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* 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

Oscar and August
Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (; July 12, 1895 August 23, 1960 ) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and ( usually uncredited ) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years.
* August 1 Oscar Hammerstein I, Polish-born theater impressario and composer ( born 1847 )
* August 14 Oscar Levant, American pianist and actor ( b. 1906 )
When, in August 1810, his father Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was elected Crown Prince of Sweden, Oscar and his mother moved from Paris to Stockholm ( June 1811 ).
Robert Oscar Lenkiewicz ( 31 December 1941 August 5, 2002 ) was one of South West England's most celebrated artists of modern times.
On August 8, 1923, the British branch of " Parlophone " ( with the " e " added ) was established, led by A & R manager Oscar Preuss.
Robert Oxton Bolt, CBE ( 15 August 1924 21 February 1995 ) was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar winning screenwriter.
He presided over the Haymarket Riot case in 1886, sentencing anarchists August Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, and Louis Lingg to death and Oscar Neebe to fifteen years.
When Derby died in August 1965 Oscar de la Renta took over the label.
He was appointed Minister of Trade in the short-lived but notable John Lyng cabinet from August to September 1963, following the Kings Bay Affair that brought to an end to the uninterrupted chain of Labor governments after World War II, headed by Einar Gerhardsen and Oscar Torp.
Some in the entertainment industry were angry that Gish did not receive an Oscar nomination for her role in The Whales of August.
Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, KCMG, OM, PC, JP ( 22 March 193026 August 2000 ), is regarded as the " Father of the Nation " of the Bahamas, having led it to Majority Rule on 10 January 1967 and to independence on 10 July 1973.
From August to November 2008, she played Mrs Cheveley in Oscar Wilde's stage play ' An Ideal Husband ' directed by Peter Hall and produced by Bill Kenwright.
* August 20 Oscar Stoumon, music critic and composer ( d. 1900 )
In 1988, Bille August also received an Oscar with Pelle the Conqueror based on the novel by Martin Andersen Nexø.
* Oscar " Happy " Felsch, center fielder, died on August 17, 1964, at 72.
In its first decade, contributors included many well-known writers and artists such as Peter Altenberg, Richard Dehmel, Egon Friedell, Oskar Kokoschka, Else Lasker-Schüler, Adolf Loos, Heinrich Mann, Arnold Schönberg, August Strindberg, Georg Trakl, Frank Wedekind, Franz Werfel, Houston Stewart Chamberlain and Oscar Wilde.
* An Ideal Husband ( Oscar Wilde ) 25 August 2008-29 November 2008.
Oscar Hammerstein I ( 8 May 18471 August 1919 ) was a businessman, theater impresario and composer in New York City.
In 2003, he had his last name officially changed to Bruel-Benguigui, his stage name with his birthname, before his partner, the writer and playwright, Amanda Sthers gave birth to his first child, Oscar, on August 19.
* August 21-Brasília is inaugurated as Brazil's new capital city, with many public buildings designed by Oscar Niemeyer.
In a controversial decision, he consigned his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor to Herman Darvick Autograph Auctions, and on August 6, 1992, in New York City, the Oscar sold to a private collector for $ 60, 500.
Oscar Emil " Happy " Felsch ( August 22, 1891 August 17, 1964 ) was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago White Sox from 1915 to 1920.

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