PETERSON, OSCAR EMMANUEL. Jazz pianist ( in Montreal, Quebec, Canada). He came from a musical family; the five children formed a family orchestra. He began study of the trumpet at the age of five but had to give it up after contracting tuberculosis; thereafter he studied piano. At fourteen he won first prize in a Montreal radio-show competition and began playing professionally on a weekly radio show, station CKAC. He also began study of jazz piano with Paul...