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The album was recorded during a solo piano concert given by Tatum at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in May 1949. [1] The concert was promoted by Gene Norman. [1] The material is a typical selection from Tatum's repertoire. [2]
Tatum also extended jazz piano's vocabulary and boundaries far beyond his initial stride influences, and established new ground through innovative use of reharmonization, voicing, and bitonality. Tatum grew up in Toledo, Ohio, where he began playing piano professionally and had his own radio program, rebroadcast nationwide, while still in his ...
Gene Norman Presents an Art Tatum Concert (Columbia, 1952) – rec. 1949 [2] [3] Art Tatum (Capitol, 1950) Art Tatum Encores (Capitol, 1951) Footnotes to Jazz, Vol. 2: Jazz Rehearsal, II (Folkways, 1952) Art Tatum Trio (Capitol, 1953) Battle of Jazz, Volume 2 septet including Tatum and Big Joe Turner; shared album with Zutty Singleton ...
Art Tatum – piano Recorded in New York City on July 13, 1949, for Capitol Records and released as Capitol M-11028 "Too Marvelous for Words" Art Tatum – piano Recorded in Hollywood, California in late 1956 for 20th Century Fox Records and released as 20th Century-Fox TCF 102-2 and Movietone 72021
The Genius of Art Tatum is a 1953-54 series of solo albums by jazz pianist Art Tatum originally issued on LP over 11 volumes. [1] First released on the Clef Records label, they were added to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1978. [2]
Critic Martin Williams wrote that pianist Art Tatum's 1949 recording of the piece for Capitol Records "seems so perfect in its overall pattern and pacing, with every short run and every ornament appropriate and in place, that it may be the masterpiece of all his recorded work."
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Another major figure was pianist Art Tatum: Tristano practiced solo Tatum pieces early in his career, [94] before gradually moving away from this influence in search of his own style. [95] Bebopper Bud Powell also affected Tristano's playing and teaching, as he admired the younger pianist's articulation and expression. [96]