Dancing in the Dark (1953) by Art Tatum

From the album, "Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces Vol. 7", Pablo.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Art
• Tatum
• Piano
• Virtuoso
• Dancing
• in
• the
• Dark
• 1953

[brabazon10]

nobody ever quite replicated Art's tone, especially in a great old tune such as this...brilliant!

[bluesinorbit]

@brabazon10 In a word; word.

[bluesinorbit]

Seriously, a few pianists of the time had clarity of tone and touch on the piano like Tatum. Ellington is among the few. Gunther Schuller calls it "deep in the key" sound.

[DajaWaja]

@bluesinorbit yess!! i love you guys appreciate that kind of details as a pianist i always try to get that deep in the key sound but it is impossible to do it like they did!! sooo epic

[southgateandleigh]

First 2 mins are like recitative not sticking to strict time, just playing with ideas around this well known melody. He keeps the audience waiting to build tension and then finally lets it swing at 1:49. The joy of Art's playing is that however far the improvisations go he still keeps coming back with fragments of the melody so you don't even need to be a muso to follow what's going on. As often with Art the recording quality is not ideal but the content is there in spades!