Cake Walk

Cake Walk - Oscar Peterson 1988 Canadian pianist performs at the closing gala night at the 1988 Bern Jazz Festival. He plays Cake Walk, one of his own compositions. He is accompanied by one of Canada’s finest bass players, Dave Young from Toronto. On drums is Marin Drew, originally from Great Britain who earned his fame in London with Tony Scott, a very renowned bebop clarinetist. I always find one of the most exciting parts in many of Oscar’s compositions how he would start his solo all on his own and then after some fairly modernistic improvisations fall into the classic stride format, this in honour of Fats Waller and James P. Johnson. The world will miss the great Oscar!