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A Living, Swinging Legend: Oscar Peterson

Nicholas Jennings, Maclean's, 13 September 1999

OSCAR PETERSON peers up through the glass ceiling of his sunroom and apologizes for the faint noise coming from a distant jet passing overhead. "We're right in their flight path," explains Peterson, whose split-level house in Mississauga, Ont., sits due west of Toronto's Pearson International Airport.

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