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Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (Montreal, 15 de agosto de 1925 -- 23 de dezembro de 2007), foi um pianista de jazz canadense. Oscar Peterson é considerado por muitos críticos como um dos maiores pianistas de jazz de todos os tempos, famoso por sua virtuosidade. Morreu em 23 de dezembro de 2007, de insuficiência renal, aos 82 anos de idade. Seus parceiros musicais mais constantes são os contrabaixistas Ray Brown e Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen e os guitarristas Herb Ellis e Joe Pass. Começou a estudar trompete e piano com seu pai aos cinco anos de idade. Após uma tuberculose dedicou-se ao piano....

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. .