ART TATUM: JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS

[mgm7041]

Great Cole Porter song. Tatum really does it justice too.

[ridingroy]

Seriously, this is the greatest Jazz playing I have ever heard...sounds like Art invented BeBop AND played it better than everyone else...

[nicodagger]

polymath, no the dwarf is Michael Petrucciani.

[dashriprock27]

Thank you!!! I thought this recording was lost. If I recall correctly, it was from a Verve album entitled The Art Tatum Trio. It also contained a truly Tatum-esque " recording of "Love For Sale." If you could post that I would be very grateful. Thanks again.

[nicodagger]

valvetron, yes absolutely, i wish i could have been in the forest when Chopin moved his piano out there and played....ditto Bach, the dwarf, etc.....I just used Mozart and Beethoven as the first examples of improvisatory genius that came to mind.

[polymath7]

@nicodagger "The dwarf"? You mean Schubert?

[valvetrom]

What a fantastic Song Writer Cole Porter was.

Do you know Dreamdancing.: first chords if in C

Fm major7, Bb 9#11, A major 7 ,

Dm9, G13 , C major7 ...... Written boldly by Porter

not by Coltrane

[JeromeW]

Genius. Absolute genius.

[nicodagger]

talldarkand handsome: excellent point about the clapping!! I'm a pianist, so maybe it hits me harder, but he is just AMAZING and peoples' heads should explode, but maybe most people just can't appreciate the genius. To me, this must have been what it was like to listen to Mozart or Beethoven improvise.

[valvetrom]

@nicodagger What about Bach, Chopin , List,

Oliver Messian

And last not least the Dwarf Michael PetruccianY

[talldarkandjamsome]

Idk, i find he does sound a little artificial at times. that's why i prefer listening to Oscar peterson, but this guy is on another level in another way.

what impresses me the most is how at the end you just get polite golf clapping, instead of the sound of peoples' brains exploding.

If i ever saw someone play like that live I'd have to go completely nuts once he finished.

[polymath7]

@talldarkandjamsome

"...how at the end you get polite golf clapping instead of the sound of people's heads exploding."

;-)"

[mahoose6]

the one and only

[BRazor78]

The only thing I find more amazing than his amazing lines is the fact he performs these PERFECTLY in time. He never drags nor speeds. Yet, he doesn't sound artificial.

[clementwarrior]

amazing guy, pity it died young ...

[arkjr]

Impossible: ET?

[arkjr]

Ikpossible: ET?