Art Tatum -- Little Man You've Had a Busy Day

Art Tatum playing "Little Man You've Had a Busy Day".

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[JazzKeyboardist1]

A "true" story I heard on my national public radio jazz station,,,, Oscar Peterson, Art and a bunch of pianists were at a club, and they all got up to play, one at a time, Art followed Oscar, and Tatum played Little Man you ve had a busy day,,,, Everyone in the club got the joke, but it was supposed to be all in fun,,,, A great book to steal Art's licks is by Riccardo Scivales,,the right hand according to Tatum, Ekay Music inc,,,, and no, my name is not riccardo lol

[v6pete]

If Tatum had been an electronics guy, he'd have invented the internt and the iphone back in 1950...in his lunch break.

[Chris Koro]

ill never understand how he played so fast and perfectly, did he live in some kind of time warp or something??

[Pinkie Eldred]

Isn't this enough to convince jazz piano lovers that Art Tatum could not ever be overrated. That this astonishing mind with these astonishing fingers. Marquel Johnson said ..

".You can play fast and still sound like crap.When art tatum played fast, it actually sounded like something." Exactly..

[johnny102marvin]

I hear a lot of chromatic scales. I'll have to start adding more chromatic fast runs to my pop songs.

[K Lee]

This is one of my favorite recordings of Art Tatum. He along with Bud Powell are my two favorite jazz pianist. It truly is a sweet and beautiful performance. Thanks for uploading.

[Mikhail Schmokloff]

I see you in every Tatum video, 16 year old, white boy.

[Chris Koro]

I don't think the saying There's always some1 thats better than you out there, no matter how hard you try applies to this man and he didn't even have to try..

[TheGifted901]

This is a testament to the little gifts straight from heaven God creates by touching his children with just one finger...

[darynbond]

2:43 who didn't gasp?

[Marquel Johnson]

Art does not always play fast either. A good piano player does not always play fast because thats not what the piano is all about.You can play fast and still sound like crap.When art tatum played fast, it actually sounded like something.

[JakeZ0MG]

cool, bro (: