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Oscar Peterson, an Uncommon card
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 200,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- As a virtuoso who is considered to be one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, Peterson released more than 200 recordings, won eight Grammy Awards, as well as a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy, and received numerous other awards and honours.
- He played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years.
- He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, simply "O.P." by his friends, and was informally known in the jazz community as "the King of inside swing".
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Oscar Peterson article was read about 200,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Oscar Peterson
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Oscar Peterson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Tom Marcello Webster, New York, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.


