It's amazing how he did something that many piano teachers would've told him was impossible - play the piano for two people. Make his two hands do the work of four. This is crazy, I was gonna start a business & people were telling me I shouldn't & yada yada but now I think I'm definitely gonna go through with it because this right here is proof that people don't know what they're talking about. As long as you have the drive and the passion to do something, it is possible. This is inspiration.
@Aatifah you have found the secret,............the thing mediocre people dont dare talk about................only with the heart can one see rightly..........
@cthomson1 "Vladimir Horowitz once said that if Art Tatum ever took up classical music seriously, Horowitz would quit the next day." donc je pense qu'il admirait Art Tatum
I'm sorry but he is the best. I don't know much but I do know this. Every pianist I've heard doesn't reach that speed, accuracy and coordination with creative flair. He is just obviously the best pianist in terms of playing. The only criticism I would make is that it seems that the runs are over done but hell if you could play that well, why wouldn't you 'over do' them?
Art Tatum could hear things other pianists couldn't; AND..he managed to play them on the keyboard in such a manner that left other musicians gasping. RIP Art
There's a great story I heard Hank Jones tell. He said the first time he heard Tatum on the radio, he said "oh, I know, that's 2 piano players." The, when he went to see him for the first time in a club downstairs, he had to leave. As he was walking up the stairs, he saw Bud Powell coming down. He said to Bud: "don't go down there."
... and just in case of someone is still missing it: Oscar Peterson stopped playing for one month when he fist listened to this same recording..... uuuhhh !
It true, most people can't even appreciate his playing, because it takes skill and a very trained ear just to realize that he is playing the impossible. Record it, then play it back in slow motion, maybe then you will realize how much you actually missed. And you can't appreciate what you cannot hear.
i know very little about piano playing, dont care to listen to it much, but to me this cat sounds like 2, possibly 3 people playing at once. like his left and right hand don't really get along that well. maybe they are pissed at each other because they are fighting over the same woman and want to prove who is the better hand. i simply cant get my head around it and that is fantastic. anybody who knows how he came to this technique please, educate me...
@MrByaeger well legend has it that his mother bought him a book of piano pieces for 2 people, but he didn't realize it so he just learned them anyway.... he was a prodigy since he was 3....
@pinneappl yes i heard that also...i don't think you can even really fully appreicate how great art tatum is unless you have actually played yourself...I've been playing about 35 years and he just blows my mind ever time i hear him.
@pinneappl Art started learning from a piano roll that his mother bought for him that was recorded with four hands. He had trouble seeing from birth, completely blind in one eye and very limited sight in the other. He grew up learning only by ear and the piano rolls that his mother bought for him.
But it doesn't take a genius to realize that he was certainly a musician of the highest degree; IIRC at three years old he was learning church hymns and piano roll recordings. Just like Mozart's first compositions at age 5.
In those days music was music pure skill Talent and genius NOT a good make up artist and the ability to wail into a microphone wearing stupid costumes art Tatum i bet never needed big tits to wow an audience !
Excluding anything played by this great man, I dare anyone to find a better piano solo than "Fingerbuster" by Willie the Lion Smith, and "Fingerbreaker" by Jelly Roll Morton! Lemme know!
Gyorgy Cziffra is one of the well-known classical piano virtuosos out there. Check out his version of "flight of the bumblebee" which is a pretty tough transcription.
No seriously...it takes a FUCKIN LIFETIME just to play this piece. Well, maybe after 10 years of hard technique training.
That being said, you would probably need an advanced life-increaser medicine that makes you live up to 1,500 years old, so you can practice and practice until you're almost as good a musician as Tatum.
Honestly.. I'm still trying to develop an ear for Jazz now. I cant seem to follow many of the famous Jazz artists through their improvisations. But this guy.. I found out about him for the first time today.. and ive been mesmerized by his playing. I've never heard anything like it. Yesterday, I would have never have considered the piano to be one of my favourite instruments. Today, that definitely has changed.
@djtinz7 Well ny pal, that is because you have just heard of him, but don't let it put you the mango off. I play me better than most and I have never heard of him.
