Oscar Peterson
Day 42
#63 – Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (b.1925). Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Called ‘O.P.’ by his friends. Albums include: The Oscar Peterson Trio at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival (1956), Night Train (1962) and The Trio (1973).
I decided to try and work with Peterson’s nickname, ‘OP’, as that was distinctive. After sketching I realised the ‘P’ could look like the top of a grand piano. Keeping the ‘O’ as well, it looked like an abstract form of ‘OP’. Red and white were chosen to reflect his nationality. I experimented with putting notes behind on the red background to express the speed of his playing.
2 hours
Early layout idea looking at ‘op’
Listen...
to excerpts from the album ‘Night Train’