Long lost tapes of an Oscar Peterson piano performance in Detroit take us back in time to the night the jazz session was recorded.

A live performance recorded more than 50 years ago is still leaving even seasoned musicians trying to figure out what they just heard. Captured in 1974 at London's Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, a ...

Canadian artists McLaren and Lambart created Begone Dull Care in 1949. They painted and scratched directly onto film to ...

TORONTO (AP) -- Oscar Peterson, whose flying fingers, hard-driving swing and melodic improvisations made him one of the world's most famous and influential jazz pianists in a career that spanned seven ...

DigitalJournal.com – Before Oscar Peterson took the stage at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall on Friday, an excited fan was restless two rows behind me. The cool-looking leather-jacketed guy clapped for no ...

The late Oscar Peterson is revered as one of jazz’s greatest pianists. Peterson is best known for composing “The Africa Suite” in the 1980s, which included “The Fallen Warrior,” inspired by Nelson ...

The 'Maharajah of the Keyboard' as Duke Ellington dubbed Oscar Peterson—or, to his friends, simply O.P.—would have turned one hundred in August, reason enough to remember the consummate Canadian ...

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, now in its 25th year, celebrating jazz as both a historical and living American art form. As part of the annual monthlong observance, the Smithsonian’s National ...

On June 14, 2025, Massey Hall will present Oscar Peterson at 100: A Canadian Celebration featuring an all-star roster of musicians coming together to celebrate international Jazz legend, Oscar ...