@marvinkmooneyoz You must be joking, because the first overdubbed recording ever was made by Les Paul in 1948, some 15 years after this masterpiece, Lennie Tristano's Line up & Turkish mambo are both fine examples of the strange timbre that you get when you mess with tape-speed or overdubbing
Man...Tatum MUST be split right down the middle...because he really does make it sound like TWO fab players. Listen to the incredible left hand...the independence.. on beat..off beat...up beat...meanwhile right hand just screamin; out the riffs. WOW!!!
Amazing!!! And I was reading about how the human brain never lets any "brain real estate" be wasted from a book "The Brain that changes itself". His blindness may have given him much more "grey matter" - his unused visual cortex - where his magnificent talent came from. If he had regained his vision, he might have been just an average pianist.
I BET ON ANYTHING THAT IF ANY OF THESE" jazz players" WOULD HAVE SEEN A RECITAL OF FRANZ LISZT OR PAGANINI, AFTER THAT NONE OF THEM WOULD EVEN DARE TO TOUCH THE PIANO OR VIOLIN.,.,.LOL,.,.,.,..,
A jazz saxophonist introduced me to Art Tatum in the 1990s.. I'd drive all over the East Coast looking for an electronics engineering job in my Saab 900 with Art Tatum cassette tapes playing all the time. I was amazed and bowled over with this king of the piano.
Quizá, imitado, igualado, mas nunca superado por el genial Oscar Peterson, para mi, el segundo mejor del Piano a nivel de Jazz Universal en todo los tiempos
Como ese demente nadie, quizá algun pianista clásico de la guardia vieja, logre imtiar su técnica y esto ...porque el lenguaje de improvisacion, su capacidad y patrones armonicos y melódicos a la hora de improvisar eran inigualables, el intervalo de sus notas y sobre todo lo que trasmitia, yo escuche a Bethoven y a Mozart y me alegra el alma, pero escucho a este hombre y lo que ago es llorar de alegria, trasmite mas, es mas profundo, sus pasajes, su lenguaje tecnico, ademas las notas que utiliza
There are rumors that Art Tatum is actually a prototype super soldier programmed to fight in World War One. Instead his objective switched from "fight" to "shred piano". To the military he was a failed subject, to music... *head explodes*
@jaekn..... everyone is entitled to their own opinions, and that fine, except in this case. I just want you to know that I'm doing this for your own good. CHANGE YOUR MIND!!!!! I DON'T WANT YOU TO WAKE UP DEAD. trust me, with that outlook, it could happen.....
@BoudiccaBlanc Did you actually read what "cthomson1" said? Lol your message makes absolutely no sense at all.
VanargrandsEnd 1 week ago
O_O and people think musicians are good now? I can't believe a guy played like this 80+ years ago.
RainWiLLIDie 2 weeks ago
There is no way you can listen to this once....
Mopreme75 1 month ago 3
It's amazing how he did something that many piano teachers would've told him was impossible - play the piano for two people. Make his two hands do the work of four. This is crazy, I was gonna start a business & people were telling me I shouldn't & yada yada but now I think I'm definitely gonna go through with it because this right here is proof that people don't know what they're talking about. As long as you have the drive and the passion to do something, it is possible. This is inspiration.
Aatifah 2 months ago 11
@Aatifah you have found the secret,............the thing mediocre people dont dare talk about................only with the heart can one see rightly..........
vetmusician 2 weeks ago
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@Aatifah
It helps to have some God-given talent for a particular field (or task)
:))
Art Tatum.....
h t t p: / / en. wikipedia. org/ wiki/ Art_Tatum
However, "Aatifah" I wish you the best and I encourage you to pursue your dreams.
God Bless You! :))
BoudiccaBlanc 1 week ago
14 people's last names are Horowitz.
cthomson1 2 months ago 2
@cthomson1 Even though horowitz was in awe of art and vise versa? lol fail
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BoudiccaBlanc 1 week ago
@cthomson1 "Vladimir Horowitz once said that if Art Tatum ever took up classical music seriously, Horowitz would quit the next day." donc je pense qu'il admirait Art Tatum
gammaGTgammajereste 1 month ago
@gammaGTgammajereste Horowitz assistait régulièrement aux concerts d'Art Tatum, ça veut tout dire...
