Oscar Pettiford

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Stardust 00:00 Tools
Bohemia After Dark 00:00 Tools
Blues in the Closet 00:00 Tools
Another One 00:00 Tools
Rhumblues 00:00 Tools
All the Things You Are 00:00 Tools
Minor Seventh Heaven 00:00 Tools
Oscalypso 00:00 Tools
There Will Never Be Another You 00:00 Tools
Titoro 00:00 Tools
Scorpio 00:00 Tools
Cohn's Limit 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep for Me 00:00 Tools
Kamman's A' Comin' 00:00 Tools
Don't Squawk 00:00 Tools
The Gentle Art of Love 00:00 Tools
Montmartre Blues 00:00 Tools
Tamalpais 00:00 Tools
Blue Brothers 03:58 Tools
Marcel the Furrier 00:00 Tools
Low and Behold 00:00 Tools
Stockholm Sweetnin' 00:00 Tools
Tamalpais Love Song 00:00 Tools
I Remember Clifford 00:00 Tools
Stalag 414 00:00 Tools
My Little Cello 00:00 Tools
The Pendulum At Falcon's Lair 00:00 Tools
Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home 00:00 Tools
Ondine 00:00 Tools
Perdido 00:00 Tools
Burt's Pad 00:00 Tools
Now See How You Are 00:00 Tools
Smoke Signal 00:00 Tools
Not So Sleepy 00:00 Tools
Jack the Fieldstalker 00:00 Tools
Little Niles 00:00 Tools
Nica's Tempo 00:00 Tools
Jack the Bear 00:00 Tools
Pendulum At Falcon's Lair 00:00 Tools
In a Cello Mood 00:00 Tools
Back in Paradise 00:00 Tools
Vienna Blues 00:00 Tools
Deep Passion 00:00 Tools
Two French Fries 00:00 Tools
Tricotism 00:00 Tools
Speculation 00:00 Tools
Laura 00:00 Tools
Somewhere 00:00 Tools
Sextette 00:00 Tools
E-Lag 00:00 Tools
I'm Beginning to See the Light 00:00 Tools
Laverne Walk 00:00 Tools
Kamman's A-Comin' 00:00 Tools
Time On My Hands 00:00 Tools
Sunrise-Sunset 00:00 Tools
Yardbird Suite 00:00 Tools
Straight Ahead 00:00 Tools
Cable Car 00:00 Tools
Mood Indigo 00:00 Tools
Aw! Come On 00:00 Tools
Sonny Boy 00:00 Tools
Sophisticated Lady 00:00 Tools
A Smooth One 00:00 Tools
I Succumb to Temptation 00:00 Tools
Cello Again 00:00 Tools
Too Marvelous For Words 00:00 Tools
Montmarte Blues 00:00 Tools
Chuckles 00:00 Tools
Poor Butterfly 00:00 Tools
But Not For Me 00:00 Tools
Seabreeze 00:00 Tools
Two Little Pearls 00:00 Tools
Blues In The Closet (06-?-53) 00:00 Tools
Fru Bruel 00:00 Tools
Bop Scotch 00:00 Tools
Oscar's Blues 00:00 Tools
Summertime 00:00 Tools
Edge of Love 00:00 Tools
The Most 00:00 Tools
Chickasaw 00:00 Tools
Stuffy 00:00 Tools
Cello for Cello Twins 00:00 Tools
Minor 7th Heaven 00:00 Tools
Rides Again 00:00 Tools
Monti Cello 00:00 Tools
Chasin' The Bass 00:00 Tools
The Laverne Walk 00:00 Tools
Rapid Transit 00:00 Tools
The Golden Touch 00:00 Tools
Bei mir bist du schoen 00:00 Tools
Swingin' Til The Girls Come Home 00:00 Tools
Lullaby of Birdland (February 7, 1953) 00:00 Tools
Low Idea 00:00 Tools
Oscar Rides Again 00:00 Tools
Monticello 00:00 Tools
Why Not? That's What! 00:00 Tools
Something For You 00:00 Tools
Over The Rainbow 00:00 Tools
Brilliant Corners 00:00 Tools
Ah-Dee-Dong Blues 00:00 Tools
O.P. 00:00 Tools
OP 00:00 Tools
Tricrotism 00:00 Tools
Bo-Bi My Boy 00:00 Tools
Trictatism 00:00 Tools
East Lag 00:00 Tools
Thanks for the Memory 00:00 Tools
Lullaby of Birdland (February 14, 1953) 00:00 Tools
Flute Cocktail 00:00 Tools
Montmatre Blues 00:00 Tools
Tea for Two: No, No, Nanette: Tea for Two 00:00 Tools
