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Oscar Peterson
February 1, 2024
Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson’s legendary career is celebrated in thisĀ Heritage Minute. The minute-long video chronicles the seven-time Grammy winner’s 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.