Oscar Peterson Centenary Tribute: Triology Plays Peterson at Viff Centre

VIFF celebrates Oscar Peterson’s centenary with an evening of Canadian jazz and Canadian film. Triology — featuring Jodi Proznick (bass), Bill Coon (guitar) and Miles Black (piano) — pays tribute to the legendary Oscar Peterson with a swinging, heartfelt celebration of his music and legacy. Experience the joy, virtuosity, and spirit of one of Canada’s greatest jazz icons, reimagined by three of the country’s top jazz artists. Triology’s performance will be followed by a screening of Begone Dull Care, Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart’s ecstatic, excitable and effervescent 1949 drawn-direct-on-film animated short bounces along to twenty-four-year-old Oscar Peterson’s trio playing his original composition...

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VIFF celebrates Oscar Peterson’s centenary with an evening of Canadian jazz and Canadian film. Triology — featuring Jodi Proznick (bass), Bill Coon (guitar) and Miles Black (piano) — pays tribute to the legendary Oscar Peterson with a swinging, heartfelt celebration of his music and legacy. Experience the joy, virtuosity, and spirit of one of Canada’s greatest jazz icons, reimagined by three of the country’s top jazz artists. Triology’s performance will be followed by a screening of Begone Dull Care, Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart’s ecstatic, excitable and effervescent 1949 drawn-direct-on-film animated short bounces along to twenty-four-year-old Oscar Peterson’s trio playing his original composition. The program concludes with a screening of the director Daryl Duke’s 1978 Canadian thriller The Silent Partner starring Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, and Susannah York and featuring Peterson leading a septet performing his original soundtrack.

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