Release Date: 15 June 2003
Label: Storyville Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 717101833429
Description
Art Tatum (piano) with the Clib Norman Orchestra: Bill Carter (tp), Bill Povey (as), Johnny Ord (ts), Ned Ciashine (acc), Murray Lauder (b), Don Hilton (dr). It’s been said many times before but it’s worth repeating, Tatum played the kind of music that is best savoured in small but intense doses. Like a landscape painted on a small canvas, Tatum recordings need to be savoured individually, they are so replete with astonishing detail. The piano solos are simply sublime. Tatum’s name must be mentioned in the same breath with the other great arrangers of jazz of his time – Ellington, Strayhorn, Sauter and Evans. For those of us who never heard him in person, the sheer technique and brilliance of his conception makes one wonder how those who sat there and heard that music pouring out of the piano absorbed it. The stories about pianists’ temporary pianistic paralysis after hearing Tatum play for the first time, or the need to escape from the room where he was playing, become all the more believable.
Tracklisting
Danish Radio Big Band
Thomas Fonnesbaek
Michel Petrucciani Trio
Carsten Dahl Golden Ratio Trio
Jacob Christoffersen Trio
Peter Vuust & Aarhus Jazz Orchestra
Johnny Griffin Quartet
Kira Martini
Art Tatum
Art Tatum
Various Artists
Art Tatum, Lionel Hampton, Buddy Rich Trio
Art Tatum
Art Tatum
Art Tatum
Art Tatum
