For those exploring Freemasonry, we are including pages on Music and Masons, featuring musicians who were/are Freemasons.

This page features Canadian jazz legend Oscar Peterson.

Here are some videos of Oscar Peterson:

This is Oscar Peterson teaching a Master Class in 1997:

This video features the Oscar Peterson Trio performing with sax great Dexter Gordon in 1969.

Oscar Peterson and sax great Ben Webster in Hanover, Germany 1972:

Here’s another longer video of Oscar Peterson and Ben Webster in Hanover, 1972:

Oscar Peterson at Ronnie Scott’s in London, 1974:

This video features Oscar Peterson and Count Basie (also a Freemason) at the Prague Jazz Festival in 1974.

Here’s another video of Oscar Peterson and Count Basie, this time with guitarist Joe Pass in 1980. This program features discussions between the musicians:

This is a documentary called Music In The Key Of Oscar

This is an audio only YouTube file (the visual is static throughout) of Oscar Peterson Songbooks, featuring Oscar Peterson playing music from Cole Porter, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin. The information we have on these recordings are that they were recorded in Los Angeles, December 1952 with Oscar Peterson – piano; Barney Kessel – guitar; Ray Brown – bass. Note: there is advertising that appears at various points in this one.

Some Recommended Oscar Peterson Recordings

CD cover, Oscar Peterson Trio, Night Train - Verve Records
CD cover, Oscar Peterson Trio, Night Train – Verve Records

This album is available on Amazon.ca;

CD cover, Sonny Stitt Sits In With The Oscar Peterson Trio - Verve Records
CD cover, Sonny Stitt Sits In With The Oscar Peterson Trio – Verve Records

This album is available on Amazon.ca;

Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio - CD cover
Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio – CD cover

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Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio - CD cover
Stan Getz And The Oscar Peterson Trio – CD cover

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