Release Date: 30 January 2015
Label: Poll Winner Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436542018371
Genres: Jazz
Description
This release contains the complete original LP "More of the Greatest Piano of Them All" (Verve MGV-8347), showcasing the brilliant pianist unaccompanied. This album, which includes original liner notes by André Previn, was part of the marathon sessions jazz producer Norman Granz planned for Tatum, who at that time was seriously ill and neglected by record companies due to stylistic changes in the music industry. He would die on November 5, 1956 at the age of 47.
As a bonus, the complete album Still More of the Greatest Piano Of Them All (Verve MGV-8360), which includes original liner notes by Teddy Wilson, plus one extra track, all recorded during the same sessions.
The Poll Winners label is devoted to the CD reissue of albums that received the maximum 5-star rating in a DownBeat album review. This only rarely happened, and most of the DownBeat albums have become true classics revered by all music lovers. These new editions present the complete original 5-star albums, which are expanded to include interesting bonus albums or tracks by the artist at the peak of their talents.
Tracklisting
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach
Dinah Washington
Art Pepper
Sonny Rollins
Thelonious Monk
Charles Mingus
Sonny Stitt Quartet
Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges
Art Tatum, Lionel Hampton, Buddy Rich Trio
Art Tatum
Art Tatum
Art Tatum
Art Tatum
Art Tatum
Art Tatum
