Oscar peterson biography book

"A Jazz Odyssey' is far from artful (though never less than readable), but I can think of no other jazz autobiography that has made the mysteries of music-making so readily accessible to the lay reader.

Even those who dislike Oscar Peterson's playing will find his book informative - surely a near-unprecedented achievement. The result is a memorable contribution to the literature of jazz, and one can only hope that other musicians interested in telling their stories, whether on paper or into a tape recorder, will take it as a model." 

- Terry Teachout for Commentary

'I can't truthfully recall my first meeting with the piano,' begins Oscar Peterson's 'Jazz Odyssey', his long-awaited autobiography, which tells the full story of the world's most famous jazz pianist.

 

Edited by Richard Palmer, it covers Peterson's childhood in Montreal, his meetings with giants such as Art Tat