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Art Tatum: Blue Skies (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 04, 09Art Tatum’s solo sides for Capitol were recorded on three dates in July-September 1949. Except for a few old favorite...
Art Tatum: I Cover the Waterfront (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music May 10, 08Art Tatum covers the whole keyboard, as well as the waterfront, on this bravura ballad. The late 1940s were a fertil...
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Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...
Art Tatum: Élégie (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 10, 09This was the side of Tatum that drove his critics mad. Instead of trying to raise jazz composition to the next level...
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Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...
Art Tatum: Willow Weep for Me (studio 1949) (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music February 04, 08Art Tatum's rendering of this tune is unlike his best-known manner. He displays few flurries of high-speed notes, opt...
Art Tatum: I Got Rhythm (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music February 10, 08Jazzmen have recorded "I Got Rhythm" >600 times, and based so many of their own tunes on its chord progressions that ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRACKS BY PIANO TRIOS WITH GUITAR AND BASS
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Art Tatum: Someone to Watch Over Me (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music May 09, 08It's hard for me to pick between this studio version of the Gershwin standard and the live recording Tatum made of th...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ART TATUM AT 100
Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...
Art Tatum: Tea for Two (1952) (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music February 04, 08Tatum recorded this tune several times, often as a solo performance. With his trio, he arranges the original melody b...
Art Tatum & Ben Webster: My Ideal (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 07, 09Ben Webster, who idolized Art Tatum, thought that the album he made with the virtuoso pianist in 1956 was his best ev...
Art Tatum & Roy Eldridge: Night and Day (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music October 10, 09Art Tatum had performed with Roy Eldridge back in 1944 at a famous concert by the Esquire All-Stars, but their paths ...
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Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...
Art Tatum & Ben Webster: My Ideal (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 10, 09Many superlatives have been lavished on the so-called "Tatum Group Masterpieces"—Norman Granz's mid-1950s recordings ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ART TATUM AT 100
Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...
Art Tatum: Idaho (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 19, 07When Lester Young, Nat King Cole and Buddy Rich recorded a similar ad hoc session in 1946, it jelled. Already a sta...
Art Tatum: Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rating: 80/100) posted in Music May 17, 09“Come Rain Or Come Shine” was not a regular part of Art Tatum’s considerable repertoire. There were only 3 private re...
Art Tatum: Deep Night (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music May 03, 09The final two Tatum Group Masterpieces sessions occurred in 1956, the year of Tatum's death, and were polar opposites...
Art Tatum: Sweet Georgia Brown (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 10, 09Jerry Newman was a student at Columbia University with a passion for jazz and—even more important!—a portable disk-cu...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ART TATUM AT 100
Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...
Art Tatum: Sophisticated Lady (1933) (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 03, 07Only five weeks after Duke Ellington recorded his version of this now popular standard, Art Tatum features it at the ...
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Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...
Art Tatum (performance recreated by Zenph Studios): I Know That You Know (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 10, 09Fats Waller once famously introduced Art Tatum with these oft-quoted words: "I just play the piano, but God is in th...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ART TATUM AT 100
Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...
Art Tatum: Willow Weep for Me (live 1949) (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 02, 08Erroll Garner and Art Tatum at Birdland, 1952 ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ART TATUM AT 100
Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...
Art Tatum: Have You Met Miss Jones? (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 23, 07Has Art Tatum met Miss Jones? By the end of this five-minute track, Art has taken her uptown, downtown, out back, an...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ART TATUM AT 100
Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...
Art Tatum: Sophisticated Lady (Solo Masterpieces version) (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music December 03, 07Art Tatum recorded this same piece at his first commercial session back in 1933, but this updated performance shows h...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ART TATUM AT 100
Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...
Art Tatum: Humoresque (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 06, 07Classical recitalists consider Dvořák's 3-minute "Humoresque" an ideal encore—a short, familiar piece appended to a c...
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