King Porter Stomp 00:00 Tools
My Shining Hour 00:00 Tools
Esquire Jump 00:00 Tools
Too Marvellous for Words 00:00 Tools
Why Not? That's What 00:00 Tools
And the Angels Sing: It Could Happen to You 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love 00:00 Tools
Never Never Land 00:00 Tools
Cello Again - Recorded New York - October 16, 1952 00:00 Tools
Tea for Two: No, No, Nanette: I want to be happy 00:00 Tools
Empty Bed Blues 00:00 Tools
Ah-Dee-Dong Blues (Oriental Cello Blues) 00:00 Tools
Like Listen 00:00 Tools
Girl Crazy, Act I: Embraceable You 00:00 Tools
The Nearness Of You 00:00 Tools
Low & Behold 00:00 Tools
Since When 00:00 Tools
Treffpunkt Blues 00:00 Tools
Nica's Dream 00:00 Tools
Why Not ? That's What ! 00:00 Tools
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? 00:00 Tools
Thou Svelt 00:00 Tools
Born to Dance: I've Got You Under My Skin 00:00 Tools
Swingin' Till The Girls Come 00:00 Tools
There'll Never Be Another You 00:00 Tools
Blues It 00:00 Tools
Love Of My Live 00:00 Tools
The Pendulum St Falcon's Lair 00:00 Tools
Tricrotism (1956) 00:00 Tools
At Bat For K.C 00:00 Tools
Blues in the Closet - Recorded in Hollywood May 14, 1953 00:00 Tools
A Lady's Vanity 00:00 Tools
Ornithology 00:00 Tools
Fru Brüel 00:00 Tools
Minor plus A Major 00:00 Tools
Ah-Dee-Dong Blues - Recorded New York - October 16, 1952 00:00 Tools
I'm Beginning to See the Light - Recorded New York - October 16, 1952 00:00 Tools
Old Reliable 00:00 Tools
Sonny Boy - Recorded New York - October 16, 1952 00:00 Tools
My Litlle Cello 00:00 Tools
Pannonica 00:00 Tools
The Pendulum at Falcon's Lair (1953) 00:00 Tools
Indiana 00:00 Tools
Tamalpais - Recorded in New York - December 29, 1953 00:00 Tools
Bohemia After Dark (08-12-55) 00:00 Tools
E-Lag - Alternate take previously unissued 00:00 Tools
Burt's Pad - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Keepin' out of Mischief Now 00:00 Tools
In a Cello Mood - Recorded in Hollywood May 14, 1953 00:00 Tools
Monti Celli - Recorded in Hollywood May 14, 1953 00:00 Tools
The Pendulum at Falcon's Lair - Recorded in New York - December 29, 1953 00:00 Tools
Seventh Heaven 00:00 Tools
Kamman's A-Coming (08-12-55) 00:00 Tools
Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are 00:00 Tools
Kamman's A'Comin' 00:00 Tools
Love Of My Life 00:00 Tools
Blue Brother 00:00 Tools
Swingin' 'Til The Girls Come Home 00:00 Tools
The Gentle Art of Love (1956) 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul 00:00 Tools
Two Litlle Pearls 00:00 Tools
The Edge Of Love 00:00 Tools
Too Marvelous for Words - Recorded in Hollywood May 14, 1953 00:00 Tools
Esquire Bounce 00:00 Tools
Jack the Fieldstalker - Recorded in New York - December 29, 1953 00:00 Tools
Atlantic 00:00 Tools
Rides Again - Recorded in New York September, 1954 00:00 Tools
Sermonette 00:00 Tools
The Spirit Feel 00:00 Tools
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (04-28-51) 00:00 Tools
Swingin' Till The Girls Come Home (04-28-51) 00:00 Tools
Translation 00:00 Tools
Jackthe Fieldstalker 00:00 Tools
Tricrotism - Recorded in New York September, 1954 00:00 Tools
Blues For Blanton 00:00 Tools
Cello Again (10-16-52) 00:00 Tools
Oscar Blues 00:00 Tools
