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Review of "Sleeping Giant" directed by Andrew Cividino and written by Cividino, Blain Watters and Aaron Yeger.

The minute-long video chronicles the seven-time Grammy winners rise from a working-class Montreal family to becoming a world-renowned piano virtuoso. It touches on his encounters with greatness, such as being dubbed "the man with four hands," and acknowledges the racism he faced at jazz gigs in the 1940s. Peterson died of kidney failure in 2007 at the age of 82. Both the English and French versions of the Heritage Minute feature end narration by Black Canadian pianists. Oliver Jones appears in ...

Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson's legendary career is being celebrated in a Heritage Minute. Historica Canada released the newest clip, timed for Black History Month, in its ongoing series that highlights influential figures from across the country.

TORONTO - Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson’s legendary career is being celebrated in a Heritage ...

Last Updated: Friday, February 19, 2021 10:39 It honours jazz legend and piano virtuoso Oscar Peterson, chronicling his rise from Montreal’s working-class Little Burgundy neighbourhood to world renown. WATCH: Thompson Egbo-Egbo play the role of Oscar Peterson: Peterson’s daughter Céline Peterson, a producer at the Kensington Market Jazz Festival in Toronto, believes her father would be thrilled and especially proud of seeing his story in a Heritage Minute. “I think this is one of t...