It’s from a 1958 interview with Nat Hentoff in the The Jazz Review, later reprinted in co-editor Martin Williams’s collection Jazz Panorama. The whole passage where Davis talks about Peterson is quite specific and ultimately less harsh than this pull quote implies. Out of context, his comment that Peterson had to “learn” to play the blues shows Davis at his worst. He even had to learn how to play the blues.”ĭavis is not always right when he criticizes people and sometimes he is just mean-spirited. Many of the obits mentioned the negative appraisal of Peterson by his most famous critic, Miles Davis, often with the Davis quote, “ Oscar makes me sick because he copies everybody. The great Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson died at 82 on December 24 last year. The similarities are striking: perhaps I subconsciously remembered Williams when working on my own essay.) In 2010 I rediscovered Martin Williams’s appraisal of Oscar Peterson, “Four Pianists: Four Minority Views” reprinted in Jazz Changes. Don’t miss Mark Stryker’s article on Louis Hayes, reprinted in full at the bottom.
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