Oscar Peterson’s Death – Cause and Date

The pianist Oscar Peterson died at the age of 82. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Considered one of the greatest jazz artists of all time. He was awarded eight Grammys and released over 200 recordings.

He was married four times and fathered seven children.

Oscar Peterson, whose dazzling piano playing made him one of the most popular jazz artists in history, died on Sunday night at his home in Mississauga, Ontario, outside Toronto. He was 82. The cause was kidney failure, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

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Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

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I play as I feel.

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I don’t do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn’t care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

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I am the worlds laziest writer.

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I don’t believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos.