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Oscar Emmanuel Peterson est un pianiste et un compositeur de jazz canadien. Il est né le 15 août 1925 à Montréal, Québec, Canada et décédé ,le 23 décembre 2007. Il commença à apprendre la trompette et son père lui apprit à jouer du piano à l'âge de cinq ans, mais vers l’âge de sept ans il se consacra au piano. Il gagna rapidement une réputation de pianiste techniquement brillant et de pianiste de jazz mélodieusement inventif, et devint un invité régulier des radios. Il apparut la première fois au Carnegie Hall en 1949. Il joua et enregistra entre autres accompagné...

An exciting, serpentine solo maker in the mold of Don Cherry -- Peterson has chops but leaves precision to the wind in favor of spontaneous eruptions of melody. Peterson has a more well-rounded technique than Cherry, however, and plays with greater force. Unlike many contemporary free jazz players, Peterson is adept at older styles; he's played under such adventurous yet tradition-bound bandleaders as Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Gil Evans, and Elvin Jones, and with such dyed-in-the-wool avant-gardists as Roswell Rudd, Ken McIntyre, and Deidre Murray. As a youth, Peterson learned drums and cornet. He attended North Texas State University from 1967-1969...

Sir Shina Peters (born 30 May 1958) is a Nigerian Jùjú musician. Born Oluwashina Akanbi Peters in Ogun State, he invented Afro-juju in the late 1980s from Juju music. His immensely popular 1989 release Ace (Afro-Juju Series 1) thrust him back into the limelight after disappearing for some time. .