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One of the most influential players of jazz that the world has known, Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was born August 15, 1925 in Little Burgundy, Montreal. His living environment has been imbibed with jazz music since lived in a city where most people were African-Americans. When just five years, He learned piano and trumpet. After being affected with tuberculosis a couple of years later, he abandoned the trumpet and turned all its efforts towards the piano.

His main teacher these years was his father, an autodidact who was a porter working with Canadian Pacific Railways. He taught Oscar and his four brothers, all he has won while playing the piano when he was in the Merchant Navy. His sister brought to attention and taught him classical music.

Since he began playing the piano, Oscar made sure he got her a good foundation he would faithfully practice his scales and classical etudes daily - a habit which gave him a good foundation on the basics, which in its last years has contributed to much of its control over the piano. One of his piano teachers in its early years was Paul de Marky, who also like his sister gave lessons classical piano playing Oscar.

He began to catch up on recordings of traditional jazz that led him to learn a lot of ragtime and boogie-woogie tunes of his time. This ability has earned her the tag "The Brown Bomber of Boogie-Woogie". When he was nine, his game had reached maturity as any other professional. He spent anywhere between four and six hours a day to perfect the piano - a habit he has when he was guarded in his long career.

When he was 14, he took part in a national competition organized by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation where he won. This marked the beginning of his career. Standing his first concert to play a show once a week on the radio. He Also played in hotels and music halls.

The inspiration for his style of play from most jazz musicians including pianist while at idolized - Nat King Cole, Teddy Wilson, James P. Johnson and Art Tatum. The tide turned later in his career when Art Tatum was compared him in his last years success. In his first hearing of a piece Art Tatum was when his father played Tiger Rag for him. After having listened, he almost lost faith in his ability to play the piano as well as it could. He later admitted he had been intimidated by the technique of Art Tatum and he decides to be humble about his own ability to play. Oscar Peterson eventually became friends with Tatum but he finally let go of the admiration he has been in the Man. He rarely ever played the piano when Tatum was there.

Not only was he fascinated by the music Tatum, he also looked to pianists that Tatum watched as he began to play. His Work has been a lot of inspiration and note for note picked up by some sections of the music Sergei Rachmaninov. His work with his trio, Oscar Patterson Trio - with Herb Ellis on guitar and Ellis Brown on bass were many such references.

His influence extends to classical music which he attributed to his sister Daisy Sweeney. Discipline because it was one of the key skills he picked up when he began learning the piano from him.

Peterson has found a good friend and collaborator Norman Granz. Granz discovered him when he listens to Peterson to play in a club via a radio line. He was traveling in a taxi at the time. To hear him play, he asked the driver to take him immediately club where Oscar Peterson played.

Granz got him a concert at Carnegie Hall as part of his Jazz at the Philharmonic. Therefore, Granz served as his manager. Granz was behind Peterson in the fight against segregation. He stood between the trio and police trying to prevent them from traveling in "white taxis" only.

Peterson has been struggling with health problems throughout his life. He had arthritis since he could not button his own shirt. It was too heavy for its size that has affected his mobility. But physical problems or not, history will surely record as Oscar Peterson being one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time.

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