Black jazz musicians 'coloured south of Montreal as Black as they could' — but it wasn't easy. | CBCArts
Oscar Peterson and his sister Daisy Peterson Sweeney, who taught him how to play the piano.
While accepting an award on behalf of her late father, Céline Peterson shared a telling quote from her father: "I've always wanted to feel wanted at home; I've always wanted to be respected at home; I've always wanted to be honoured at home." "Rockhead's Paradise was the club to go to. It was the best Black nightclub in Canada," Jones reminisces with me on the phone. "For a long time, it was the only Black club in Canada."place for Black artists. It was one of the few spaces that would accept them.
Oliver Jones lived only 13 doors down from the Peterson family. It didn't take him long, he tells me, to realize Daisy's hand in mentoring and training the musicians of the area — especially a young Oscar. As a kid, Jones spent as much time as he could on the front steps of the Peterson family home, waiting to hear Oscar or Daisy play: "It was an awful lot of music coming from the Peterson household, but somehow, I knew automatically who was playing.
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