Oscar Peterson - A Little Jazz Exercise 1970 (Jazz / Stride Piano Synthesia)

A Little Jazz Exercise by Oscar Peterson
Original recording: • A Little Jazz Exercise...
Wikipedia:
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, but simply "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won eight Grammy Awards, and received numerous other awards and honours. He is considered one of the greatest jazz pianists and played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years.
Peterson was born in Montreal, Quebec, to immigrants from the West Indies; his father worked as a porter for Canadian Pacific Railway. Peterson grew up in the neighbourhood of Little Burgundy in Montreal. It was in this predominantly black neighborhood that he encountered the jazz culture. At the age of five, Peterson began honing his skills on trumpet and piano, but a bout of tuberculosis when he was seven prevented him from playing the trumpet again, so he directed all his attention to the piano. His father, Daniel Peterson, an amateur trumpeter and pianist, was one of his first music teachers, and his sister Daisy taught him classical piano. Peterson was persistent at practising scales and classical études.
As a child, Peterson studied with Hungarian-born pianist Paul de Marky, a student of István Thomán, who was himself a pupil of Franz Liszt, so his early training was predominantly based on classical piano. But he was captivated by traditional jazz and boogie-woogie and learned several ragtime pieces. He was called "the Brown Bomber of the Boogie-Woogie".
At the age of nine Peterson played piano with a degree of control that impressed professional musicians. For many years his piano studies included four to six hours of daily practice. Only in his later years did he decrease his practice to one or two hours daily. In 1940, at fourteen years of age, he won the national music competition organized by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. After that victory, he dropped out of the High School of Montreal, where he played in a band with Maynard Ferguson. He became a professional pianist, starring in a weekly radio show and playing at hotels and music halls. In his teens he was a member of the Johnny Holmes Orchestra. From 1945 to 1949 he worked in a trio and recorded for Victor Records. He gravitated toward boogie-woogie and swing with a particular fondness for Nat King Cole and Teddy Wilson. By the time he was in his 20s, he had developed a reputation as a technically brilliant and melodically inventive pianist.
This video quote:
"If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty." - Oscar Peterson
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[@jirehkoshy8076]

Oscar Peterson is a legend.

[@philrademacher]

That this is "a little" exercise is the best evidence for oscar petersons incredible Level.

[@stephanosioannou1825]

I'm still wondering what's going in OP's head when he plays

[@itsRemco]

Humming sounds 😂

[@philrademacher]

@@itsRemco 😂😂😂

[@corwinday7836]

Question umm how did peterson do the chord slide up intro at 0:02 cause i can do a octave and chord slide down like in charlston rag but that unless he moved his hand up real fast i dont know how thats possible cause when i do the octave slide down i just swipe down but siping up a chord or even an octave would probably hurt (especially when done at that tempo) anyways sidenote: good news i was playing the piano in the living room at my other grandmothers house and i can reach the right hand chords of the intro to rach 2 if ur not aware of the chords of complexity of this intro (which u probably arent) ill fill u in the chords require the utilization of all five fingers and its basically requires the ability to cram all ur fingers into one chord (oh and the whole piece is like this cause the guy whose name was sergei rachmaninoff had *HUGE HANDS CAPABALE OF REACHING A 13TH APPROXIMATELY TWELVE INCHES* so is this normal for a 13yr old self taught child anyways salutations for now❤❤

[@PiotrBarcz]

Four fingers to play the ascending fifth, two on the naturals, two on the sharps.

[@FantaSparta]

🐝Ya like jazz?

[@SolosHighlights]

Should I even attempt this 😫😫😫😫😮😮😮.
No seriously.

[@itsRemco]

It's just "A Little Jazz Exercise" right? 😉
Mo but seriously, if you speed it down till 0.25x and pay attention, the left hand is easier as you don't play a lot of actual chords (from 3 tones). If you have bigger hands you don't even have to 'jump'.
For the rest the right hand can be a bit more challenging but what you can do slow can you do fast. Good luck 💪🏾

[@SolosHighlights]

@@itsRemco Challenge accepted.😑😑😑

[@sneakydeath8969]

Wow man what a good exercise, good job. Do you have the sheet? I would like to check it if its possible

[@itsRemco]

Yooo I don't have sheet music atm (just see the comment now) in the future I'm going ti have a solution

[@Pglarsen]

Do you have the MIDI file?

[@PiotrBarcz]

@@Pglarsen Well he won't give it to you, Remco's crazy secretive about them XD

[@lzn1232]

Como eu tocar isso , meu deus do céu , alguém me ajuda

[@urfavragtimeguy3875]

You call this a "LITTLE JAZZ" exercise?

[@roberttopaz2316]

It is for O.P and Art.

[@bricedepri5457]

Commment une personne normal peut jouer comme ça ?

[@itsRemco]

By being born like Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum or by practicing your whole life hahah

[@davido.6567]

Elle peut pas

[@Movingforward2000]

Ask Donald Trump who think he' a master @ everything to play this! 😀😆 He can't play piano a 💩!