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And on the Seventh Day, when God Rested, he also created Art Tatum! Nobody will ever come close to playing (and thinking) at such lightning speed and complexity. All I can do is smile or laugh when I hear any of his playing.

If the Americans did not impose sanctions and embargoed Cuba after the revolution, Cuba would still be the richest and most beautiful Hispanic island country of the Caribbean. American bigotry and imperialism made Cuba what it is today. And many Cubans outside Cuba don't even know that because of sustained and continuous propaganda by effing Americans.

SICK!!! YEAHH!!!

Vienne no Vienna

😁wonderful! I love Ray Bryant!🎉❤❤❤

THANK YOU! As a German youngster I 'discovered' Byrd's music, already fascinated by the other roots of Blues'n'Boogie players. That was around 1974. Having difficulties in understanding his words I asked my (real American) English teacher at school what 'Ball the walls' could possibly mean? He stared at me: "Where did you pick up this bad slang, boy?!" I learned playing original blues and boogie woogie piano from old records all by myself. I focused on the true originals like Jimmy Yancey (similar left hand ideas like Fess! Did Byrd copy the early 1930s Yancey baseline?!), Montana Taylor, Ammons, Lewis, Johnson etc, followed by stuff from Dr John, Tuts Washington and of course the Prof . The N.O. style is tricky and hard to play, full of wild syncopations and tricky finger acrobatics. Fess' music as well as Dr.John led me eventually to my all time favorite James C. Booker (why not mentioned here?), the true N.O. piano wizard. I am now 64yrs old, but still enjoy sitting at my piano at home, playing Yancey boogies, Longhair "rum-boogies" (my term!) and many of Booker's incredibly complex blues/stride pieces like "True". Still can't read sheet music, but sure can tell what good music has to sound like. This is! The 'Big Chief' really influenced many players, inspired me, 50 years ago! Time to get up to my keyboard, playing a few 'Fess' patterns again, just like Alan is demonstrating here - a good day! Thanks for showing!

Okay, do you understand this video, and what it shows? It’s the eastern Cuba style of the “SON”. That’s not like son and daughter, it’s the name of the rhythm, “EL SON”. Instrumentally or stylistically, it has no relationship to jazz whatsoever; it does, however, borrow some melodic themes from jazz. The instruments are very simple. What is complex is the rhythm, which comes from West Africa, specifically Nigeria. Cuban music, unlike American music, has no defined areas; Each style has his own history and development. I hope you learned something today.

If I still lived in New Orleans, I'd push for a statue of Professor Longhair as the Lee Circle replacement.

It is amazing that this man had such a profound influence on New Orleans music and music in the wider world, but there is so little saved footage of his performances. Thank you so much for compiling this and sharing it with us.

Highlighting the Caribbean aspect is wonderful - thank you @derekjohnson3829 for listing these other musicians as well. I just completed a jazz doc on Native American influence on the birth of jazz th-cam.com/video/J1p-IPVtDko/w-d-xo.html much of my research deals with late 1800s to turn of the century although this film focuses on contemporary artists who draw upon their elder's legacies.

@13'23" " H - as for H o o t i e ...." not 4 Cootie ... Came here to.listen the story how the 1st electric guittaahh was created. DIDN T hear a word about it. Feel like wasted 1 hr of my life. Any reparations ? O er 🇫🇮

Ken...Thanks for bringing Dave's planetary stories to the world-wide web. Zoom dialogues like this are a perfect vehicle to preserving the detail, the humor and gravitas of the music that we all love. Thanks for all you do. And Dave sorry to miss you at Farm Aid this year. I'm hoping Prez will be done this spring. Both Hands.... Henry

Fats Waller, Willy the lion Smith, Roosevelt Sykes, and on and on all said Tatum was better then anyone. Their is a smoothness that makes it all sound effortless, light and easy; when it was any thing but.

