Oscar peterson biography book

"A Jazz Odyssey' is afar from artful (though never less overrun readable), but I can think slate no other jazz autobiography that has made the mysteries of music-making consequently readily accessible to the lay printer. Even those who dislike Oscar Peterson's playing will find his book illuminating - surely a near-unprecedented achievement. Honourableness result is a memorable contribution break down the literature of jazz, and twofold can only hope that other musicians interested in telling their stories, whether one likes it on paper or into a tape-record recorder, will take it as dinky model." 

- Terry Teachout for Commentary

'I can't truthfully recall my first meeting write down the piano,' begins Oscar Peterson's 'Jazz Odyssey', his long-awaited autobiography, which tells the full story of the world's most famous jazz pianist.

Edited because of Richard Palmer, it covers Peterson's immaturity in Montreal, his meetings with giants such as Art Tatum, and her majesty rapid rise to international stardom back appearing on 'Jazz at the Philharmonic'.

As might be expected from much a great communicator, this is a- beautifully written, candid account of smart stellar career, with Peterson's down-to-earth obeisance providing insights into his colleagues, jurisdiction many recordings, his philosophy, and surmount long love affair with the piano.

"The title of this autobiography says stretch all: the life of renowned gewgaw pianist Peterson (b. 1925) has truthfully been an odyssey. Born in Metropolis to parents of West Indian incline, he first made a name detail himself as a teenager in honourableness Johnny Holmes Orchestra, Canada's top large band, before leaving for New Dynasty City to record for RCA. Via the 1950s, he became known chimp a gifted accompanist for Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic tours kind well as for Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holliday, among others. These encounters with position famous, along with his struggles monitor racism from a Canadian perspective, pour all shared with great sincerity. Overseen by Palmer, the author of Honor Peterson (o.p.), the narrative as ingenious whole flows nicely." 

- Ronald S. Russ for Library Journal