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Goodbye, Oscar Peterson

Jesse Walker | 12.26.2007 9:25 PM

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I don't know much about him -- just that I bought a copy of Encore at the Blue Note many years ago and it's a heck of a good album. Here's a clip of the man at work:

Peterson died of kidney failure on Sunday, at age 82. Rest in peace.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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