by Victoria Ahearn, The Canadian Press
Posted Mar 3, 2021 10:59 am EDT
Last Updated Mar 3, 2021 at 11:14 am EDT
TORONTO Canadian filmmaker Barry Avrich has started production on a feature documentary on the late Montreal-raised jazz legend Oscar Peterson.
A news release from Avrich’s Melbar Entertainment Group says Kelly Peterson, the widow of the virtuoso pianist, will act as consulting producer on “Oscar Peterson: Black and White.”
The film is billed as a “docu-concert” and will include archival concert footage as well as interviews with family members and musicians who played with the Grammy winner, who died in 2007 at the age of 82 in Mississauga, Ont.
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