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Piano Starts Here
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by Art Tatum
Sales Rank: 70892
Price:$6.99
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Album Details
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1. Tea for Two - Art Tatum, Caesar, Irving
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2. St. Louis Blues - Art Tatum, Handy, W.C.
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3. Tiger Rag - Art Tatum, DaCosta, Harry
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4. Sophisticated Lady - Art Tatum, Ellington, Duke
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5. How High the Moon - Art Tatum, Hamilton, Nancy
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6. Humoresque - Art Tatum, Dvorak, Antonin
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7. Someone to Watch Over Me - Art Tatum, Gershwin, George
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8. Yesterdays - Art Tatum, Kern, Jerome
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9. I Know That You Know - Art Tatum, Caldwell, Anne
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10. Willow Weep for Me - Art Tatum, Ronell, Ann
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11. Tatum Pole Boogie - Art Tatum, Tatum, Art
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12. The Kerry Dance - Art Tatum, Molloy, James Lyman
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13. The Man I Love - Art Tatum, Gershwin, George
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Listener Reviews & Comments
Toledo,Ohio,October 13,1910: the nightmare of all piano players,I mean classical or jazz piano players,is born.Art Tatum,the most talentuous pianist of all times,was born and after he became blind,started to learn piano.Adelaide Hall,Duke Ellington's singer in the late twenties,found him during a tour and brought him in NYC.And the nightmare started.Year 1933.Art was in the Big Apple,and intended to eat it completely.And he did.Horowitz,Rubinstein,Toscanini came to some obscure Harlem's clubs to listen to him.If he had the possibility to record some tunes of Bach or Chopin,he would have killed everybody.There are two quotes that are very interesting: the immense Thomas "Fats" Waller,playing one night in a club,said something like "I'm here playing tonight,but God's in the house" as Tatum was sitting before the stage;and Tatum saying,sorry I don't have the original words,that he'd like to play like Teddy Wilson;maybe the greatest tribute for one of the most discreet musicians. This too short CD proposes four tracks (1-4) recorded in NYC,1933,when Adelaide Hall brought him;among them,"Tiger rag",maybe the most terrific thing I ever heard.Tatum plays the tune at a terrifying speed,and offers us some of the most incredible stride piano playing.The Nightmare begins to eat the Big Apple,and nothing will stop him. Tracks 5-13 were recorded in 1949,At the Shrine Auditorium,Los Angeles;every interpretation is superlative.Anton Dvorak's "Humoresque" can let you think how great Tatum could have been if he had the opportunity of playing classical music."Tatum pole boogie" is the most horrific way to play a boogie.Or the best way to decide you to cut your fingers."the kerry dancers",who was also played by Johnny Griffin,shows Tatum playing a weel known irish ballad.This is the shortest track of this cd,but not the last one."the man I love" is a lesson of swing and the mark of the greatest piano player. Art Tatum sadly died November 5,1956,aged 46.All of his records are essential,but this one is the only one in which you can hear Tatum playing live in a big hall.Really,a must to have. c
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Piano Starts Here
by Art Tatum
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