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Lightning Fingers

December 9, 2006 By Kyle Gann

YouTube offers an incredible Oscar Peterson performance. Make sure you go past 2:44, when he goes crazy. Peterson received an honorary doctorate at Northwestern the year I got my regular doctorate there (1983), so I was once on a stage with him. But not playing.

12/9/06 11:39 PM | filed under: main |

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Bob says:

December 11, 2006 at 5:39 am

FYI- He’s wonderful!

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