{"id":649,"date":"2007-10-29T02:24:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T06:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=649"},"modified":"2018-08-16T03:09:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T07:09:10","slug":"oscar-peterson-plays-duke-ellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=8848\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8848\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8848\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/https-_jazzinphoto.files_.wordpress.com_2012_11_carel-l-de-vogel-jazzpianist-oscar-peterson-1959-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"https _jazzinphoto.files.wordpress.com_2012_11_carel-l-de-vogel-jazzpianist-oscar-peterson-1959\" width=\"200\" height=\"249\"><\/a>It took me a long time to get into Oscar Peter\u00adson. His com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtions seem, at first, to be casu\u00adal lit\u00adtle puffs, dashed off effort\u00adlessly. This is an illu\u00adsion. As you let them sink in, you real\u00adize what incred\u00adi\u00adble pre\u00adci\u00adsion, con\u00adtrol, and sub\u00adtlety they have. Peter\u00adson is as cool as a plate of sliced cucum\u00adbers served on a bed of fresh\u00adly fall\u00aden snow, but there is an emo\u00adtional pow\u00ader behind it. The pre\u00adci\u00adsion itself becomes an emo\u00adtional state\u00adment: this is exact\u00adly how things should be, this is where this note belongs, this is the pre\u00adcise one hun\u00addredth of a sec\u00adond it should be struck.\u2026 see! Not for every\u00adone, but for those who feel it, it\u2019s ambrosia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Peter\u00adson is with\u00adout con\u00adtest Canada\u2019s jazz giant, the man who speaks for us. Duke Elling\u00adton is just as deeply Amer\u00adi\u00adcan. Their jazz pan\u00adtheon is so huge that he can\u2019t claim unchal\u00adlenged pri\u00admacy, but sure\u00adly he\u2019s among the great\u00adest Amer\u00adi\u00adcan jazzmen. Like Peter\u00adson, Elling\u00adton was a per\u00adfec\u00adtion\u00adist, a man who planned every note, a clas\u00adsi\u00adcist at heart. He didn\u2019t much resem\u00adble the trou\u00adbled, errat\u00adic genius\u00ades that peo\u00adple asso\u00adciate with jazz. His bril\u00adliance was so obvi\u00adous that noth\u00ading could keep his com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtions out of the sym\u00adphonic reper\u00adtoire, even in the 1920s. Elling\u00adton had a stronger, loud\u00ader voice than you hear in Peterson\u2019s del\u00adi\u00adcate, con\u00adtem\u00adpla\u00adtive com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtions. So is there a con\u00adflict? Hard\u00adly. Play\u00ading Elling\u00adton seems to have allowed Peter\u00adson to cut loose. You hear anoth\u00ader Peter\u00adson, sassier than when he played his own stuff. I love this record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me a long time to get into Oscar Peter\u00adson. His com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtions seem, at first, to be casu\u00adal lit\u00adtle puffs, dashed off effort\u00adlessly. This is an illu\u00adsion. As you let them sink in, you real\u00adize what incred\u00adi\u00adble pre\u00adci\u00adsion, control,&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=649\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-ct-listening-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8849,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/8849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}