Stockholm Sweetnin' - Recorded in New York - December 29, 1953 00:00 Tools
E Lag 00:00 Tools
Take The "A" Train 00:00 Tools
Big Hassle 00:00 Tools
Swamp Fire 00:00 Tools
Sextette - Recorded in New York September, 1954 00:00 Tools
Low and Behold - Recorded in New York - December 29, 1953 00:00 Tools
Lavernce Walk 00:00 Tools
Trictotism (1954) 00:00 Tools
Awl Come On 00:00 Tools
The Edge of Love - Recorded in New York September, 1954 00:00 Tools
Golden Touch - Recorded in New York September, 1954 00:00 Tools
Not Really The Blues 00:00 Tools
Stardust (08-12-55) 00:00 Tools
Ignunt Oil 00:00 Tools
I'm Beginning To See The Light (10-16-52) 00:00 Tools
All Things You Are - 1959 00:00 Tools
Sonny Boy (10-16-52) 00:00 Tools
Sea breeze 00:00 Tools
O. P. 00:00 Tools
Cable Car - Recorded in New York September, 1954 00:00 Tools
Blues in the Closet - 1959 00:00 Tools
Bull Market (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
The Plain but the Simple Truth 00:00 Tools
COHN`S LIMIT 00:00 Tools
Why Not, That's What 00:00 Tools
Good Bait 00:00 Tools
At Home With The Blues 00:00 Tools
He's My Guy 00:00 Tools
My Ideal 00:00 Tools
Edge Of Love (c. 09-54) 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Jennie (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Blues at Twilight 00:00 Tools
O.P. Mets L.T. 00:00 Tools
Lazy Afternoon 00:00 Tools
Stardust (1956) 00:00 Tools
Anusia 00:00 Tools
Monti Cello (06-?-53) 00:00 Tools
Girl Crazy: But Not for Me 00:00 Tools
In A Cello Mood (06-?-53) 00:00 Tools
OP Meets LT 00:00 Tools
Stockholm Sweetnin' (12-29-53) 00:00 Tools
Sextet 00:00 Tools
Nina Never Knew (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Not Sleepy 00:00 Tools
I Like To Recognize The Tune (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Holiday (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Kamman's A-Comin 00:00 Tools
Love and the Weather 00:00 Tools
Little Tenderfoot 00:00 Tools
Tamalpais (12-29-53) 00:00 Tools
Too Marvelous For Words (06-?-53) 00:00 Tools
She Didn't Say Yes 00:00 Tools
Night In Tunisia 00:00 Tools
Roberta: Yesterdays 00:00 Tools
Little Niles [Cover] 00:00 Tools
E Lag (03-21-54) 00:00 Tools
Tamalpais (12-17-54) 00:00 Tools
Love Is For The Very Young (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
There Will Never Be Another You - 1959 00:00 Tools
Dancing Sunbeam 00:00 Tools
Why Not That's What! 00:00 Tools
Suddenly It Jumped 00:00 Tools
Tamalais 00:00 Tools
Blues in the Closet (M) 00:00 Tools
Cable Car (c. 09-54) 00:00 Tools
Mood Indigo (12-17-54) 00:00 Tools
There?Ll Never Be Another You 00:00 Tools
The Nearness Of You/Interview 00:00 Tools
Any Place I Hang My Hat (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Green Night & Orange Bright 00:00 Tools
Pluckin' That Thing 00:00 Tools
Black and Blue 00:00 Tools
Burt's Pad (03-21-54) 00:00 Tools
'Woody'n' You' 00:00 Tools
Mister Man 00:00 Tools
Ah-Dee-Doing Blues (10-16-52) 00:00 Tools
Montmartre Blues Out 00:00 Tools
The Pendulum At Falcon's Lair (12-29-53) 00:00 Tools
Turtle Walk 00:00 Tools
More Moon 00:00 Tools
Honeysuckle Rose 00:00 Tools
Sextette (c. 09-54) 00:00 Tools
What Am I Here For? (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Oscalypso (08-12-55) 00:00 Tools
