Young - OSCAR PETERSON Jazz Pianist & Composer 8x10 photo by Phil Stern RARE

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8x10 black & white photo printed on light card stock - Jazz Pianist Oscar Peterson
Photo by Photographer Phil Stern - RARE to see a photo of Oscar so young in a publicity photo
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec, Order of Ontario
August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007
a Canadian virtuoso jazz pianist and composer.
He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, as well as a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy, and received numerous other awards and honors. He is considered one of history's great jazz pianists and played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years. He was called the
"Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, simply "O.P." by his friends, and informally in the jazz community as "the King of inside swing".
He was called "the Brown Bomber of the Boogie-Woogie"
Pianist of the year, DownBeat magazine, 1950, and won again for the next 12 years
Grammy Awards
1975 Best Jazz Performance by a Group The Trio
1977 Best Jazz Performance by a Soloist The Giants
1978 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist Oscar Peterson Jam – Montreux '77
1979 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist Oscar Peterson and The Trumpet Kings – Jousts
1990 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group Live at the Blue Note
1990 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist The Legendary Oscar Peterson Trio Live at the Blue Note
1991 Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group Saturday Night at the Blue Note
1997 Lifetime Achievement Award Instrumental Soloist Lifetime Achievement