Peterson won eight Grammy Awards during his lifetime between 19. Their last recording, On the Town with the Oscar Peterson Trio, recorded live at the Town Tavern in Toronto, captured a remarkable degree of emotional as well as musical understanding among three players. Ashby, who was a swing guitarist, was soon replaced by Kessel. Shortly afterward Smith was replaced by guitarist Irving Ashby, who had been a member of the Nat King Cole Trio. In the early 1950s, he began performing with Brown and drummer Charlie Smith as the Oscar Peterson Trio. He considered the trio with Ray Brown and Herb Ellis 'the most stimulating' and productive setting for public performances and studio recordings. Peterson worked in duos with Sam Jones, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Joe Pass, Irving Ashby, Count Basie, and Herbie Hancock. He was called the ' Maharaja of the keyboard' by Duke Ellington, simply 'O.P.' by his friends, and informally in the jazz community, 'the King of inside swing'. He played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years. Considered a virtuoso and one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, Peterson released more than 200 recordings, won eight Grammy Awards, as well as a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy, and received numerous other awards and honours.

This album featured Rebecca Kilgore on vocals and Gary Hobbs on drums.Oscar Emmanuel Peterson CC CQ OOnt (Aug– December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. This was followed by Búzios also original material and also on Axial Records.

In 2008, Beach began writing lyrics in the Brazilian style, and his album Brasil Beat (2010) contained music and lyrics in Portuguese. This album was his debut as leader of a recording session and featured Beach singing Brazilian standards and playing original instrumentals in a piano trio setting. He released Letting Go in 2004 on his Axial Records label. He concentrated on the bossa nova introduced by Antonio Carlos Jobim, João Gilberto, Vinicius De Moraes, Carlos Lyra and João Donato and the later MPB styles of Sergio Mendez, Edu Lobo, Milton Nascimento, and Ivan Lins. In 2003, Beach began to study Brazilian music and the Portuguese language. In 1997 he toured Japan with his trio and in 2001 toured European ports. He also performed with Charlie Rouse, Nat Adderley, Bud Shank, and Jimmy Cobb. In the 1990s, he settled in Portland, Oregon, and led a trio which included Mark Murphy. In 1984 he returned to the United States, worked regularly with drummer Ron Steen, and performed in groups with Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, Eddie Harris, Howard Roberts, and Nick Brignola.

He lived in Amsterdam and performed in clubs such as the Bamboo Bar and Jazz Café Alto as leader of his own trio. In the early 1980s, Beach spent seven months in the European jazz scene. In 1974 he joined the group of jazz guitarist Jimmy James and worked with him for much of the decade. During the 1970s he studied privately with Marian McPartland, Warren Bernhardt, Jerome Gray, and Mary Fields. He studied music at Portland State University, Oregon State University, and Mt. An early piano teacher introduced him to the transcriptions of Dave Brubeck and he was influenced by Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. At age 11, he was listening to records by Oscar Peterson, Sonny Rollins and Gil Evans that belonged to his older brother. His mother was a piano teacher, his grandfather a choir director, and his grandmother a church organist. Bill Beach (born 1953) is a jazz pianist, vocalist, and teacher.īeach began his study of the piano at age seven.

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