| Copenhagen, 8 Sept 1960).Double bass player, Cellist, and bandleader.Pettiford was born into a large musical family and consequently learned
many instruments in the cource of participating in the band's travels.Recorded with many prominent jazz musicians of the day including, Dizzy
Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, and later, Thelonius Monk.Considered one of the learning standards of Bop bass playing.Also helped bring
the double bass to the foreground as a solo instrument.Born on a Native American reservation in Oklahoma, Oscar played in a family band of ten children that became popular in the west.York and worked with Roy Eldridge.He also was part of the Duke Ellington Orchestra from 1945 to 1948.Kai Winding All
Stars.Rare Live Recordings RLR 88631
(Andorra 2007).To be analyzed
next time.Article in Down about Stan Getz' life in
Copenhagen.Thanks, Pete, for copies!One night OP subs for Doug Watkins.How I met Oscar Pettiford.Succumb To Temptations 590822.Kenny Dorham and
Cannonball Adderley in 1959.More corrections by Fernando Ortiz de
Urbina.The Minneapolis jam session 390921: there is no
drummer.Bainbridge, for the hint.Fernando Ortiz de
Urbina: the dates for the Newport 57 festival are early July, not late.Fernando Ortiz de Urbina is working on a discography of Eddie Costa.Bassists take the
third line.Ignore the treble clef and the accidentals in brackets.Hopefully there will be an edition in the U.Small's Paradise in Harlem w.August 9, 2007 Lionel
Hampton and His All Stars 5608.My Man and Over The Rainbow, but this is due
to an error.There is no new material.August 2, 2007 Two CDs produced
by Jordi Pujol for Fresh Sound Records: Oscar Pettiford: In a Cello Mood.No new materials, but a fine issue
featuring Oscar's work on cello.The booklet has some rare
photographs.Thanks, Pete and
Paul, for the hint!Red Rodney Group without Oscar Pettiford.Mitsuo Johfu sent a tape of
the broadcast, which obviously belongs to Oscar Pettiford's biography, too.You can hear Signature 90001: The
Man I Love, 431223.Today: volumes 37 to 39: 460518, 460525, 460601, 460608.Michael Steinman about The Complete Big Band
Studio Recordings.Thank you again, Michael!Ella Fitzgerald, Lou
Levy p, the Austrian All Stars, Fatty George, Hans Koller, Oscar Pettiford a.Thanks, Paul, for the info!Michael Griffes sent info about the
Helen Merrill recital 600402.Fabulous', 'Unhappy', 'Melodic',
'Frantic', 'Mercurial', 'Illustrious'.Oscar' first date with the Duke).New Ellingtonia from Pete Bainbridge,
part 1.Golden Feather 470107, Azalea and Orchids For Madame
470610.Duke Ellington at Ciro's 470725, 470730, and 470801.Additions to Ivory Joe Hunter 471205.Pete Bainbridge sent copies of the tapes.Duke Ellington Treasury Shows D.It has all master takes from 520313.Uwe Weiler sent more fine
scans: Billy Eckstine 440413.Paris, but it belongs to an SWF
broadcast from Karlsruhe, Germany).Yes , I am alive
and well.Ruhr area, and that was the reason why I did not see my
record player for months.Pete Bainbridge located
more Ellingtonia, and version 7 of Tom Lord's discography arrived.September 18, 2006 Duke Ellington at Cornell University
470419.Corrected personnel of the
Kurt Edelhagen orch.Bohemias
Original Music Director, Oscar Pettiford.With special guest Ron Carter.Oscar Pettiford's last concert 600904.More Ellingtonia
contributed by Paul Benkimoun: El Patio Ballroom, Denver 470701 to 470708.Frank DeVito with Pettiford's group at Snooky's on
57th.Oscar Pettiford Quartet at the Montmartre Club,
Copenhagen; 59 (second half).Thanks, Joseph Scott, for the info!Oscar Pettiford Memorial Concert in
Denmark is 601001, not 610901.Amsterdam 6004 (after the Essen concert).OP in films on the site.We start with the film JAM
SESSION (1944).This band was thought to have not recorded.Barnet Orchestra with Chubby Jackson, OP, and a third bassist (!Another very interesting internet resource is J.You will find broadcasts like AFRS One Night Stand, The Mildred Bailey
Show...Haenning made 'I've Got A Song'.Duke Ellington: The Hollywood Bowl Concert 470831.Africans and Native
Americans (s.The Alternate Takes in Chronological Order.Magazine from March 1955, and its
source.We mentioned Mitsuo Johfu's
record company called Marshmallow.Bill Spilka 570526, and confirmed that
Oscar's bass is now owned by a Danish bassist.Friday, Dec 23, Paul Benkimoun talked with Alain Gerber et Jean Louis
Chautemps about Oscar Pettiford, and presented some rarities.Manor 1000 to cd: the Milt Page Trio 44, and a reported jam session 600308.Von Babasin, Harry Babasin's son,
sent a mail.Two of the songs I listed as Oscar Pettiford songs
were composed by Harry Babasin.He is the sole composer of In A
Cello Mood and Monti Cello.Django Reinhardt's Ride Red Ride 461110.Wonderful contributions by Pete
Bainbridge.Al Cohn Memorial Jazz Collection at East Stroudsberg University where
Coover's collection was donated.Oscar Pettiford Memorial Concert.Phil Schaap's research allowed corrections concerning Oscar's first date as a leader
450109.Get The Message 600708,
and two numbers from Telecast 'Music '55' (Stan Kenton Orch.Does anybody know if the movie survived?He sent a fine personal
