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| The Best of the Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces |
| Art Tatum |
első megjelenés éve: 1956
72 perc |
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| (2006)
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CD |
| 3.228 Ft
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| 1. | Perdido
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| 2. | Memories of You
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| 3. | You Took Advantage of Me
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| 4. | All the Things You Are
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| 5. | Body and Soul
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| 6. | Under a Blanket of Blue
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| 7. | The Moon Is Low
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| 8. | Just One of Those Things
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| 9. | Street of Dreams
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| 10. | Somebody Loves Me
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| 11. | My Ideal
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| 12. | Deep Night
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Jazz / Swing; Stride; Boogie-Woogie
Recorded: Jun 25, 1954-Sep 11, 1956, Radio Recorders and Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, California
Art Tatum - piano
Roy Elridge - trumpet
Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet
Buddy DeFranco - clarinet
Lionel Hampton - vibraphone
Barney Kessel - guitar
Red Callender - bass
John Simmons - bass
Alvin Stoller - drums
Bill Douglas - drums
Buddy Rich - drums
Louis Bellson - drums
Jo Jones - drums
A rich and rewarding core sample, selected from one of Norman Granz's deepest gold mines. The full set of Tatum ensemble master takes was released on eight vinyl records in 1975, appearing with alternate takes as a box of seven compact discs in 1990. Since then, each separate session has been issued on a single, affordable CD. With the release of this best-of, the only remaining untried reissue format stratagem could almost be conducted according to the laws of chance. If someone were to divide up the existing 59 master takes (saving the alternate takes for a "Best of the Tatum Alternates" compilation), the entire body of work could be issued as a numbered best-of series, the titles carefully shuffled at random. But each volume would possibly still omit something that could be considered essential. This is the insoluble problem with anything calling itself a best-of. Fortunately, the Tatum group recordings produced by Norman Granz during the years 1954, 1955, and 1956 actually deserve the word "masterpieces." While Tatum himself is honored as one of the very most gifted and influential of all jazz musicians, without exception every musician who participated in these sessions was adept, inspired, and, in many cases, masterful. (There are those who would suggest that the Art Tatum/Ben Webster date could stand by itself as the best of the group masterpieces.) Here, for once, is a package worthy of its title. A bit of the best of some of the very best jazz ever recorded.
---arwulf arwulf, AMG
Includes liner notes by Scott Yanow.
Art Tatum
Active Decades: '20s, '30s, '40s and '50s
Born: Oct 13, 1909 in Toledo, OH
Died: Nov 05, 1956 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Boogie-Woogie, Swing, Stride
Art Tatum was among the most extraordinary of all jazz musicians, a pianist with wondrous technique who could not only play ridiculously rapid lines with both hands (his 1933 solo version of "Tiger Rag" sounds as if there were three pianists jamming together) but was harmonically 30 years ahead of his time; all pianists have to deal to a certain extent with Tatum's innovations in order to be taken seriously. Able to play stride, swing, and boogie-woogie with speed and complexity that could only previously be imagined, Tatum's quick reflexes and boundless imagination kept his improvisations filled with fresh (and sometimes futuristic) ideas that put him way ahead of his contemporaries.
Born nearly blind, Tatum gained some formal piano training at the Toledo School of Music but was largely self-taught. Although influenced a bit by Fats Waller and the semi-classical pianists of the 1920s, there is really no explanation for where Tatum gained his inspiration and ideas from. He first played professionally in Toledo in the mid-'20s and had a radio show during 1929-1930. In 1932 Tatum traveled with singer Adelaide Hall to New York and made his recording debut accompanying Hall (as one of two pianists). But for those who had never heard him in person, it was his solos of 1933 (including "Tiger Rag") that announced the arrival of a truly major talent. In the 1930s, Tatum spent periods working in Cleveland, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and (in 1938) England. Although he led a popular trio with guitarist Tiny Grimes (later Everett Barksdale) and bassist Slam Stewart in the mid-'40s, Tatum spent most of his life as a solo pianist who could always scare the competition. Some observers criticized him for having too much technique (is such a thing possible?), working out and then keeping the same arrangements for particular songs, and for using too many notes, but those minor reservations pale when compared to Tatum's reworkings of such tunes as "Yesterdays," "Begin the Beguine," and even "Humoresque." Although he was not a composer, Tatum's rearrangements of standards made even warhorses sound like new compositions.
Art Tatum, who recorded for Decca throughout the 1930s and Capitol in the late '40s, starred at the Esquire Metropolitan Opera House concert of 1944 and appeared briefly in his only film in 1947, The Fabulous Dorseys (leading a jam session on a heated blues). He recorded extensively for Norman Granz near the end of his life in the 1950s, both solo and with all-star groups; all of the music has been reissued by Pablo on a six-CD box set. His premature death from uremia has not resulted in any loss of fame, for Art Tatum's recordings still have the ability to scare modern pianists.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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