Gal In Calico (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
The Pendulum at Falcon's Lair (1956) 00:00 Tools
Esquire Blues 00:00 Tools
Blues for Blanton - 1950 00:00 Tools
Amusia 00:00 Tools
Low And Behold (12-29-53) 00:00 Tools
Aw Come On 00:00 Tools
Rhumblues (03-21-54) 00:00 Tools
Trictatism (c. 09-54) 00:00 Tools
The Golden Touch (c. 09-54) 00:00 Tools
In A Mist 00:00 Tools
Judy?S Jaunt (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Tom-Kattin 00:00 Tools
Kat's Fur 00:00 Tools
OSCAR`S BLUES 00:00 Tools
Stardust - 1959 00:00 Tools
Stockholm Sweetenin' 00:00 Tools
Blue Skies 00:00 Tools
Oscar Blues - 1959 00:00 Tools
There will never be another yo 00:00 Tools
Once There Was 00:00 Tools
Cohn's Limit - 1959 00:00 Tools
At Bat For K.C. 00:00 Tools
Kamman's A-Coming 00:00 Tools
Time On My Hands (12-17-54) 00:00 Tools
Titoro (08-12-55) 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep For Me-OSCAR PETTIFORD 00:00 Tools
Another One (08-12-55) 00:00 Tools
Don't Squawk (08-12-55) 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays 00:00 Tools
Jumpin' With Judy 00:00 Tools
Ya? Gotta Have Rhythm (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Deep Passion (Feb 1956) 00:00 Tools
This Side Up 00:00 Tools
If I'm Lucky 00:00 Tools
Words 00:00 Tools
But Not for Me: Girl Crazy, Act II: But Not for Me 00:00 Tools
Stardust (03-21-54) 00:00 Tools
Announcer: Leonard Feather 00:00 Tools
The Gentle Art of Love - Version 3 00:00 Tools
Jack The Fieldstalker (12-29-53) 00:00 Tools
The Switch 00:00 Tools
Vienna Blues - 1959 00:00 Tools
3. ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE 00:00 Tools
Sunrise - Sunset 00:00 Tools
Nina Never Knew 00:00 Tools
7. STARDUST 00:00 Tools
Swing Until The Girls Come Home (12-17-54) 00:00 Tools
Chuckles (12-17-54) 00:00 Tools
Monti celli 00:00 Tools
You'd Be so Nice to Come Home To 00:00 Tools
Deep Passion (August 1956) 00:00 Tools
Bohemia After Dark - Version 1 00:00 Tools
Crazy Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Swing Until The Girls Come Home 00:00 Tools
Marcel The Furrier (03-21-54) 00:00 Tools
Very Warm of May: All the Things You Are 00:00 Tools
Low and Behold - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Bull Market 00:00 Tools
Hit That Jive 00:00 Tools
The Gentle Art of Love - 1959 00:00 Tools
4. STALAG 414 00:00 Tools
A Gal In Calico 00:00 Tools
9. BLUES IN THE CLOSET 00:00 Tools
Ondine (03-21-54) 00:00 Tools
Ubas 00:00 Tools
Jack The Bear (12-17-54) 00:00 Tools
Disorder At The Border 00:00 Tools
JAZZRADIO.com TSTAG_60 ADWTAG 00:00 Tools
O.P Meets L.T 00:00 Tools
He's My Guy - Version 1 00:00 Tools
Mop Mop 00:00 Tools
Dee Dee's Dance 00:00 Tools
The Gentle Art of Love - Version 2 00:00 Tools
JazzRadio.com 00:00 Tools
Burt's Pad [Alt. Take] 00:00 Tools
The Things We Did Last Summer 00:00 Tools
You're covered 00:00 Tools
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams 00:00 Tools
The Gentle Art of Love - Version 1 00:00 Tools
Seventh Heaven - Version 1 00:00 Tools
The Big Show: Poor Butterfly 00:00 Tools
Very Warm for May: All the Things You Are: All the Things You Are 00:00 Tools
Portrait Of Jennie 00:00 Tools
2. THE GENTLE ART OF LOVE 00:00 Tools
6. OSCAR`S BLUES 00:00 Tools
Rides Again (c. 09-54) 00:00 Tools
