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If you're reading this book, you're likely an Oscar Peterson fan, and as such you won't be disappointed in this book. It tells you, I think, all you would like like to know about OP and more. I'm a big OP fan and am also an amateur jazz pianist, so I've always had a large curiosity about OP. How did he develop such amazing technique? Why was he so criticized by some of his contemporaries and critics? Why was he recorded SO much? Was he the victim of racism growing up in Canada (spoiler alert...yes).

All the answers to these and other questions are answered by this book. In the end, he's a human being with faults and shortcomings just like the rest of us. He doesn't come out looking infallible -- Lees provides an honest portrait, I believe. But he was an amazing figure in jazz and music in general. As the great Benny Green has said, "No one will ever play the piano as well as OP...ever."