FACTBOX: Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson dies

Mon Dec 24, 2007 1:43pm EST
 
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Jazz great Oscar Peterson died on Sunday of kidney failure, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported. He was 82.

Here are some of the pianist's albums.

* "Evening with Oscar Peterson" (1950)

* "Oscar Peterson Plays Cole Porter" (1951)

* "Romance (The Vocal Styling of Oscar Peterson)" (1952)

* "The Oscar Peterson Quartet, No. 1" (1952)

* "The Trio Set" (1952)

* "Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington" (1952)

* "Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin" (1952)

* "Oscar Peterson Plays Irving Berlin" (1952)

* "Oscar Peterson Plays Richard Rodgers" (1952)

* "On the Town with the Oscar Peterson Trio" (1958)

* "Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Songbook" (1959)

* "Carnival" (1960)

* "Very Tall (1961)

* "Night Train" (1962)  Continued...

 
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