When someone is called "Maharajah of the Keys", that's basically something. But if he is called so by Duke Ellington (or you have read the headline), you know: We are talking about no less than Oscar Peterson. So that Canadian pianist and composer, who from the mid-50s played with the very, very greats (including Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Quincy Jones, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, but let's not go there, the list goes on and on). In the 60s and 70s he recorded legendary albums like "Night Train" with his trio. Peterson won seven Grammys in total.
During the time he was playing sessions with well-known jazz musicians on his own television show, Peterson wrote a setting of the Passion of Jesus in nine movements for the BBC, the "Easter Suite" . It is considered his little-known masterpiece, as it was performed only once for a long time. Young Leipzig pianist Olga Reznichenko will do just that, on Maundy Thursday with Carl Wittig (double bass) and Jan Roth (percussion). Vibraphonist Volker Heuken will join the trio in other pieces.

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