew about him before 2007 :(
Well, the music is still alive I suppose :-)
If you had have met him, you would never have forgotten it! A Great Man!
I find it to be a blessing to see a man whose music just makes him smile : )
Just AWESOME !!!!
Back in the day (60 something)I caught Oscar @ the Apollo in Harlem NYC, he played a tribute to Art Tatum and the place got so still it was incredible.
Insanely awesome as usual. I like how he's mumbling while he's playing, it seems like he's absorbed in the music
He's scatting
Go, Mr. Peterson! You filled the lives of my parents and friends with wonder. I love you and will share you with the new generations!
@polymath7
Please keep going.
When I met Oscar back in 2004 I told him that I also play the piano. He´s reply to me was: "Oh that good, the world NEEDS more pianists".
He would never want YOU to be intimidated, but rather inspired by he´s music. Dont use it as an excuse to stop dreaming, use it as an excuse to KEEP dreaming. Use it for realizing what level of mastery can actually be achieved through hard work and devotion. Oscar was intimidated when he first heard Art Tatum, but not for long.
👏
I LITERALLY have chills .
WAUW.
1.000.000 views !!!
I would have never thought that could happen, when I uploaded this to UA-cam.
Maybe the title is not proper in the eyes of everyone - but it did have an effect :-)
Thanks for watching everyone.
R.I.P Oscar Peterson !!!
Om Mani Peme Hung!
So true . with the eight bar boogie blues just for the shier display of massive technical skill . :)
They're God-given gifts. To make comparisons is pathetic. Oscar's the greatest jazz pianist. Art is the greatest jazz pianist. Oscar's the greatest for me. That's who I hear. That's who I enjoy.
This clip reminds me of a similar one in the movie "The Legend of 1900", when the piano player starts playing really fast and the whole band stops to hear him.
Oh my. All I can say! Wonderful... Thanks for posting,as well as for putting up the link for the full version. Excuse me, I have to go back and watch this again...
OMG!! "Sweet Georgia Brown" way up tempo, and Oscar is schooling us all in how to play it.! Gotta love both bass players' reactions, just shakin' their heads in amazement. Oh...this roxx, man. Thanks for the post!
holy crap its one thing to play this fast in a scale but for it to still have so much voice it amazing.
I can't stop watching this....
I listens to jazz since i was a kid. The improvisation in jazz affects my way of thinking. I can adopt in any situation with limited resources.
How could they not show his hands at all in that (incredible) clip!!
An absolute monster player...
This is awesome! So cool seeing the reactions of Ray and NHOP....I love shit like this man.
Thanks so much for posting.
Closest depiction anyone can do if Art Tatum is by that man right there.
The look on Neils Pederson's face (at :34) as he chuckles in utter amazement, is priceless.
Sure wish I could have seen his amazing finger work. Saw this man live with Joe Pass and Ella many years ago - the hall was bulging with the talent of these three.
The Chopin of Jazz!
Peterson was an incredible player, and this is certainly proof he was extraordinary. And your title got my attention!
Sounds like someone's nightmare set to music. Just fast, not great.
it's great! FUN! :)
Ogni goccia del SUO Sudore, e' una PERLA del SUO SWING ! Meraviglioso GENIO MONDIALE !!!
I like to see he's having fun ;-)
Great player, I think the best piano player ever.
Virtually anything Oscar played was the best ever and there ever was and will be... Amen.
Many thanks! Great video, and a truly great exponent of jazz piano!
I love that hes just having fun with it :)
Imagine a fun competition between OP at his prime and Yuja Wang. That would be awesome.
I only heard him perform once (Oslo, 2004) but what great experience. I also had a quick chat with him after the concert. :o)
i could listen to him improvise a solo all day
The style is 'stride' - I believe. The pianist is breathtaking! Oscar was and is the best ever!!
The G. O. A. T.
@bobnones1
I finally heard Keith Jarrett on Charles Lloyd's Forest Flower...the live album.....
He, like Joe Zawinul with Cannonball, played thrilling piano...with amazing technical flourishes....now with Keith's solo work, you don't get that intensity and thrill anymore, and Joe moved more into composition and fundamental melodic work for his own group.
Dude just be going off 🎹
it has some clasical style
Oscar Peterson would probably not have called this the greatest piano solo ever, but he's clearly having fun. What I love about Peterson is that even in this fast bravado pieces his left hand does subtle slowish syncopations.
i like it, he was actually one of my influences growing up. i should learn this version and post it! :)
Fantastic..........
It's incredible how fast he does it, but whether it sounds good is another thing entirely.
Like those two guys looking in amazement were two of the greatest base players in the world. One was in fact married to Ella Fitzgerald. These men played with the best & weren't easy to impress. This kind of playing is the case were the hand is quicker than the eye. It's like a blur
Nils and Ray look like "do you know how he does that"? haha
Its very easy to see art tatum's influence on this guy!! Just amazing...
yes!
thats a fabulous response
its amazing, of course. oscar doesnt really have peers, and thanks for sharing
One word...
