Art Tatum - The best of [HQ] 

I thought Horowitz said that

He died the year I was born, 1956 and was blind

Tiny Grimes said he never saw Tatum practice also.

@@VicenteMReyes-vs9nh go back under the bridge, troll! This MAGICK is beyond your PEA BRAIN! FUCK YOU! Go do your chores! Your mommies calling! Remember to leave your basement once and awhile and get sun! FUCK face!

@@GioBardZero Rachmaninoff and Horowitz are classical not jazz. But Tatum could probably play Rachmaninoff. What do you mean by cry?

@@historyoflol7185 looks like the comment I was replying to is deleted. Gonna delete mine too but here's the Horowitz story: Horowitz was very impressed by Tatum's playing and would see him play regularly at a club in Harlem. He transcribed Tatum's recording of "Tea for Two" and it took him months to learn to play it at tempo. After learning it, Horowitz played it for Tatum. Tatum was impressed but then proceeded to play a version that was way crazier. Horowitz was flabbergasted and asked "when did you write this new arrangement?" Tatum replied that he didn't write it but improvised it on the spot. Some accounts say that this made Horowitz cry. Whether that's true or not, Horowitz is quoted saying that he never played jazz in public after that and also that he would retire if Tatum seriously got into playing classical music. Rachmaninoff is also quoted saying that Tatum is the best pianist in any genre and would give classical players a run for their money if he learned to play that style.

Facts. Hearing stuff like this will get it in my head but to physically translate this to your instrument and have the technique and knowledge to play this, Incredible

It feels amazing, im no where near this man, but it feels good to play the way you described(from my experience)

and Keith Jarrett :=)

bruh, he died 63+ years ago 💀 💀 💀 💀

@@sirchoppy1810 No, he will not die - as long as his memory lives on in people, in music lovers...

Dude he won't die

Jazz is 4th tier or even 5th tier piano playing. It is like the lieder versus hip-hop.

Now we have modern jazz players like Hiromi who infuse creativity with a higher level of technical intricacy than the old greats ever did. I can hear a lot of Tatum in Hiromi's sound. But she has refined it and made it her own.

Yes that's a good description. I feel that way about piano, Mozart, Beethoven and others.

They're all geniuses, History.

Nice work slick

👍😠👍🏖☕🎶hey, how you know all these things...Cool stuff.

muchas gracias...

Your a God sent for revealing these tracks when the channel only said in writing the best of Art Tattom., thanks so much these lost artists from the era less appreciated is gold when listening to.

😢🤜🤛

Absolutly

​@@alexishernandez9310 good life !

That takes both spectacularly sensitive hearing and enormous experience with beer.

Love it!!

@@mchanoff lol! cute!

That's a Heck of a Compliment. Even Daredevil would be Jealous because He can't do it!

Vince: He had perfect and relative pitch. So do I. It drove my musician father nuts, I was always correcting him from another room... lol!

Probably??

@@TheHagheid Yes, probably

@@Biribeau - His effortless immersion! As penance I've just been listening to Keith Squealing Jarrett, so sliding from ART to Arty Farty. Next we have Methenys' - Zero Tolerance For Silence.

Not sure what "history" has to do anything. All you need is his music to know how great he is.

tu lo has dicho

Relajante y muy fácil de escuchar!

I'm not a big fan of Breathing but Air is one of my favorites

@@joshgehman232 So do not let it get out of any opening.

Yea it’s a shame my generation listens to genres that glorify drug use and sex, it’s pretty annoying seeing people around me mindlessly doing things and dressing up in clothes that make them look like complete imbeciles. Most people my age are unfortunately zombies controlled by social media and status. O well

@@KirbySwegso true smh

@@KirbySweg lmao music has been about drugs and sex for decades genius.

Not to mention autocorrect, so new rock, country and rap "artists" don't even have to really even hit the notes, have talent, or stay on beat.

Pft dude stop, you can't compare technologies... Like your experience listening to your phone speaker is any different from mine using headphones pft cmon

Tiger Rag is my fav! Can’t believe my ears ❤️🔥🔥🔥

El unico pianista que podia pararse al lado de Art Tatum era Oscar Peterson, el cual quizas haya sido uno de los pianistas mas importantes en las epoca desde 2 decadas ante de su muerte y mucho antes.

No olvides al genio de Oscar Peterson que es insuperable

Allen, all the songs are listed. Tap/click on "...more" under the name of this video, just below Art Tatum's picture. See it? . ;)

He was blind in his left eye, weak in the other, but he always memorized the stage, walked on knowing what was around him, and sat with his bad eye away from the audience's side so they wouldn't know.

Surely Clifford Brown also..

@@johntravena119 agreed, but many of the greats were unreal virtuosos

@@Hubtones1 Clifford Brown had great compositional logic in his solos - wasn’t a virtuoso only. Also, his ballads are soulful.

Statements like that will also stir up controversy because of all the other great artists it excludes...like Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Benny Goodman, etc. But in my mind, Berkowitz's assertion is spot on. The real controversy comes from the fact that to easily throw around words like "genius" and "virtuoso" to the point that they're applied to every music fan's favorite musician. The thing people fail to realize is there's a big difference between being a "genius" (like Tatum, Armstrong, and Parker) and being a "great" player. The fact that these "geniuses" of jazz were so highly revered by other "great" musicians and aficionados that they were considered technically and artistically untouchable and in a class beyond that of mere mortals should be enough to give one an understanding of the difference between "genius" and "great" in this case. When a man as enormously talented as Oscar Peterson would tell everybody all his life that the one man he worships as his "piano god" and listened to religiously everyday of his life was his mentor, Art Tatum, then you know there had to be something very special about Tatum that separated him even from prodigious talents like OP. When Peterson says there is no one who could play a piano like Tatum, and himself refers to Tatum as the greatest master of the keyboard - a man with a mastery that intimidated even a prodigy like Peterson so much it paralyzed him - then you know that Tatum stood head and shoulders above every professional piano player of his era...in both classical and jazz, according to Peterson. I doubt there's a serious jazz pianist in the world who would dare dispute Peterson.

@@ltravail Monk. Maybe not in technique, though Monk's technique is incredible in his own right. Monk's creativity and ingenuity put him above Tatum imho. I don't think anyone can logically deny the fact that Art Tatum is without a doubt the greatest technical player the instrument has ever seen, but there's more to being phenomenal than technique.

There was no health care for black people.