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Tim, Kenny Newell and I first heard Oscar with Duke Ellingotn and Ella Fitzgerald when Jazz at the Philharmonic played the Oakland Coliseum Arena. It was an amazing night. (Parenthetically, this was the night Coleman Hawkins collapsed on stage while accompanied by Oscar. Hawkins passed away the next day.) Anyway, Peterson played chorus after chorus of hard-driving jazz piano. Didn’t know where all the ideas were coming from. We were in high school then, and just trying to figure out jazz improvisation, so it was a real lesson. In addition to the speed and technique, Oscar played great ballads, too. And his arrangements from “West Side Story” are also worth listening to. I think he was one of the first to bring back solo jazz piano in the 70s, along with Earl Hines, Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea, and that’s what we might have heard at El Matador. You could not order a drink requiring use of the blender while he played.