DVDKC 1 month ago
Thank you Lord for lending us one of your musicians to marvel after :)
TheGifted901 2 months ago 3
Art denies the fact that he learned piano roll recordings for four hands. But still at age 3, he pretty much well mastered some songs already.
Santosificationable 2 months ago
Hey! I have an old 78 of this guy! What a great piano player.
TrumpJennifer 3 months ago
Awesome.TY Q344 for posting
paulostroff99 3 months ago
I'm sorry but he is the best. I don't know much but I do know this. Every pianist I've heard doesn't reach that speed, accuracy and coordination with creative flair. He is just obviously the best pianist in terms of playing. The only criticism I would make is that it seems that the runs are over done but hell if you could play that well, why wouldn't you 'over do' them?
Redflowers9 3 months ago 2
@Redflowers9 He overdid them because he was bored.
vietquynguyen 3 months ago
@vietquynguyen Now you've mentioned it, it does fit the picture.
Redflowers9 3 months ago
I feel guilty that I can't applaud with four hands.
fairalways 3 months ago 9
Art Tatum could hear things other pianists couldn't; AND..he managed to play them on the keyboard in such a manner that left other musicians gasping. RIP Art
brabazon10 3 months ago
This is the drum and bass of the thirties :D
redrummyuk 3 months ago in playlist redrummyuk's Favorited Videos
The incredible part about this song is if you slow it down at like half speed, it sounds even better than this (to me atleast)!
16yearoldwhiteboy 4 months ago
There's a great story I heard Hank Jones tell. He said the first time he heard Tatum on the radio, he said "oh, I know, that's 2 piano players." The, when he went to see him for the first time in a club downstairs, he had to leave. As he was walking up the stairs, he saw Bud Powell coming down. He said to Bud: "don't go down there."
1967ax 4 months ago 4
Yes, it was indeed nice for him to visit our planet. He certainly was from another.
1967ax 4 months ago
craaaaazy
tkwtg 4 months ago
que prodigio total, genio total, maestrooooooooooooooo
tonitoarroyo 4 months ago
Art is ... LEGEND OF 1900 !!! :))
sdoruconstantin 4 months ago 8
@loulou741 Well Loulou, God is taking lessons from Art right now, I think.
cobidelft 4 months ago
** fist = first
TheDaveSpaceBand 4 months ago
... and just in case of someone is still missing it: Oscar Peterson stopped playing for one month when he fist listened to this same recording..... uuuhhh !
TheDaveSpaceBand 4 months ago
It true, most people can't even appreciate his playing, because it takes skill and a very trained ear just to realize that he is playing the impossible. Record it, then play it back in slow motion, maybe then you will realize how much you actually missed. And you can't appreciate what you cannot hear.
player0639 5 months ago 4
io amo quest'uomo..!!
faluc10 5 months ago
i know very little about piano playing, dont care to listen to it much, but to me this cat sounds like 2, possibly 3 people playing at once. like his left and right hand don't really get along that well. maybe they are pissed at each other because they are fighting over the same woman and want to prove who is the better hand. i simply cant get my head around it and that is fantastic. anybody who knows how he came to this technique please, educate me...
MrByaeger 5 months ago
@MrByaeger well legend has it that his mother bought him a book of piano pieces for 2 people, but he didn't realize it so he just learned them anyway.... he was a prodigy since he was 3....
pinneappl 5 months ago
@pinneappl well, that would make total sense..very cool
MrByaeger 5 months ago
@pinneappl yes i heard that also...i don't think you can even really fully appreicate how great art tatum is unless you have actually played yourself...I've been playing about 35 years and he just blows my mind ever time i hear him.
renduke 5 months ago
@pinneappl Art started learning from a piano roll that his mother bought for him that was recorded with four hands. He had trouble seeing from birth, completely blind in one eye and very limited sight in the other. He grew up learning only by ear and the piano rolls that his mother bought for him.
Absolutely AMAZING
trossitrumpet 4 months ago
@trossitrumpet No, he denied that.
But it doesn't take a genius to realize that he was certainly a musician of the highest degree; IIRC at three years old he was learning church hymns and piano roll recordings. Just like Mozart's first compositions at age 5.
