George Winston Strikes Keys for Local Charity Sep 20, 2008
"Stride piano, which was the main way of playing that I worked on after hearing Fats Waller and Teddy Wilson, and third, folk piano, the style that I came up with in 1971, which is influenced and inspired by instrumental Rrock, North American folk music and even more by the sound of the piano itself.". Tickets for the event $20-$25 and non-perishable food donations are encouraged. (The Daily Universe, UT)
Obituary: Oscar Peterson Dec 28, 2007
At 14, Oscar won a local radio talent contest, worked in his late teens on a weekly Montreal radio show and was also a regular member of the Johnny Holmes Orchestra, playing in an elegant swing keyboard style drawn from Teddy Wilson, Tatum and Nat King Cole. Though he had studied trumpet too, childhood illness led him to abandon it for the piano, and he practised constantly, an irrepressible enthusiasm mingling with natural gifts to build a fully two-handed technique that rivalled that of... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Jazz World Mourns Oscar Peterson Dec 27, 2007
" His favorites were piano greats Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson and Erroll Garner, artists whose recordings were beamed across the border from American radio stations. Peterson said his education in jazz came primarily from the airwaves and jukeboxes. "We were working mainly on what we heard from on the American networks and records," he said. "And, of course, coupled with the occasional appearance of people like [Duke] Ellington, [Count] Basie, the big names in jazz. And at that time, certainly,... (Voice of America)
Music Man Returns Dec 26, 2007
He was big on Tatum, Garner and Teddy Wilson. "It came naturally," Kallao says. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Canadian Oscar Peterson remembered as jazz legend Dec 25, 2007
His influences are said to be Teddy Wilson, Nat King Cole and Art Tatum. Peterson's first national exposure in Canada came when he was 14, when his older sister Daisy arranged for him to audition for a national amateur competition. (CTV.ca)
Oscar Peterson, 82, jazz's piano virtuoso, dies Dec 25, 2007
Whitney Balliett, the jazz critic of The New Yorker, wrote in 1966 that Peterson's playing "continues to be a pudding made of the leavings of Art Tatum, Nat Cole and Teddy Wilson.". The critical ambivalence was typified in 1973 in a review of a Peterson performance by John S. Wilson of The Times. (International Herald Tribune)
Oscar Peterson, Jazz Pianist Who Played With Gillespie, Parker, Dies at 82 Dec 25, 2007
He soon discarded that beat for the swing style of Teddy Wilson and Nat King Cole. His technique was quite brilliant even at that early stage, and although he had not yet been touched by the influence of bop, he was already a very impressive player,'' wrote Scott Yanow of the All Music Guide. (Bloomberg -- Canada)
Pick out a box set for every musical taste Nov 23, 2007
Among the highlights are Teddy Wilson's late-'30s chamber recordings, the recording debut of Roy Eldridge, key tracks by Fletcher Henderson, Bessie Smith's final session and a session led by Gene Krupa and Benny Goodman ... Backed mainly by Teddy Wilson's Orchestra or her own, both of which featured some of the giants of jazz, Holiday grows from raw young singer to the incomparable jazz diva ... Billie Holiday, Rare Live Recordings 1934-1959ESP, 5 CDs, $127 Foundation: The 128 tracks here... (USA Today -- Life)
Mardi Gras concert in Fairhaven this evening Feb 18, 2007
Mr. Nossiter has performed both here and abroad with Bobby Hackett, Wild Bill Davison, Teddy Wilson, Jimmy Rushing, Dave McKenna and the Preservation Hall Band, among others. Bob Kidd, trumpet, has a doctorate from Boston University and is professor emeritus at Cape Cod Community Colege. (The Standard-Times, MA)
Ellis Larkins Feb 5, 2007
It is clear that he once listened attentively to Earl Hines and Teddy Wilson, and possibly to Jess Stacy ... I heard a lot of jazz on the radio [cups one ear, as if listening] Fats Waller and Count Basie and Earl Hines and Teddy Wilson and I caught all the big bands at the Royal Theatre ... Teddy Wilson had a sextet there, too, with Emmett Berry and Ed Hall and Benny Morton and Sid Catlett, and we alternated playing for dancing between the floor shows. (New Yorker)
