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Art Tatum - The King of Jazz (2020)

Art Tatum - The King of Jazz (2020)

BAND/ARTIST: Art Tatum

  • Title: The King of Jazz
  • Year Of Release: 2020
  • Label: Before 1962 Recordings
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 3:33:20
  • Total Size: 808 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Blue Moon
02. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You
03. Fine and Dandy
04. Memories of You
05. Love Me or Leave Me
06. This Can't Be Love
07. When a Woman Loves a Man
08. The Man I Love
09. Stompin' at the Savoy
10. Would You Like to Take a Walk
11. You're Driving Me Crazy What Did I Do
12. Willow Weep for Me
13. Love for Sale
14. Cover the Waterfront
15. Body and Soul
16. All the Things You Are
17. Ain't Missbehaven'
18. I've Got a Crush on You
19. I'll See You in My Dreams
20. Judy
21. Stay as Sweet as You Are
22. Someone to Watch over Me
23. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
24. You Took Advantage of Me
25. Where or When
26. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
27. Louise
28. Japanese Sandman
29. In a Sentimental Mood
30. I Hadn't Anyone 'til You
31. Have You Met Miss Jones
32. If You Hadn't Gone Away
33. I'm in the Mood for Love
34. Begin the Beguine
35. Elegy
36. I'm Coming Virginia
37. September Song
38. Night and Day
39. Mighty Like a Rose
40. Tenderly
41. There Will Never Be Another You
42. Without a Song
43. Stardust
44. Over the Rainbow
45. Aunt Hagar's Blue
46. Humoresque
47. I'll See You Again
48. Embraceable You
49. Ill Wind
50. Jitterbug Waltz

Art Tatum was among the most extraordinary of all jazz musicians, a pianist with wondrous technique who could not only play ridiculously rapid lines with both hands (his 1933 solo version of "Tiger Rag" sounds as if there were three pianists jamming together) but was harmonically 30 years ahead of his time; all pianists have to deal to a certain extent with Tatum's innovations in order to be taken seriously. Able to play stride, swing, and boogie-woogie with speed and complexity that could only previously be imagined, Tatum's quick reflexes and boundless imagination kept his improvisations filled with fresh (and sometimes futuristic) ideas that put him way ahead of his contemporaries.

Born nearly blind, Tatum gained some formal piano training at the Toledo School of Music but was largely self-taught. Although influenced a bit by Fats Waller and the semi-classical pianists of the 1920s, there is really no explanation for where Tatum gained his inspiration and ideas from. He first played professionally in Toledo in the mid-'20s and had a radio show during 1929-1930. In 1932 Tatum traveled with singer Adelaide Hall to New York and made his recording debut accompanying Hall (as one of two pianists). But for those who had never heard him in person, it was his solos of 1933 (including "Tiger Rag") that announced the arrival of a truly major talent. In the 1930s, Tatum spent periods working in Cleveland, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and (in 1938) England. Although he led a popular trio with guitarist Tiny Grimes (later Everett Barksdale) and bassist Slam Stewart in the mid-'40s, Tatum spent most of his life as a solo pianist who could always scare the competition. Some observers criticized him for having too much technique (is such a thing possible?), working out and then keeping the same arrangements for particular songs, and for using too many notes, but those minor reservations pale when compared to Tatum's reworkings of such tunes as "Yesterdays," "Begin the Beguine," and even "Humoresque." Although he was not a composer, Tatum's rearrangements of standards made even warhorses sound like new compositions.

Art Tatum, who recorded for Decca throughout the 1930s and Capitol in the late '40s, starred at the Esquire Metropolitan Opera House concert of 1944 and appeared briefly in his only film in 1947, The Fabulous Dorseys (leading a jam session on a heated blues). He recorded extensively for Norman Granz near the end of his life in the 1950s, both solo and with all-star groups; all of the music has been reissued by Pablo on a six-CD box set. His premature death from uremia has not resulted in any loss of fame, for Art Tatum's recordings still have the ability to scare modern pianists. ~ Scott Yanow


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  • mufty77
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Many thanks for lossless.