The Duane Peters Gunfight | ms

Born in East Orange New Jersey and later moved out west to Oakland, California, Duane has been working hard towards his dream to get into the music industry and to be recognized as a talented singer and songwriter. Duane is definitely on his way and doing big things to get discovered. Whether if its hooking up with Versatyle, Jebeatz, Coop and other hot producers to drop hot tracks or just laying some vocals and songwriting for other artists, Duane is slowly but surely crafting his style and vocal ability by staying in the studio, writing, and taking advantage of any...

Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Born in Montreal, Canada, Peterson began learning trumpet and piano from his father at the age of five, but by the age of seven, after a bout of tuberculosis, he concentrated on the piano. Some of the artists who influenced Peterson during the early years were Teddy Wilson, Nat "King" Cole, James P. Johnson, and the legendary Art Tatum, to whom many have tried to compare Peterson in later years. In fact, one of his first exposures to the musical talents of Art Tatum came early in his teen years...

An exciting, serpentine solo maker in the mold of Don Cherry -- Peterson has chops but leaves precision to the wind in favor of spontaneous eruptions of melody. Peterson has a more well-rounded technique than Cherry, however, and plays with greater force. Unlike many contemporary free jazz players, Peterson is adept at older styles; he's played under such adventurous yet tradition-bound bandleaders as Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Gil Evans, and Elvin Jones, and with such dyed-in-the-wool avant-gardists as Roswell Rudd, Ken McIntyre, and Deidre Murray. As a youth, Peterson learned drums and cornet. He attended North Texas State University from 1967-1969...