Anyone watching in 2026?

I find it interesting how masters of jazz so often have such a soft quality to their voice as they speak. There is a certain zen-like quality to their persons which always makes me smile.

An era when hard earned musicianship was appreciated, respected and documented on BBC. Peterson, Pass, Basie, you will not pass this way again.

I, for one, am incredibly grateful that these incomparable recordings and interviews still exist and are available on YouTube for everyone to enjoy.  Thanks for posting.

Imagine that for decades, before the creation of youtube, this footage was "lost", and was only in the memory of the people who watched it live that day in 1980. Our generation take youtube for granted sometimes. This plataform is one of the most important creation in human history.

I tuned the pianos for these artists close to 45 years ago. The only addition was Ella Fitzgerald. A whole week of these wonderful artists.

As far as I'm concerned, Oscar Peterson was the greatest jazz Pianist ever.

New Years Eve 2023. I just smiled my way through this whole concert from 43 years ago. Brilliant!

I can’t stop smiling. This is gold. An affirmation of life itself. High art.

To the beautiful soul reading this — may your days be filled with light ☀, love 💖, and laughter 😂. Stay blessed 🙏.

Thank god for youtube....this would be forever lost if we didn't have this medium

This is the drug for jazz lovers

The quality for 1980 is way better than I thought it was

Listening to Joe Pass, he is so smooth, my toast just buttered itself

This is absolutely priceless.  The conversation between Oscar and the normally reticent Count Basie alone is a major document in the history of American music--unappreciated by those who don't know jazz history and its true masters.  Note how Oscar, the major prankster and intimidator (he loved to tell how he got the better of other pianists, from Shearing to Brubeck) admits that he learned about intimidation by the gold standard of jazz piano, Art Tatum--the ultimate "musician's musician," the challenge that any true musician must work to understand.  When Miles asked Hank Mobley to replace the departing Coltrane, Hank responded: 'Miles, Trane was the Art Tatum of the tenor saxophone. I can't follow that!" When a Down Beat critic asked Sonny Stitt why he copied Bird instead of creating a new musical direction, Sonny exploded: "You don't know sh..t, man! Look at Art Tatum. You can't play no better than that!"

The public understands Oscar's music much more than Art's.  And the same goes for Basie vs. the frequently challenging, sophisticated and subtle Ellington.  But when asked, the Count and Joe Williams would speak of Duke as the quintessential American musician, a figure best approached in theological terms.  There are so few jazz programs left, and most ignore the incomparable Duke Ellington band--settling instead on playing the pop standards he wrote to support his band.  (Please. No more Satin Doll's and Don't Round Much Anymore.  Give us the Ellington sax section, rich colors and ironic humor.)

I can't believe I can listen to this for free!
2 of the best Pianist together...
Words can't describe how happy I am to have come across this masterpiece.
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I just read up on the history of the first tune, "Charlie." Oscar's first wife was Charlotte Huber, with whom he had one son, named Joel, and the song is dedicated to her. In the book "Oscar Peterson: The Man and His Jazz," it says that he composed a few tunes to sum up his relationship with Charlie and his son Joel, beginning with this one, which captures the beauty of his former love, then "Night Child," which is dedicated to Joel, and then "He Has Gone," which encapsulates his emotions surrounding his divorce and separation from his son.

My god. Everything being done here is being done at such a high level, and it’s absolutely amazing. What a great collection of music legends.

joe pass - no Words for him - he is (was) out of this World and he sadly is

Peterson and Basie, it doesn't get better than this. Both gone but not forgotten.