Oscar Peterson grew up on the streets around his home on Delisle Street in Montral in those mean lean years just after the Great Depression He was the fourth of five children and all of the Peterson kids were introduced to music by their dad a porter with Canadian Pacific Railways who was a selftaught piano playerbrbrLearn more about a hrefhttpwwwnorthernstarscapetersonoscarbioOscar Emmanual PetersonabrAlso see a hrefhttpswwwnorthernstarscaoscarpetersonattiffOscar Peterson at TIFFabrbr
Features & TV Movies:
Begone Dull Care (1949)
Les tricheurs (aka, Youthful Sinners, 1958)
The Tender Game (1958)
Celebration (1966)
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
The Grove Tube (1974)
The Silent Partner (1978)
Fields of Endless Day (1978)
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