The greatest jazz performer of all time. So much to take in. Has to be listened in moderate amounts at a time or you become overwhelmed. Not that one isn't anyway 😊
I've been listening to Tatum for 56 years. Just heard the Sweet Lorraine at the beginning of this program. Simply astonishing. I have the same response that I had when I was eighteen: his comprehension of music is way beyond my ken. Now 'I cover the waterfront' and I'm lost for words......
You're spot on when you remark on his "comprehension of music", which is something that often gets overlooked by his mind-blowing technique. All that fabulous technique would get very boring real fast had Tatum not had an inexhaustible musical vocabulary. He was a musical guru with an encyclopedic knowledge and deep comprehension of all the musical dialects he incorporated into his playing...from classical to blues to stride and beyond. Tatum was perhaps jazz's first true virtuoso...admired by classical and jazz musicians equally. The notion of instrumental virtuosity in the jazz idiom became a pursuit of younger great musicians like Charlie Parker took root in the jazz world with the emergence of Art Tatum. As the great trumpet player and author, Roy Eldridge, remarked in his book the art form..."Art Tatum is the invisible man in the development of jazz. Anybody who ever heard him was changed by him forever"...or word to that effect. I still say he is the most underrated, under-appreciated genius in all of jazz.
I'm from the UK. Ask any Brit who Art Tatum was and the answer you'll probably get is, "Which football team did he play for?" Who's to blame for this? I'll tell you. Collectively it’s the ignoramuses in charge of the appallingly bad education system we have in this country, that's who.
Hey people, help me out here. I am drawn to Art Tatum because he was such a big influence on Oscar Peterson. But when I listen to Tatum, I hear someone often more concerned with 'getting in a good lick' than actually making the music work. He puts in riffs that he can't pull off, loses his rhythm, etc. Oscar Peterson talked about how pianists were ALWAYS trying to one-up each other. It seems to me Art Tatum was a genius, but let fancy technique dominate his music, like at :48 in the first song. What am I missing?
Music has no rules and Tatum is genius enough to put no boundaries over his music or constrain his creativity in a little box like most people do playing for the listener and not their heart. You can go ahead and play a careful melody with so much predictability it makes me sick to my stomach just like how the rest of people like pop with 4 chords if you were an actual technician of the piano you would understand the necessity of these runs and how fun they are to play. The genius it is to place them tastefully whenever it is suitable. You simply just have nothing in common with it to understand it.
The greatest jazz performer of all time. So much to take in. Has to be listened in moderate amounts at a time or you become overwhelmed. Not that one isn't anyway 😊
I've been listening to Tatum for 56 years. Just heard the Sweet Lorraine at the beginning of this program. Simply astonishing. I have the same response that I had when I was eighteen: his comprehension of music is way beyond my ken. Now 'I cover the waterfront' and I'm lost for words......
You're spot on when you remark on his "comprehension of music", which is something that often gets overlooked by his mind-blowing technique. All that fabulous technique would get very boring real fast had Tatum not had an inexhaustible musical vocabulary. He was a musical guru with an encyclopedic knowledge and deep comprehension of all the musical dialects he incorporated into his playing...from classical to blues to stride and beyond. Tatum was perhaps jazz's first true virtuoso...admired by classical and jazz musicians equally. The notion of instrumental virtuosity in the jazz idiom became a pursuit of younger great musicians like Charlie Parker took root in the jazz world with the emergence of Art Tatum. As the great trumpet player and author, Roy Eldridge, remarked in his book the art form..."Art Tatum is the invisible man in the development of jazz. Anybody who ever heard him was changed by him forever"...or word to that effect. I still say he is the most underrated, under-appreciated genius in all of jazz.
Everything he does has a touch of MAGICK. AWESOME!
never mind what jazz has produced, he'z beyond by far the greatest of any genre...
LEGEND
the greatest musician of all times
Are we going to listen to episodes 3 & 4 ???
Same here damn
I'm from the UK. Ask any Brit who Art Tatum was and the answer you'll probably get is, "Which football team did he play for?" Who's to blame for this? I'll tell you. Collectively it’s the ignoramuses in charge of the appallingly bad education system we have in this country, that's who.
Purpa drank and blunts!!
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Hey people, help me out here. I am drawn to Art Tatum because he was such a big influence on Oscar Peterson. But when I listen to Tatum, I hear someone often more concerned with 'getting in a good lick' than actually making the music work. He puts in riffs that he can't pull off, loses his rhythm, etc. Oscar Peterson talked about how pianists were ALWAYS trying to one-up each other. It seems to me Art Tatum was a genius, but let fancy technique dominate his music, like at :48 in the first song. What am I missing?
Ears
Music has no rules and Tatum is genius enough to put no boundaries over his music or constrain his creativity in a little box like most people do playing for the listener and not their heart. You can go ahead and play a careful melody with so much predictability it makes me sick to my stomach just like how the rest of people like pop with 4 chords if you were an actual technician of the piano you would understand the necessity of these runs and how fun they are to play. The genius it is to place them tastefully whenever it is suitable. You simply just have nothing in common with it to understand it.
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