Johnny Costa

Art Tatum was The Greatest Talent Of ALL TIME

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I hope you get some kind of cut from the obnoxious and irrelevant commercials that randomly interrupt the video every 10 minutes, by the way. TH-cam will kill itself before much longer at this rate and join the rest of the online garbage dumps.

Thank you for posting this treasure!

reinaldo melian genio de la trompeta!!!

Because he's old.

Art Tatum landed on Earth from another Galaxy.

Look forward to buying this book today!

Some beautiful insights. I think it’s worth mentioning that many of the greats that Sonny came up with were of Caribbean parentage, including: Herbie Nichols, Denzil Best, Art Taylor, Elmo Hope, Walter Bishop Jr., Kenny Drew, Wynton Kelly, Cecil Payne, Ernie Henry, Percy France, Leonard Gaskin, Duke Jordan, Roy Haynes and Gill Coggins, (Gil’s mother only and Walter Bishop’s mother was born in the US though both her parents were Caribbean, thus, all four of his grandparents were Caribbean) and of course both of Sonny’s parents were Islanders. Though often ignored, this heritage deeply influenced what music was being made in New York between 1920 and at least 1959. (Incidentally: Monk grew up in an exclusively, Caribbean community in San Juan Hill and even Bud Powell’s early teacher was William Rawlings: the master educator from Nevis.)

Some beautiful insights. I think it’s worth mentioning that many of the greats that Sonny came up with were of Caribbean parentage, including: Herbie Nichols, Denzil Best, Art Taylor, Elmo Hope, Walter Bishop Jr., Kenny Drew, Wynton Kelly, Cecil Payne, Ernie Henry, Percy France, Leonard Gaskin, Duke Jordan, Roy Haynes and Gill Coggins, (Gil’s mother only)and of course both of Sonny’s parents were Islanders. Though often ignored, this heritage deeply influenced what music was being made in New York in particular, between 1920 and at least 1959. (Incidentally: Monk grew up in an exclusively, Caribbean community in San Juan Hill and even Bud Powell’s early teacher was William Rawlings, the master educator from Nevis.)

Hi. Still waiting for that pdf with the lyrics.😁

Amazing❤

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ asi nuestra musica .aqui .esta todo .( salsa) no existe son cubano ai .aqui estq . La evidence 1920.

Bud had a sound to his playing like no other.

Oscar has far more range, virtuosity and creativity than Tatum. It's wonderful they were able to push themselves to that level.

Aurora...........NOLA..............so many instruments..............so many bands (Royal Roses/Reed Minders/Basher/George/Rory Danger).........so much talent and creativity.........................

it gives me goosebumps just listening to oscar talking about art

How someone can better talking about the spontaneus music ; i absolutly agree with all Cecil said (if C . Taylor made Free-jazz ; Ellington made Free-jazz ; (Ragtime ; Charleston ; Swing or Be-bop are a mind-free in music)

Thank you, Ken, for addressing this new frontier; an unexplored continent akin to the Italian Renaissance. I deeply value the work you do. Keep the coming!

Very powerful.

Muito Booooommmmmmmm.

Tks

Is this in Hi-Fi?

KD was a true master of phrasing!

Beautiful post, variations. Thanks!!

Wow! Where and when was this performance?

Fantastic book. I read it while visiting my Aunt who lives right on the Mississippi.

Masterful

one of the meant for my life. I cannot explain well, way of gear, ..my..my..

Grinning from ear to ear through this entire clip!!!!❤❤

The Velvet Fog was a true match for the Queen of Jazz! Love them both!

I shared this in my community. It made me smile 🙂

Two of the best ever. Thrilling!

I have a number of Ella Fitzgerald CDs and recordings because I love her work and remember seeing her on shows like Ed Sullivan. I completely forgot about Mel Torme!! Thanks for reintroducing him to me. I need to start scouring TH-cam and Apple Music for his tunes.

GAWD, she could scat

Wowza! Killin it.