Jazz Articles about Scott Routenberg

Scott Routenberg Trio: Live at Merrimans' Playhouse: Oscar Peterson Tribute

by Jack Bowers
May 12, 2026

The indomitable spirit of Canada's gift to pianistic supremacy is ever-present on the Scott Routenberg Trio's radiant and swinging centennial Oscar Peterson Tribute, recorded in concert at Merryman's Playhouse Jazz in South Bend, Indiana, on October 11, 2025. Routenberg, an award-winning pianist, composer, arranger and educator, knows as well as anyone that there has been and likely will always be only one Oscar Peterson, a giant of jazz piano whose peerless ingenuity and mind-numbing technique were (and remain) ...