Art Tatum - Caravan with score 

He did. Jazz is American Classical music.

😅 Wonderful. I've read that both Rachmaninoff and Horowitz considered Tatum to be the greatest living pianist, irrespective of style. As Tatum was practically blind and therefore unable to read music, it would have been difficult for him to have been a classical musician.

I read that he said if this guys does classical music we’re in trouble. 😂

​@@AndrewJanussonlol. Crazy! I've always called Jazz Black American classical music!

@@tpxchallengerTatum could play classical music to a very high degree. He could famously play bachs WTC books 1 and 2 and each prelude and fugue he could transpose to all keys. It’s insane

with practice one could play these notes, but it's the SPEED at which he plays them is almost impossible!!!

Exactly how I feel learning his variation of the Tiger Rag @@brucetowell3432

Best jazz pianist of all time maybe

too many unnecessary notes anyway

Mostly piano players listen to Art. That's a fact. Young so-called aficionados like Monk, not Art, Oscar, Errol, Bill, Keith. It takes awhile for the youngsters to appreciate melody, harmony, and creativeness.

@@MrRickywallace lol "so-called aficionados". ok boomer

@@OS-yg9fr Yeah!

@@OS-yg9fr Try Monk, just right for you, non-Boomer-and then you'll be 😎.

E' la pura verità! ♥

Not a contest, but an artistic presentation-Tatum could play as fast as most, but he had great touch, tone, improvisational, melodic and harmonic artistry, much like Horowitz in classical piano.

Brilliant

Do you mean that, you couldn't understand Art Tatum's art without the medium of piano? What a statement, you make me awe about the awesome mind and dreams that Art Tatum had.

No i think you mean that you need the transcribed notes in the video, to believe what you're hearing. I thought you meant you need the musical instrument to transcribe his dream.

@@thomasbullock4136 Yes, the latter: you need the transcribed notes to believe what you're hearing: those amazing cascades of right-hand runs. It's a figure of speech, of course.

people watch this to get a good idea of how amazingly hard his pieces are, and maybe play them

@@emilycai1581 YES. A literate Musician has to be able to read, but learning JAZZ though transcriptions is back to front. Play your own ideas + work out what YOU did. That way we learn the Theory without becoming a clone of some present hero. Improvisation = variation on a theme..our Musical take on it. JAZZ has its style of phrasing. Emily, never be frightened to play when you hear how it should go. Hear it & play it. All the best to you.

Phineas Newborn, Jr, another wonderful pianist and composer.

Haha!

Nah, B#.

Это явно не про него вы слышали, всё как раз наоборот, он имел большие руки и играл в очень быстром темпе любые терции через октаву от любой ноты, в этом как раз заключался его фирменный стиль левой руки. И он критиковал современных джазистов того времени, что они демонстрируют очень мало работы в левой руке

唯一無二やろ

1. The song was written by Duke Ellington, this is Tatum's arrangement of the song. Art had themes he would play for each song, but every time he played it, he improvised. 2. Art Tatum was blind. I'd venture to say no musician throughout the history of humanity had better pitch than he did. There are many stories you can find in documentaries about how perfect his pitch was. You can find some vids on yt of him improvising to classical pieces. 3. Doubtful. Some classical pianists have paid tribute to Tatum, although they usually lack the swing and improvised feel that Tatum brings. Especially in a piece like this, pure improvisation at 300 bpm.

@@helmut4lyfe Blind? Jeezuz. Had no idea. This was my first vid of him. Will research much more. Thanks for your info!

art tatum did have limited vision in his right eye, and could see out of both (not very well) until he was apparently attacked by some guy in his twenties, and i wouldn't discount any amazing pianist on being able to play a tatum transcription with enough time as one does here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e_562_Y3c6I.html however to improvise to the same level, you'd have to be more than advanced.

Art wrote his own transcriptions-certainly not Duke!🤣🤣🤣

1. Caravan was written in 1936 by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington. For as far as I know , Tatum has never composed a ballad or song or anything else... this is a transcription of the original Tatum improvisation on Caravan's tune... 2. No. Art Tatum was totally blind in his left eye and had a 25% visus in his right eye... so he couldn't have been capable to read classical masterpieces 3. No. As far as today, I have never listened to a pianist who is capable to play stride piano at such speed as Tatum does. The problem is the left hand tecnique: nobody plays with the left hand the things that Art Tatum was used to play so easily , like drinking a glass of water... For example: " Tea for Two" is a classical stride piano piece, but if you listen to Yujia Wang version ( the video is available on YT ) , her left hand has nothing to do with the "stride beat " Tatum had on his left hand when he played Tea for Two... and you have to think that Yujia Wang is one of my favourite classical piano players...

From "Artist Transcriptions Piano" transcribed by Brendt Edstorm, edition Hal Leonard

s/he is called "jazz musician" -- when you slow down, there s no magic, it s just single notes and chords, musicians learn to do this stuff

If im right this transcription is from "Art Tatum Solo Book", transcribed by Brent Edstrom and published by Hal Leonard. And dont wonder, NOT EVERY "jazz musician" is able to do this, it really takes a while and is hard, especially the fast stride parts, also because of the old audio you will probably sturggle to get every note precise.

@@philrademacher yes, but if you know the tune there are only few possibilities, what the left hand notes could be, say if you are in Ab6, but it s challenging with chords

@@wurzelausc exactly, i agree, chords often Sound a little vague, especially at that speed.

Sí. Yo siempre me he preguntado eso también.

Ci sono alcuni virtuosi che eseguono cose difficili e scritte, non improvvisate, quindi sarebbero in grado si suonare anche questo. Uno di loro è Hamelin, che apprezzo molto, ma ce ne sono anche altri. Però eseguire questo brano con la stessa verve di Tatum, credo proprio sia impossibile

@@robertoguerra8658 suonare cose scritte è un conto, improvvisare come Tatum... spero che il buon Dio ce ne mandi un altro come lui.

@@robertobob6574 Ah certo, questo sì. Ma essendo scritta l'improvvisazione di Tatum, già leggerla ed eseguirla sarebbe un bel passo!

Pero con contenido de puro Jazz...........

Penso proprio di sì! Il bello però è che lui le improvvisava queste cose.

@@robertoguerra8658 lui è stato straordinario. Le dichiarazioni di Horowitz e dello stesso Rachmaninov, sono li a dimostrarlo.

@@silvio2869 io se dovessi studiare questa partitura ci metterei un bel po di tempo, nonostante il diploma in pianoforte 😅 Lui è geniale, concordo.