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Im pretty amazed that he use so much analog and digital synth gear, but for him it was probably a way to listen to he's song before giving to the big horn section and other member, it give him a good overall view of the music he intend to make with acoustic instruments, the synclavier was also able to print music notation on paper. But it could be fun, if like Zappa he made a full electronic Jazz album with the gear he have or a mix with acoustic instruments could be fun.

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Loved this song as kid. Brings back great memories, thanks for posting

This is an amazing version, rest in peace David ❤

I wonder how much his view was opened up once he befriended Keith Emerson (keyboardist with the progressive rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer). They made a video together. (Search YT for "Keith Emerson and Oscar Peterson".) It's worth reminding people that for the synthesizer the keyboard is merely a "trigger." It is not inherently a musical keyboard, per se. That is, an electronics synthesizer keyboard can just as easily be set up as a volume trigger (getting louder and louder as one goes from the left keys to the right keys), or to blend in more and more synthesized sound as one hits the higher keys, or set up for many other kinds of audio triggers, as much as being a pitch trigger (like a piano keyboard, with lower pitches on the left and higher pitches on the right keys). And of course electronic synthesizers have very different keyboard "action" than a piano key's action. That is, they feel completely different from the way piano keys feel. So it's really a completely different instrument. I love this era of electronic music - the video really shows the golden age of electronic instrument development, with all the patch bays and separate ADSR and other components. That was the real fertile period of technical development of the synthesizer.

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A legend.😊

Oh yeah

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Damn, look at all those wires 😂

Rnb?

Where have I heard that synclavier part before?

The single note crescendo. The pianists kryptonite.

Amazing Oscar Peterson playing his Synclavier.

Around 3:27 you can hear that same language he uses at the beginning of his solo on C-Jam Blues on the Night Train album ❤️

Still... piano

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So bizarre to see someone as incredible as Peterson so interested in making dreck

Accidentally ring-modulated

Looks like he's playing he exact same stuff as the recording in this vid. I am amazed.

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1:22 is that OP jr?

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What documentary is this off?

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That synth is the size of a blue whale's cock.

This actually makes me wonder how jazz would have sounded if electronic synthesisers and other electronic instruments were used as early as the 40's. We'd probably get a lot of other worldly lofi sounding songs

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Do you know what year this footage was filmed and/or released? Thanks ❤

Where are the synth tapes ??!!

I wonder if thats his Picasso and what its worth now

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Synths!!!!!🥶💪🏿

Did he ever put any synth material out tho hmmm

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Imagine getting all the great musicians of all time into a room like this. What could they have come up with?

He’s probably got a whole;e fridge unit of a computer tied to that VT100 terminal!

If Oscar Peterson had teamed up with Rick Wakeman this world would have exploded.

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When he was laying down tracks, that was way back in the old days on how they did it. All those wires you had to plug in this and plug in that before you could even start to record. He was one of the GREATEST. R.I. P. Mr. Patterson.

Oscar got sucked into the never-ending wormhole of sound searching. haha You spend 98.2% of your time previewing sounds and .8% wondering why you can't get a song finished.

That younger guy with Oscar, at 2:47, kinda looks like Billy Preston! But I didn't see that name in the credits.

I know exactly what he's talking about

Incredible. Did he ever record the synthesizer album he mentioned?

Also, is it fair to say those of the level of Oscar Peterson have been synthesizing throughout their pro careers? I think so.

This is the very first time I've ever seen a world class pianist such as an Oscar Peterson tinker with synthesization stuff. I see that this video was done probably when such equipment was just coming out and still in fairly early development. Regardless, so cool to see an iconoclastic musician having some fun with synth.

I am pretty stunned to learn that the jazz giant whose very initials are OP…turns out that he was also an avid synth explorer!

Oscar Peterson, Nat King Cole and Bill Evans, and Chick Corea. My favorites.