Oscar Pettiford - Jazz 88 Artist of the Week for September 29 2014

Oscar Pettiford - Jazz 88 Artist of the Week for September 29 2014

Blog Name:Jazz 88.3 Blog

Blog Author:Vince Outlaw

Posted on:September 29, 2014

One of the first innovators on the bass during the be-bop era, Oscar Pettiford is San Diego's Jazz 88.3 Artist of the Week for the week of September 29, 2014. You'll be hearing his music all week at Jazz 88.3 and he will be the feature during the Noon PT Portrait in Jazz feature on the 92nd Anniversary of his birth in Okmulgee, OK, September 30, 1922. He passed away at the age of 37 in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 8, 1960. 


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