record_label oscar peterson plays the duke ellington song book
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson , ( August 15 , 1925  December 23 , 2007 ) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer . He was called the " Maharaja of the keyboard " by Duke Ellington , but simply " O . P ." by his friends . He released over 200 recordings , won eight Grammy Awards , and received numerous other awards and honours . He is considered one of the greatest jazz pianists , and played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years . Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book is a 1957 ___MASK15___ by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald , accompanied by the Duke Ellington orchestra , focusing on Ellington ' s songs . Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington is an ___MASK58___ by Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson , of songs associated with Duke Ellington released in 1952 on ___MASK75___ . Peterson re - recorded much of the music for his 1959 ___MASK58___ " Oscar Peterson Plays the Duke Ellington Songbook ". A Grammy Award ( originally called Gramophone Award ), or Grammy , is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly ___MASK63___ - language music industry . The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists , and the presentation of those awards that have a more popular interest . It shares recognition of the music industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards ( television ), the Tony Awards ( stage performance ), and the Academy Awards ( motion pictures ). Oscar Peterson Plays the Duke Ellington Song book is a 1959 ___MASK58___ by pianist Oscar Peterson of compositions written or performed by Duke Ellington . Peterson had recorded many of the pieces for his 1952 ___MASK58___ Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington , and had recently performed with Ella Fitzgerald on her 1957 ___MASK58___ , Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song book ___MASK75___ was an American jazz ___MASK91___ ___MASK17___ founded by Norman Granz in 1946 . It became part of ___MASK29___ , which Granz created in 1956 . Clef recordings were , in the mid 1950s , licensed to Columbia ( UK ) who issued 78rpm discs with a special white ___MASK17___ and the Clef logo . A pianist is an individual musician who plays the piano . Most forms of Western music can make use of the piano . Consequently , pianists have a wide variety of repertoire and styles to choose from , including traditionally classical music , Jazz , blues and all sorts of popular music , including ___MASK31___ . Most pianists can , to a certain extent , play other keyboard - related instruments such as the synthesizer , harpsichord , celesta and the organ and keyboard . Perhaps the greatest pianist of all time was Franz Liszt , whose piano mastery was described by Anton Rubinstein : " In comparison with Liszt , all other pianists are children ". ___MASK31___ is a genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll " in the United States in the 1950s , and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later , particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States . It has its roots in 1940s ' and 1950s ' rock and roll , itself heavily influenced by blues , rhythm and blues and ___MASK2___ . ___MASK31___ also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk , and incorporated influences from jazz , classical and other musical sources . Ella Jane Fitzgerald ( April 25 , 1917  June 15 , ___MASK65___ ) was an American jazz singer often referred to as the First Lady of Song , Queen of Jazz and Lady Ella . She was noted for her purity of tone , impeccable diction , phrasing and intonation , and a " horn - like " improvisational ability , particularly in her scat singing .