The best Tiger Rag

Here's yet another version of Tiger Rag. This is Tatum's fastest and cleanest performance of this piece, as far as I know. This is the version you want to send to your snobby classical music-loving friend who's always ragging on jazz pianists for having inferior technique.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Art
• Tatum
• Tiger
• Rag
• jazz
• stride
• piano
• virtuoso
• pwnage

[Santosificationable]

This proves that one man is better than Chuck Norris.

[bwbhsk]

5 people can´t hear that fast!

[Redflowers9]

Not many people surprise me in this world but this guy... I find him truly unbelievable. How? How? How?

[Santosificationable]

@paullubliner Also, why contrast Beethoven and Tatum when they're most probably on the same musical level?

[Santosificationable]

@paullubliner What do you mean by "sloppy"?

[paullubliner]

@minnesotafan117: I didn't say he wasn't really good did I? All I accurately said was that he was sloppy. This is great fun BUT, I stand by my comment. The issue with "sloppy," is that no two takes are reliably the same. In other words, this freestyle type of playing is ONLY for a soloist, not even useable for duets or trios. That's why Jazz insists upon "trading fours" etc. as the main focus of performing as opposed the brilliance of Beethoven's Archduke trio and the like.

[minnesotafan117]

@paullubliner

i still dont understand how you may know how the piano technique works but ok.

lets call it a truce shall we not?

[paullubliner]

@minnesotafan117: Yes I do know a bit about it, Harpsichord plucking as well. My school was affiliated with the Paris Conservatory. I was accepted on a full scholarship at 12 with a Vivaldi piece and finished with the Lalo Cello Concerto after many Masters Classes, Solfege, Dictation, Theory, Harmony and Composition. Yes the "Soft-loud," sure only a tiny-little-bit. LOL! He was sloppy, that's all. You at 21 are still rebelling and not even aware. In time you will understand.

[paullubliner]

@Santosificationable Rachmaninoff dedicated his second piano concerto to his therapist in 1905, he was NUTS!

[ballvl1]

man, i don't even think the speed of LIGHT is that fast and accurate.

[Santosificationable]

@paullubliner You're a "cellist/guitarist" and you say things like "inferior technique??? Yup...." to a PIANIST who has been admired by Rachmaninoff? I don't think this is the time and place to make jokes like that, doode (unless you don't know what the word "Rachmaninoff" means, in which case your comment IS funny).

[minnesotafan117]

@paullubliner

and btw what may you possibaly know about the forte-piano and its technical ways if you are a so called "guitarist...."