Santosificationable 2 months ago
"Ladies and gentlemen...I am just a piano player. But this evening...
GOD is in the house."
- Fats Waller
mcul2112 5 months ago 6
I don't know how his fingers didn't fall off halfway through! This man was a beast!!!
latinaconflava 6 months ago
In those days music was music pure skill Talent and genius NOT a good make up artist and the ability to wail into a microphone wearing stupid costumes art Tatum i bet never needed big tits to wow an audience !
Gillyyorkie 6 months ago 4
...and I thought my bicycle was roaring down that hill! ...until I saw a FREAKING SPACE SHUTTLE NAMED ART TATUM FLY BY !!!
Hyperclefonical598 6 months ago 2
ART TATUM get it!
PetalsOfSpain 6 months ago
Awesome. My first name is Tatum.
tatumlpsdirector 6 months ago
...Teh fuck? >:O
RecalcitrantFunksaur 6 months ago
Shut the fuck up about instrumental technique already and just enjoy the sounds.
EquinoxParadox91 6 months ago
OH MY GAWD did he just rape that piano?!!!
Tiradin10987 6 months ago 2
GWWWAAAAADAAAAMMMNNNNNNN! u SUCK JUSTIN BIEBER. ART TATUM IS A REAL ARTIST.
860125mwj 6 months ago 2
That's impossible...
billcottles 7 months ago 2
@billcottles Impossible is nothing !!! Tatum is real ! ;)
sdoruconstantin 6 months ago 2
The right hand of God without a doubt!
jp28hc 7 months ago 3
@jp28hc He had better technique in his left
WASTiiD 6 months ago
Well, I'll sell my piano and buy a tambourine
hpentimalli 7 months ago 9
it was nice of him to visit our planet
pianolicious134 7 months ago 200
@pianolicious134 Nice comment about the master.
SkippyZ1210 2 months ago
Chuck Norris can play an H note on the piano
Art Tatum can play the piano with a picture
Santosificationable 7 months ago 3
It's almost comical how good he us.
drno62 7 months ago 3
Excluding anything played by this great man, I dare anyone to find a better piano solo than "Fingerbuster" by Willie the Lion Smith, and "Fingerbreaker" by Jelly Roll Morton! Lemme know!
RealRockandRoll 8 months ago
@RealRockandRoll
Jelly Roll for the win!
EuphoricDan 7 months ago
@RealRockandRoll matthew ball's Shuffle and stomp.
PianoLover1114 7 months ago
@PianoLover1114 Fingerbreaker beats that hands down, but nice pick....
RealRockandRoll 7 months ago
@RealRockandRoll handful of keys by fats waller
DylHsu 7 months ago
@DylHsu hmmm...
RealRockandRoll 7 months ago
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@RealRockandRoll or carolina shout by fats waller
DylHsu 7 months ago
@RealRockandRoll I'm pretty sure you'll like Donald Lambert's technique and classical interpretations
alexjrmarino 5 months ago
He attacks the notes with devilish glee. Fits the anecdotes I've read about him at cutting contests, against those foolish enough to challenge him...
stevetadworkz 8 months ago
Dang...he plays so fast I can't even see his fingers move...
ilovejapanesepeople 8 months ago 52
@ilovejapanesepeople he doesn't seem to breathe or anything, either!
lostpianist 2 weeks ago
This is almost like listening to the Circus Galop...xD
Santosificationable 8 months ago
Interesting to note, Rachmaninoff allegedly said that he was the greatest instrumentalist in any type of Western genre...
Santosificationable 8 months ago 5
The greatest virtuoso in Jazz History?most likely,incomparable!
gratefultiger 8 months ago 4
Love the Chopin-esque runs!
damightyom 8 months ago
Gyorgy Cziffra is one of the well-known classical piano virtuosos out there. Check out his version of "flight of the bumblebee" which is a pretty tough transcription.
Santosificationable 8 months ago
peterson and him are gods
Kep0v 8 months ago
No fucker can do that.unless they're a machine.
vimana19 8 months ago
No sorry...25 years of technique training, I mean.
Santosificationable 8 months ago
No seriously...it takes a FUCKIN LIFETIME just to play this piece. Well, maybe after 10 years of hard technique training.
That being said, you would probably need an advanced life-increaser medicine that makes you live up to 1,500 years old, so you can practice and practice until you're almost as good a musician as Tatum.
Santosificationable 8 months ago
His skills match Cziffra's
No wonder he's called a god.
Santosificationable 8 months ago 2
@Santosificationable Who is Cziffra?
vimana19 8 months ago
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speedskis777 8 months ago
@Santosificationable Couldn't agree more. This technique is scary it's so good.
speedskis777 8 months ago
Honestly.. I'm still trying to develop an ear for Jazz now. I cant seem to follow many of the famous Jazz artists through their improvisations. But this guy.. I found out about him for the first time today.. and ive been mesmerized by his playing. I've never heard anything like it. Yesterday, I would have never have considered the piano to be one of my favourite instruments. Today, that definitely has changed.
djtinz7 9 months ago 5
@djtinz7 Well ny pal, that is because you have just heard of him, but don't let it put you the mango off. I play me better than most and I have never heard of him.
vimana19 8 months ago
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djtinz7 9 months ago
THIS IS BETTER THAN ORGASM !!! :))
sdoruconstantin 9 months ago
i can play this on a melodica with one hand
MrNuclearphysics 9 months ago
Horowitz said that if Tatum ever switched to Classical, Horowitz would lose his job.
werq34ac 9 months ago 2
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This is OBVIOUSLY overdubbed
marvinkmooneyoz 9 months ago
@mrvinkmooneyoz
OBVIOUSLY not.
cincaxam 9 months ago
@marvinkmooneyoz Wrong!!
jibsmokestack1 9 months ago
@marvinkmooneyoz You must be joking, because the first overdubbed recording ever was made by Les Paul in 1948, some 15 years after this masterpiece, Lennie Tristano's Line up & Turkish mambo are both fine examples of the strange timbre that you get when you mess with tape-speed or overdubbing
alexjrmarino 5 months ago
@alexjrmarino correct! donald lambert was an amazing "harlem stride" piano player!
RealRockandRoll 5 months ago
I can play this...on planet no $#%@ing chance
marvinkmooneyoz 9 months ago
UNBELIEVABLE
supecte 9 months ago
wrap me in plaster .. this is such a blast .. Got to go on playin the joana al t day thrue
SYNTHPAINTANN 9 months ago
Art tatum played the impossible
RusselProcope 10 months ago 5
I like mortons version
homedepot20car 10 months ago
13 people can't accept the fact that Justin bieber was never officially a god, unlike Tatum. :D
Santosificationable 10 months ago
I never realised Chuck Norris played the piano.
jazzlover06 10 months ago 7
0:15 IS IMPOSSIBLE. HE ACTUALLY REACHED A NOTE HIGHER THAN HIGH C. AND ITS NOT THE RECORDING. HOLY.....
EyMeng 10 months ago
13 People tried to play this song.
Xecreterost 10 months ago 224
@Xecreterost lol yeah and they started hating it cause it was too much for their small brains lol
princeashtonsdad 10 months ago
@princeashtonsdad lol Naw, I doubt anybody would be able to play this.
Xecreterost 10 months ago
@Xecreterost no there are quite a few who can
chaveznieves 10 months ago
@chaveznieves Prolly 0.000003% of people who play piano can play this.
Xecreterost 10 months ago 3
@Xecreterost more than that, but still very little
chaveznieves 10 months ago
@Xecreterost Hi xD
OpticxNick 10 months ago
@Xecreterost how many of them succeeded?
cagatay181 8 months ago
@Xecreterost
hahahaha
DAsterion 7 months ago
@Xecreterost this is actually a musical piece, because... well a song is meant to be sang.
QuadBloody 6 months ago
@Xecreterost HAHAHAHAH... that's the best comment yet.
frankd14321 3 months ago
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757pianoman 10 months ago
Ragtime on crack....love it
birmilhan 10 months ago
Virtuoso pianist and musician! Unbelievable! For me, jazz is the ultimate musical achievement. Thanks for posting!
tachuman 11 months ago
Man...Tatum MUST be split right down the middle...because he really does make it sound like TWO fab players. Listen to the incredible left hand...the independence.. on beat..off beat...up beat...meanwhile right hand just screamin; out the riffs. WOW!!!
KingHopeMusic 11 months ago
While I was listening, an ad showed up for piano teachers in Durham. Fuck that.
Lassannn 11 months ago
13 DEAF ppl listened to this video. LOL AWESOME!
googolion 11 months ago 2
the 2nd most insane thing ever, just behind the extended version of 'not again' by shawn lane.
ChiZ712 11 months ago
He definitely had the balls to play something different than what everyone else was playing at the time. LISTEN TO THIS BITCHES.
disruptore4 11 months ago 2
I started listening to Art Tatum after Shawn Lane said he was a huge fan.
MegaYoshitsune 1 year ago 9
@MegaYoshitsune fuck yeah!
biskwikman 11 months ago
How did the piano feel right after ART played this song?
panelacosmica 1 year ago 8
@panelacosmica lol.....excellent remark
Cossack7357 1 year ago
Goosbumps!
letsif 1 year ago
WOW!!!! : ) What a thrill!!!! A true genius! Thanks for posting it!
movcharov 1 year ago
Awesome!
chopinsky1810 1 year ago
Amazing!!! And I was reading about how the human brain never lets any "brain real estate" be wasted from a book "The Brain that changes itself". His blindness may have given him much more "grey matter" - his unused visual cortex - where his magnificent talent came from. If he had regained his vision, he might have been just an average pianist.
yaktur 1 year ago 5
Tatum definetely has the power to make lady gaga dissapear
CBasie2856 1 year ago 134
@CBasie2856 yes! if only he were still alive, he would have too!
drunks2000 11 months ago
I wonder whether Art Tatum's invisible 3rd hand was right or left one...
pianOracle 11 months ago 4
@pianOracle
both right and left
CBasie2856 11 months ago
@CBasie2856 That's true, but the mind of those who listen to Lady Gaga don't have "room enough" on his mind to understand this music... sad but true!
Zhylar 11 months ago
@Zhylar
or Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Handel, Schubert for that matter....
CBasie2856 11 months ago
@CBasie2856 Please don't mention her, or Justin Bieber, or Rebecca Black. The crap that has now become our music industry.
jasonextreme 9 months ago
I CAN SEE A BENGAL TIGER TO THE BUSHES !!!!
sdoruconstantin 1 year ago 5
G E N I U S!!!!!!!!!!!!
o0R3stless0o 1 year ago 3
Art Tatum lives, breathes, and is - piano.
BasementBeginnings 1 year ago 3
Art Tatum était un génie et a inspiré des artistes tels que Ray Charles ou Oscar Peterson. Rien que pour ça, merci
FatheadLL42 1 year ago
god damn
crittinger 1 year ago
If there is anybody who could truly smack it, flip it and rub it down, that would be Art's art on Piano.
yantravimana 1 year ago
i am hearing about this man for the first time on mpr radio. i love this sooooo much
mjjcng8958 1 year ago
Ouch! I give up!
angelialvares 1 year ago
....... Geez...Everytime I listen to Tatum's music, I want to quit playing jazz piano. If only I could have his hands and brain....
gn2568 1 year ago
I BET ON ANYTHING THAT IF ANY OF THESE" jazz players" WOULD HAVE SEEN A RECITAL OF FRANZ LISZT OR PAGANINI, AFTER THAT NONE OF THEM WOULD EVEN DARE TO TOUCH THE PIANO OR VIOLIN.,.,.LOL,.,.,.,..,
bazzatt1 1 year ago
@bazzatt1
Horowitz was reportedly fascinated with Tatum's virtuosity. Skill is skill, no matter what the genre.
daniel15671 1 year ago 3
@bazzatt1
Rachmaninoff reportedly, after hearing Tatum play, declared him to be the best pianist of any style.
casishul 1 year ago
@bazzatt1 I dunno, dude. God plays a mean Chopin.
ravenwing613 1 year ago 2
Tatum is sure beating the shit out of the Tiger cat. I wonder if in real life he could take down a tiger cat. I bet he could because he's God.
CBasie2856 1 year ago 2
I honestly can say that I have never heard piano playing like it. Now I can see where Oscar Peterson came from.
369wk 1 year ago
I used to have nightmares were Tatum's god fingers wanted to push the shit out of me like I was Tiger Rag.
sakuramathic 1 year ago
A jazz saxophonist introduced me to Art Tatum in the 1990s.. I'd drive all over the East Coast looking for an electronics engineering job in my Saab 900 with Art Tatum cassette tapes playing all the time. I was amazed and bowled over with this king of the piano.
freeqwerqwer 1 year ago
Tatum is the fastest sprinter in the US and he jumps over all the hurdles without tripping over a single one
CBasie2856 1 year ago
Quizá, imitado, igualado, mas nunca superado por el genial Oscar Peterson, para mi, el segundo mejor del Piano a nivel de Jazz Universal en todo los tiempos
caribemusic 1 year ago 2
Como ese demente nadie, quizá algun pianista clásico de la guardia vieja, logre imtiar su técnica y esto ...porque el lenguaje de improvisacion, su capacidad y patrones armonicos y melódicos a la hora de improvisar eran inigualables, el intervalo de sus notas y sobre todo lo que trasmitia, yo escuche a Bethoven y a Mozart y me alegra el alma, pero escucho a este hombre y lo que ago es llorar de alegria, trasmite mas, es mas profundo, sus pasajes, su lenguaje tecnico, ademas las notas que utiliza
caribemusic 1 year ago 2
Actually, Art had about 25% vision in one eye and those piano rolls were by two people - 4 hands! This Tiger Rag dates from 1932 for Brunswick.
Ken9Skinner 1 year ago
Actually, Art had about 25% vision in one eye and those piano rolls were by two people - 4 hands!
Ken9Skinner 1 year ago
There are rumors that Art Tatum is actually a prototype super soldier programmed to fight in World War One. Instead his objective switched from "fight" to "shred piano". To the military he was a failed subject, to music... *head explodes*
JalapenoJr 1 year ago 5
AND he was born blind. Beethoven said screw my ears. Tatum said screw my eyes. It can be done.
Lassannn 1 year ago 2
Now that is some increcible piano playing. It's all there: melody, harmony, rhythm, feel...
thinkermanmusic 1 year ago
MY EARS FLEW OFF MY HEAD GOD DAMN
bambadep 1 year ago 3
crazy stuff.
buffalobilly 1 year ago
I guess God just makes some people to play the piano. This guy was amazing!!!!
pianosa1993 1 year ago
Always amazing to listen to. He's also amazing to watch. Seemingly no effort whatsoever.
keyboardmaniac55 1 year ago
wow:0
2456awesome 1 year ago
Tatum was a genius of geniuses!
Genius classical pianist V. Gorovitz said that if he've heard Tatum when he was a chid, he never start to learn a piano!
MrAudioProducer 1 year ago
Happy birthday Art Tatum!
served007 1 year ago
Happy birthday to Art, true genius :D
writersblock99 1 year ago
I share a birthday with a musical genius
The83rdTrombonist 1 year ago
When Oscar Peterson heard this at the tender age, he couldn't stop crying with despair that he will never be this good according to his Bio.
Doahuou 1 year ago
how
ThatsaCryinShame 1 year ago
Классная музыка!
MichaelResEvil 1 year ago
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ToroCheng34 1 year ago
@ToroCheng34 AHAHAHA QUOTE
DeeJayChipZ 1 year ago
Piano GENIUS!
wa1ufo 1 year ago 2
If you think about it, this is nearly impossible, ha.
foodmunkey 1 year ago
Happy would-be 100th bday Art!
veradlish 1 year ago 3
@jaekn..... everyone is entitled to their own opinions, and that fine, except in this case. I just want you to know that I'm doing this for your own good. CHANGE YOUR MIND!!!!! I DON'T WANT YOU TO WAKE UP DEAD. trust me, with that outlook, it could happen.....
mhudson205 1 year ago
chuck norris's warm up
David1998S 1 year ago
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@David1998S
Chuck Norris is a fag