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Oscar Collins Pettiford (* 30. September 1922 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma; † 8. September 1960 in Kopenhagen) war ein Jazz- Musiker, Arrangeur und Komponist, der Kontrabass und Cello spielte und als einer der bedeutenden Musiker des Modern Jazz gilt. Oscar Pettiford, von seinen Kollegen O.P. genannt, war mit Charlie Parker und Dizzy Gillespie ein ...
Oscar Pettiford (September 30, 1922 – September 8, 1960) [1] was an American jazz double bassist, cellist and composer. He was one of the earliest musicians to work in the bebop idiom. Jazz bassist Christian McBride called Pettiford "probably the most important bass player of that bebop generation in terms of creating new language for the bass."
19. Okt. 2023 · Oscar Pettiford: 1955-'58. Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers May 22, 2017. In the spring of 1956, bassist Oscar Pettiford (pictured above with cello), in tandem with producer Creed Taylor, began assembling musicians and arrangers for what would become one of the hippest and sexiest big bands of the mid-decade period. Two albums were recorded a year ...
30. Sept. 2022 · And today — Friday, Sept. 30, 2022 — marks exactly 100 years since that jazz pioneer, Oscar Pettiford, was born. Pettiford got his start on the stages of the Twin Cities, helping create a "Minneapolis sound" long before Prince — a sound that forever changed American music.
Butch Ballard, drums1. Oscar Pettiford played bass in Ellington’s Big Band from 1945 to 1948, where he worked on multiple records and concerts with Ellington. In 1949, Pettiford broke his arm and started playing a cello while his arm was still in a sling.2 He then became one the only musicians who played cello as a horn with a jazz big band.
Oscar Pettiford (b. Okmulgee, Oklahoma, September 30, 1922; d. Copenhagen, Denmark, September 8, 1960) was an American jazz bassist, cellist and composer known particularly for his pioneering work in bebop. In 1942 he joined the Charlie Barnet band and in 1943 gained wider public attention after recording with Coleman Hawkins on his "The Man I ...
Pettiford was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma; his mother was Choctaw and his father was half Cherokee and half African American. He grew up playing in the family band, in which he sang and danced before switching to piano at the age of 12, then to double bass when he was 14. Despite being admired by the likes of Milt Hinton at the age of 14, he gave up in 1941, as he did not believe he could make ...
