* 1925 – Oscar Peterson, Canadian pianist and composer ( d. 2007 )

In 1976 Oscar Peterson played ( with Joe Pass on acoustic guitar ) songs from Porgy And Bess on the clavichord.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

His playing style has been described as "... like a slightly melancholic Oscar Peterson.

* Tracks ( Oscar Peterson album ), 1970

* In 1962, Oscar Peterson and his trio recorded a jazz version, West Side Story.

Jazz stars in the 1950s who came into prominence in their genres called Bebop, Hard bop, Cool jazz and the Blues, at this time included Lester Young, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Gil Evans, Jerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Max Roach, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday.

** Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist ( d. 2007 )

The more notable artists include Sonny Stitt, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett, Claude Bolling, Oscar Peterson, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Dick Hyman, Joe Pass, Milt Jackson, Earl Hines, André Previn, World Saxophone Quartet, Ben Webster, Zoot Sims, Kenny Burrell, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Martial Solal, Clark Terry and Randy Weston.

He favors jazz ( especially bebop ), blues, classic rhythm-and-blues, classical, and country-and-western music ; his favorite musicians include saxophonists Charlie Parker and Lester Young, pianists Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, and Fats Waller, and Delta bluesman Robert Johnson.

Moore's admitted principal musical influences were Oscar Peterson and Erroll Garner.

The trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie, the guitarist Herb Ellis, and the pianists Tommy Flanagan, Oscar Peterson, Lou Levy, Paul Smith, Jimmy Rowles, and Ellis Larkins all worked with Ella mostly in live, small group settings.

Dave Brubeck, Bix Beiderbecke, Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, Charlie Shavers, Jimmy Smith, Joe Venuti, Ray Barretto, and Shelly Manne also have recorded the song.

Other notable jazz pianists who occasionally played the celesta include Meade " Lux " Lewis, Willie " The Lion " Smith, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, McCoy Tyner, Sun Ra, and Herbie Hancock.

During 1952 Astaire recorded The Astaire Story, a four-volume album with a quintet led by Oscar Peterson.

* Satch and Josh ( with Oscar Peterson )

* Satch and Josh ... Again ( with Oscar Peterson ) ( 1977, Pablo )

* Night Rider ( with Oscar Peterson ) ( 1978, Pablo )

* Count Basie Meets Oscar Peterson – The Timekeepers ( with Oscar Peterson ) ( 1978, Pablo )

* Yessir, That's My Baby ( with Oscar Peterson ) ( 1978, Pablo )

* Time After Time ( Oscar Peterson album ), including a version of the 1947 song, 1986

* Night Train – The Oscar Peterson Trio

* West Side Story – Oscar Peterson Trio

** Joe Pass, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen & Oscar Peterson for The Trio

* The Trio ( 1973 album ), by Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass and Niels-Henning Pedersen

* The Trio ( Oscar Peterson album ), a live 1961 album featuring a jazz trio led by the Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson

* 1957: The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Oscar Peterson Trio at the Opera House ( Verve )

** The Oscar Peterson Trio for Saturday Night at the Blue Note

** Oscar Peterson for The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note

** The Oscar Peterson Trio for The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note

Kessel was also a member of the Oscar Peterson Trio with Ray Brown for a year, leaving in 1953.

During 1990-1993 the " Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio " reunited, with Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis and Ray Brown, with either Bobby Durham or Jeff Hamilton added on drums.

In 1959 he replaced guitarist Herb Ellis in the Oscar Peterson Trio in Toronto, Canada.

* Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio ( 1958, Verve )

* Swinging Brass with the Oscar Peterson Trio ( 1959, Verve )

* The Oscar Peterson Trio in Tokyo 1964 ( 1964 ; Pablo )

** Joe Pass, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen & Oscar Peterson for The Trio

** Oscar Peterson for The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note

He performed with the Oscar Pettiford Trio and led a quartet with Buddy DeFranco, which led to contractual problems, since Shearing was under contract to MGM and DeFranco to Capitol Records.

In 1983 Andrzej Wajda, the latter Oscar winner, made the story into a film " Miłość w Niemczech ".

* " Blame It On My Youth " w. Edward Heyman m. Oscar Levant

* " When I Grow Too Old To Dream " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg

* " Don't Ever Leave Me " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

* " Here Am I " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

* " Lovable And Sweet " w. Sidney Clare m. Oscar Levant.

" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

* " Can't Help Loving Dat Man " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

* " If You Want the Rainbow " w. Mort Dixon & Billy Rose m. Oscar Levant.

* " Life Upon The Wicked Stage " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

* " Lover, Come Back to Me " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg

* " Make Believe " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

* " One Kiss " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg

* " Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg.

* " Stouthearted Men " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg

* " Wanting You " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg.

* " You Are Love " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

* " Can't Help Lovin ' Dat Man " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern.

* " I Still Suits Me " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

* " Ol ' Man River " w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern

" w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern.

* " The Hills of Home " w. Floride Calhoun m. Oscar J.

* " Song of the Flame " w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. George Gershwin & Herbert Stothart

* " Sunny " w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern