@@josephgraif2588 wrong. Tatum was black pre-civil rights era. There are many accounts of Tatum playing for much longer than most of the recordings. That's like saying that OP was also better than Tatum because there's video of him playing longer. Costa was heavily influenced, by his own admission, by Art Tatum. Had Tatum lived longer, there would have been much longer recordings of his playing. Some of his best stuff never got recorded and are only acknowledged by others who talked about it like Peterson, Previn, Costa, Waller, etc.