Woah
Talk about fingers on fire. Best thing he looks like he's having fun?
Montreal's greatest pianist....simply genius....Let me amend that to Canada's....My choice as Piano Prince to King Tatum.
Fantastic! But not his only greatest piano solo ever! There are more!
He is the first player, of any instrument, whom I consider close to my own level of musical ability.
A wonder on the ears..
Too sick...
i fuking love this man
for any of you jazz fans who haven't heard of this guy, i recommend taylor eigsti. he's a really great new pianist, only 24, but he's fuckin amazing. look him up on itunes.
i was lucky enough to get a lesson from him at stanford jazz camp last year, and later saw him live with julian lage (guitarist, also amazing)
just a recommendation for all you people. if you want, tell me what you thought. he's amazing, definitely worth the time. :)
@dservias1977 ..I've played with concerts, having to flip through pages of chords. There was absolutely no heart in my playing, as I was simply trying not to miss a note or screw up the singers. This is typically the case for any genre when playing a rehearsed song. Improvised jamming, on the other hand (as Oscar is doing here), is much more free and soulful, and you can really tell when the musician just feels it. It's that moment that people are missing out on when criticizing improv.
WOW!
You see, this is why I can't bring myself to take up serious study of the piano.
I convince myself I have considerable potential and can make the time, then I see something like *this* and say, "No no, you're dreaming, jackass. Fuck it".
@Teakeett Click my link in the description to see the whole thing :-)
Amen to that :)
Uuuuuuuh......WOW!
perchst knows his shit
omg.. that is sooo good!!!
nice change to the stride piano at 00:30!
Best piano player
I have not the words to say but wooooooooooooow
Bravooooooooooo !!!
Oscar Peterson was playing so fast that 123 people were too slow to hear him.
i feel the same way
my friend MARCELLE JOHNSON put me onto THIS MAN!!!
insane!!!!
Yeah, it’s great to see the joy in faces, but who directed this? Why don’t we see his hands?!
thats realy extreme dificult! verry nice!
that cat was B.T.P.T.P!!!!!!!.....PERIOD!!!!
And also Mac Coy Tyner and the Great Thelonious Monk, not to forget about Horace (Ward Martin Tavares) Silver...
@perchst Argerich of course, though a little hard to compare jazz with classical
@Santosificationable According to Bill Evans (from the interview with his brother), the word jazz simply means improvised music. And he´s arguing that if this is the case, then Mozart, Chopin, Bach and Beethoven all played jazz, because according to history books, they all improvised in their music. They just didnt have the technology to pass it on, so to preserve their music, they had to just write it down, Jazz and Classical are to sides of the same coin, only with different places in time.
@NeNaDaCutTie99 He died around Xmas 2007 RIP O.P....They have made a beautiful statue of him in Torronto.
@SnakeorScorpion Honestly, what does playing rock fast have to do with Oscar Peterson?
I myself think Oscar's improvisations are much more difficult, Wakeman's is just fast use of all 5 fingers.
@gilgamess
Petersons father played a record with Tatums version of Tiger Rag....And apart from crying every night, he also didn´t touch the keyboard for over a month. Luckily he took it up again after a while.
@perchst All three are excellent. As far as technical skill is concerned, most people would agree Tatum was at the top, followed by Peterson and Evans. However, its not all about technical skill at all. They each have their own perfect and unique jazz style and it is fantastic to hear all three of them play. Evans' playing is comparatively simple but beautiful and harmonic and rich nonetheless. (I especially like Yesterdays, Blues Etude, and Flamenco Sketches by the respective piano players.)
holy shit
he looks possessed
5/5
holy
shizzle
@GitFace88 If you transcribed this and played it at half speed, it would still be musically amazing. Believe it or not there are musicians out there who can improvise at these kind of speeds and still treat every note with the same attention to detail that they would at 60 BPM.... granted not many.
Bill Evans, dissonant? Dude, he has his dissonances, but they're some of the most gorgeous dissonances ever. Consonant dissonances aren't really dissonances at all, in my mind; at least, they're not the type that he'll find disfavour it.
@searcherboy
Thanks. I'll definitely check them out.
OSCAR WAS AND ALWAYS BE THE MAN!!!!!!!
RIP
Mute it and it looks like he's doing something naughty and people are shaking their heads at him.
Peterson reportedly couldn't play for a week after watching Tatum, he was so blown away.
If you're going to diss the GOD of piano better know where your idol stands first.
@dservias1977 Of course jazz musicians have to practice. It takes a lot of skill to play jazz on any instrument. They make it look easy, which takes a lot of repetition. The thing about improving, and playing from the soul, is that you have to have the skill to not have to think about what you're playing. Playing off a sheet requires that same skill, but lacks the soul, and personal touch. (in fact, a personal touch is scoffed at in classical music)
Goodness it's almost as crazy as Kapustin's second sonata