My Little Chello 00:00 Tools
La Verne Walk 00:00 Tools
The Gentle Art of Love (1958) 00:00 Tools
I Got A Date With Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Gentle Art of Love 00:00 Tools
Aw C'mon 00:00 Tools
E-Lag [Alt. Take] 00:00 Tools
Holiday 00:00 Tools
Trictrotism 00:00 Tools
Kamman’s A’ Comin’ 00:00 Tools
No Knox Blues 00:00 Tools
Salt Peanuts 00:00 Tools
Nica's Tempo - Version 1 00:00 Tools
Smoke Signal - Version 1 00:00 Tools
Bohemia After Dark - Version 2 00:00 Tools
SKY.FM Radio TSTAG_60 ADWTAG 00:00 Tools
1. COHN`S LIMIT 00:00 Tools
Out Is In 00:00 Tools
Stockholm Sweetnin 00:00 Tools
Tom-Kattin' 00:00 Tools
Moanin' 00:00 Tools
Now See How You Are* 00:00 Tools
Minor Seventh Heaven (08-12-55) 00:00 Tools
NICA S TEMPO 00:00 Tools
Good Luck 00:00 Tools
Be Bop 00:00 Tools
Smoke Signal - Version 2 00:00 Tools
Harp Capers 00:00 Tools
Burt's Pad (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Walking (Down) 00:00 Tools
Chukles 00:00 Tools
Taking A Chance On Love 00:00 Tools
I Like To Recognize The Tune 00:00 Tools
Gal In Calico 00:00 Tools
Burt's Pad [alternate take] 00:00 Tools
Blues in the Closet (live) 00:00 Tools
02 - Minor Seventh Heaven 00:00 Tools
Very Warm for May: All the Things You Are (live) 00:00 Tools
Judy's Jaunt 00:00 Tools
E-Lag [alternate take] 00:00 Tools
Blues in the Closet (Recorded in Hollywood May 14, 1953) 00:00 Tools
Chasin the Bass 00:00 Tools
8. THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU 00:00 Tools
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Oscar Pettiford (b. Okmulgee, Oklahoma, September 30, 1922; d. Copenhagen, Denmark, September 8, 1960) was an American jazz bassist, cellist and composer known particularly for his pioneering work in bebop. In 1942 he joined the Charlie Barnet band and in 1943 gained wider public attention after recording with Coleman Hawkins on his "The Man I Love." He also recorded with Earl Hines and Ben Webster around this time. He and Dizzy Gillespie led a bop group in 1944. in 1945 Pettiford went with Hawkins to California, where he appeared in The Crimson Canary, a mystery movie known for its jazz soundtrack. He then worked with Duke Ellington from 1945 to 1948 and for Woody Herman in 1949 before working mainly as a leader in the 1950s. As a leader he inadvertently discovered Cannonball Adderley . After one of his musicians had tricked him into letting Adderley, an unknown music teacher, onto the stand, he had Adderley solo on a demanding piece, on which Adderley performed impressively. Pettiford is considered the pioneer of the cello as a solo instrument in jazz music. In 1949, after suffering a broken arm, Pettiford found it impossible to play his bass, so he experimented with a cello a friend had lent him. Tuning it in fourths, like a double bass, but one octave higher, Pettiford found it possible to perform during his rehabilitation (during which time his arm was in a sling) and made his first recordings with the instrument in 1950. The cello thus became his secondary instrument, and he continued to perform and record with it throughout his career. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Pettiford Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.