Oscar Peterson

[dewline]

We lost a great Canadian musician today.

Details here.

Comments

[norda.livejournal.com]

Damn it.

I'm literally listening to his Christmas album right now.

[alexjay.livejournal.com]

No, we didn't.

We lost a great musician, period.

Wait ...

Again, "No, we didn't."

We have almost sixty years of his brilliance, recorded for our great pleasure, to have around.
He may not be with us in body anymore, but in spirit and in music he will forever live on.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

There is truth to all of that.

We're still going to treat him as "ours", though...

*sad smile*

[thothmeister.livejournal.com]

Damn.

The concert hall at my university (Concordia in Montreal) was named for him years ago. He got to see that tribute... but this now makes Christmas start with bad news 3 years in a row: the Tsunami, James Brown and now this.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Now that concert hall's on my List of Places to See During Future Visits to Montréal. Thank you for that, Jeff.

As to the rest of it...I know the feeling too well by now.

[alexjay.livejournal.com]

Well, of course. He had a HUGE affinity for his home country--and it was returned in full.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry for the timing of the news.

Glad you have the album to listen to, though...

Apologies...

[dewline.livejournal.com]

...as that was me.

[thothmeister.livejournal.com]

It's one of the nicest-looking additions to the already nice-looking Loyola campus. I had my graduation ceremony there, before it was renamed.