portrait.Buddy de Franco session 490423 is now available on a Japanese CD.Gollihur's Double Bass Links Page.Noal Cohen corrected the entry 560121 (Milt
Jackson).Lurlean Hunter with Phil Moore 570506, 08, 10.Jazz From Carnegie Hall 5809.It helped to correct some of Coover Gazdar's entries.The Story of Kenny Clarke".There is an index in the English version.Blues" which has three titles from the Estelle Edson session 46.OP and Max Roach 570423.Coover Gazdar's music collection (ca.East Stroudsberg University of Pennsylvania.Bainbridge sent copies of Coover Gazdar's tapes: more than nine hours of music!Duke Ellington Treasury shows.Davis 51 (summer) and 5201.Fitzgerald, is full of new insights.Suite began as a sort of prequel to Sonny Rollins's Freedom Suite.Overwater won the Edison award for his CD "OP".Jubilee Broadcast '152 (451015) on CD.Broadcast from Rendezvous Ballroom, Balboa, CA.Carter CD dedicated to OP.Oscar Pettiford that made his bass playing so progressive.Oscar Pettiford, Boyd Raeburn, Sammy Price, Sid Catlett, Estelle
Edson, Beryl Booker, The Lamplighter's Jazz Sessions a.Leif Bo Petersen is currently working on a biography of Fats
Navarro.Oscar Pettiford, too, which he did not hesitate to communicate.Coming soon: contributions by Paul Haynes and Josef Becky Scott.Oscar Pettiford's BMI credits.Your Jazz 560313 was completed.Leonard Feather's West Coast vs.Don't miss Eric's website!The Ray Charles Trio 560430 on CD.Coover Gazdar's entry for Marcy Lutes 5702.Many thanks, Uwe Weiler!OP is named as the composer, Gil Fuller as the arranger.For Sale 590715 is on Dusko Goykovich's 70th Birthday Celebration.Flemish personality of the past 700 years.Pater Damiaan and Eddy Merckx.It contains some interesting etudes and compositions by OP.OP payed the bus ticket.IAJRC (International Association of Jazz Record
Collectors).We are on holidays till July 21!Pettiford cello session 5306.Marcy Lutes session 5702.Quartet 57 (late summer), Helen Merrill with Bobby Jaspar 580221.Edwards, and Patrice Eyries.CD are in fact by Art Blakey's big band, without OP.Know Your Jazz" session 560313.Lionel Hampton All Star session 5608!Marco: For Bass Faces Only.Transcription of the bass part.Transcription of the bass part.Callahan, David Edwards, and Patrice Eyries.Robert: Back to the Bass.Thank You, Oscar Pettiford.Oscar Pettiford's BMI credits.The Charlie Christian Web Site.Social and Musical History.Ehrenzeller, Richard: Oscar Pettiford.Bulletin No 4, Dec 2000.Feather, Leonard: The Jazz Years.The Leonard Feather
Scrapbooks.Africans and Native Americans.Black Peoples, University of Illinois Press, Urbana
and Chicago, 1993.Erik: Cello in Jazz
Gazdar, Coover: First Bass.The Oscar Pettiford Discography.An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the
Forties.Gitler, Ira: The Masters of Bebop.Berkeley, CA, Berkeley Hill Books 2002.Comments Concerning Men Like Ellington, Blanton, And Diz.Hoefer, George: Oscar Pettiford.In: Jazz Journal vol 26 no 7 (August 1973).Does anyone know this interview?West Vancouver, British Columbia, CA.Massagli, Luciano, and Giovanni M.Nahrmann, Volker: The Music of Oscar Pettiford.Volume 2 is ready, but still unpublished.Pettiford, Oscar, and Erik Moseholm: Jazz Bass Facing.More Than a
Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet.Oscar's first big band job was Charlie Barnet (Jan."Are you sure you want to block this user?"Listen to him," said Dizzy.Charlie Mingus and Oscar Pettiford."What a wonderful and inspiring player.I've made several of Oscar's transcriptions a requirement for my Webster University bass students.He was one of the greats!Hello and thank for the add!Grazie mille per l'amicizia.Thank you so much for the friendship.This includes information on how to submit events and materials to Bass Musician Magazine for consideration as well as free virtual subscriptions and advertising rates for listings in our Marketplace and Directory.And drop us a line and let us know what you think!Max Roach has left the building.Him, Dizzy, Bird, Bud, and OP are probably playing "Salt Peanuts" right about now.An honour to be added, I'm in Minor 7th Heaven.MUSIC and check out your profile.God be with you and with your MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Oscar, along with Jimmy Blanton, Captain Ray and Charlie Mingus are without doubt the 4 greatest bassist to have ever picked up the instrument.Oscar Pettiford is one of my bass heroes and one of the best bass players that ever walked the earth.His tone, intonation and note selection were always top notch, thanks Oscar.Come out and hear some great jazz from a great quintet next Friday night at Port City Java in Bernardsville, NJ.OP, Your contribution revolutionized the Contrabass !!!Fantastic bass player will always be a huge inspiration to me."Urgent Security Alert","Warning: You are submitting information to an outside site.Id + " Link: " + targetLink.Id + " Text: " + targetLink.Click your browser's Refresh button to try reconnecting.Click here to return to the MSN Entertainment home page or click this link for help."Oscar Pettiford on MSN Music";s.Charts
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