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Eddie Palmieri performs for NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert in 2016.

Video Credit: NPR Music

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11/22/1987

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Tarik Kiswanson

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Remembering Oscar Peterson on his birthday (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007).

Oscar Peterson – Tenderly

This concert, recorded in the summer of 1958 at the Orpheum Theater in Vancouver, Canada, finds the group in top form. Oscar Peterson – piano Ray Brown – bass Herb Ellis – guitar

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The Oscar Peterson Centennial

Born 100 years ago today, the great jazz pianist Oscar Peterson (1925-2007), a.k.a. “O.P.” There was much to set Peterson apart from his contemporaries in the jazz field of his day. First, he was not American. Like Guy Lombardo, he was Canadian, born and raised in Montreal to parents who were immigrants from the Caribbean. Straightaway this gave him a different cultural perspective than…

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Today, August 15th 2025, would have been Oscar Peterson’s 100th birthday. He’s one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, please look him up and listen to his work!!

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Mark Seliger, 'Tom Waits, 'GQ'', June 2002

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Pizzicato Pussycat (1955)

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08/02/1953

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Charles Mingus, Roy Haynes, Charlie Parker & Thelonious Monk 1953

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Wendy Carlos’s Moog Modular synthesizer.

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American-born French dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker, Hamburg, 1925.

Photographer: Emil Bieber

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Leo Strauss.

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Portrait of jazz musician, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington and guitarist Django Reinhardt at piano. Handwritten on front: “Duke Ellington and Django Reinhardt.” Handwritten on back: “Django Reinhardt & Ellington.”

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