Oscar’s 100th anniversary ceremony is coming up in 2028, so I’ve decided to (re)watch and rate every Best Picture winner.

1st-
Wings
(William A. Wellman, 1927)
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

2nd-
The Broadway Melody
(Harry Beaumont, 1929)
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

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Window display with Oscar Peterson albums

A great display for the Oscar Peterson Centennial at Highlife Records in Vancouver
📷 Lane Frey

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Waldron in a red & black checked shirt, playing the piano while he smokes a cigarette.

Celebrate Mal Waldron's Centennial 🎂💯
📷 Alain Duasse, 2000

"Listening to Mr. Waldron was a fascinatingly dry, dark pleasure. He belonged to no particular school or style, and his curt piano style reflected that outsider status."
- Ben Ratliff

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Happy Heavenly Birthday, Oscar Peterson

Just adore this version. Beautiful cut from a beautiful record

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I watch this clip of Dick Cavett in conversation with Oscar Peterson regularly.

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Album cover: Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Song Book A man & a woman talk together over coffee at a cafe table

Album cover: Oscar Peterson Plays the Jerome Kern Song Book A woman in a fur-lined coat sits in a fancy hotel lobby

Album cover: Oscar Peterson Plays the Richard Rodgers Song Book A man in a white shirt talks with a blonde woman in a red dress

Album cover: Oscar Peterson Plays the Jimmy McHugh Song Book A woman in a park with flowers. Behind her is a street scene.

You can add a fourth to the Oscar Peterson Trio:

Oscar Peterson on piano
Ray Brown on bass
Ed Thigpen on drums
Merle Shore on paintbrush

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Album cover A woman in a red raincoat & umbrella walks in Central Park

On Oscar Peterson's Centennial I'm listening to the 1959 album "Oscar Peterson Plays The Cole Porter Songbook", with Ed Thigpen & Ray Brown.

The lovely rainy day cover painting is by Merle Shore.

A rainy morning here in Victoria!

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A large mural painted on the side of a three story building, showing Oscar at the piano, & large second shot of him with his hand to his chin.

Detail of the mural: Oscar plays the piano, with Montreal in the background.

Gene Pendon's Oscar Peterson Mural, "Jazz Born Here", at the corner of Saint-Jacques & des Seigneurs Streets in Montréal, painted in 2011.

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The strings of a piano soundboard superimposed over a shot of Oscar Peterson

From Eliot Elisofon's Jazz Essay blooper-reel

"Help! My name is Oscar Peterson, & I'm trapped inside my piano!"

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A smiling Oscar at the keyboard

Oscar Peterson by Ed Perlstein
Berkeley, May 1978

"If Art Tatum was the 'God' of the jazz piano, then his protege, Oscar Peterson, was his only-begotten son."
- from Downbeat's obituary, Dec. 26, 2007

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Album cover Oscar The Personal Touch Pablo Today Oscar turns to look at the camera, sitting at the piano

Oscar Peterson's 1980 album The Personal Touch featured songs written by or made popular by Canadians 🇨🇦

With his long-time collaborator, Canadian guitarist Ed Bickert

Oscar sings!

"I'll Never Smile Again" (Canadian Ruth Lowe wrote the lyrics)

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Profile shot of Oscar pointing a camera with a long lens. He turns to the camera & smiles.

Oscar shoots back!
📷 M. Stroud, London, 1963

"He always performed as if making the music was the most fun it was possible for a human being to have."
- John Fordham

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Oscar at the piano, a stage light & his bassist behind him Photo from 2003

Bill Evans at the piano, head down Photo from 1977

"It was said that Liszt conquered the piano, Chopin seduced it. Oscar Peterson is our Liszt & Bill Evans is our Chopin."
- Lalo Schifrin

Photos by Guy Le Querrec

#Oscar100 is the beginning of The Great Jazz Piano Weekend. Tomorrow is Bill Evans' birthday; with Duke Pearson's on the 17th.

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*Nobody* smiles like Oscar!

Album cover Oscar Carnegie at Carnegie Clef Record Oscar in a red suit stands at a piano. In the background, Carnegie Hall with a marquee: "Oscar Peterson - Norman Granz Production".

David Stone Martin's great illustration graces the cover of Oscar Peterson at Carnegie, 1950

With Ray Brown

"Carnegie Blues"

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Oscar, Ray & Herb play together on stage

Oscar Peterson's great trio with Ray Brown & Herb Ellis
📷 Dennis Stock, Newport, 1958

"A Foggy Day"

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Oscar plays a piano in his living room

Celebrate the Oscar Peterson Centennial 🎂💯
📷 Ted Williams, for Down Beat, 1959

"Peterson’s rock-solid sense of swing, grounded in Count Basie, is balanced by a delicacy of tone and fleetness of touch that make his extended runs seem to almost disappear into the sky."
- Stephen Holden

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Oscar at the keyboard. Behind him, a glimpse of Ray Brown & his bass.

Getting ready for tomorrow’s Oscar Peterson Centennial 🎂💯

📷 Carel de Vogel, 1959

I’m listening to his 1963 album Night Train, with Ray Brown on bass & Ed Thigpen on drums.

With Peterson’s “Hymn to Freedom”, one of Canada’s greatest songs. 🇨🇦

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