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Uploaded by jjvanka on Jan 5, 2008
1964 recording
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Here's a secret. Black people played this fast, because white people started to take swing from us, so in order to stay 5 steps ahead of the white man Oscar, and other Be-bop artist had to play fast, just to keep the white folks at bay.
Dontaking2008 1 month ago
Fantastic!
KatzenImNebel 3 years ago
It seems Oscar knew how to play his piano
cornificius22vain 3 years ago
just love this stuff
mlindgreen 4 years ago
The tuning is a bit weird in parts of this (I think its the recording) but the playing is phenomenal.
keyboardmum 4 years ago
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Here's a secret. Black people played this fast, because white people started to take swing from us, so in order to stay 5 steps ahead of the white man Oscar, and other Be-bop artist had to play fast, just to keep the white folks at bay.
Dontaking2008 1 month ago
Fantastic!
KatzenImNebel 3 years ago
It seems Oscar knew how to play his piano
cornificius22vain 3 years ago
just love this stuff
mlindgreen 4 years ago
The tuning is a bit weird in parts of this (I think its the recording) but the playing is phenomenal.
keyboardmum 4 years ago