😅 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.
@@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
The source is a 9/11/40 radio broadcast of a program called "California Melodies." 24 tracks from this weekly program, including Caravan, were issued in 1994 on Memphis Archives CD, catalog #MA7007. The sources were 16-inch pressings held by Mrs. David Rose.
If two way different if not opposite pianists such as Oscar Peterson and Thelonious Monk ever had any inspiration, that one was Art Tatum, and that's rather telling.
Quand je vois la partoch qui retranscrit son impro et entend son tempo...Complètement hallucinant. Car non seulement c’est inhumain techniquement mais c’est surtout beau, très beau!
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.
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.
Oh the irony of there being an advert before this video for some hack saying that they can teach you 100 songs on the piano in one week. This would take a 100 lifetimes
Great transcription. Good when you HEAR what he's playing & want to educate your ear. Try it reading & you'll never get it. This is very useful for analysis, but HEAR it first. This = a valuable lesson. Thank you.
@@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.
Let someone hear Tatum once, and they gave a rather lukewarm response. I mentioned that he was the most monstrous stride player ever & they responded "THAT EAS STRIDE!? 🤯" 🤣 Tatum & Phineas Newborn, Jr. Are my absolute piano idols.
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.
Безусловно великий музыкант. Насколько мне известно, у него были маленькие ладони с короткими пальцами, не позволявшие брать большие интервалы. Тем удивительнее слышать такое исполнение.
Asking any pianists: Here we have an amazing show of playing skill plus an amazing score. Please tell me -- 1. Was this score actually written BY Duke Ellington and did Art Tatum "learn" to play it, or was it scored note by note by Tatum or someone else AFTER Tatum improv'ed it? 2. Could Art Tatum read and play very difficult classical masterpieces? 3. Would an advanced classical pianist be able to learn and play such a piece?
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.
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: th-cam.com/video/e_562_Y3c6I/w-d-xo.html however to improvise to the same level, you'd have to be more than advanced.
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...
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
That's the same way I'd have played it.( if I were an almost blind black piano genius, suffering accute and hostile racism constantly, with whatever eyes to see harm to your fellow black folk in the 30s and 40s.🤔👀😇👌be safe.
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
Art Tatum is proof there is a God. He is not a God like Fats Waller said. But his genius sure points to God's existence. Talent and art like Art's can not be the result of accident. Art is such a treat to listen to every day. I can't blame 0scer Peterson for his response to first hearing Art, which was to quit the piano for a short while because he knew he couldn't top him.
Ain’t no “South African” desert … but there exists the Kalahari and Karoo in parts of South Africa. The Music is 💯 gold. Wonderful soft base, the opposite technique of the jumping left hand of the Fire Dance.
Grande Tatum, però per chi frequenta cose tipo Busoni, Godowsky, Sorabji,Alkan, etc etc etc, uno spartito del genere risulta davvero semplice semplice semplice.
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They say when Rachmaninoff heard him play he stated thank God he doesent play classical music
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
Hats off to the transcriber.
Indeed 😅
The source is a 9/11/40 radio broadcast of a program called "California Melodies." 24 tracks from this weekly program, including Caravan, were issued in 1994 on Memphis Archives CD, catalog #MA7007. The sources were 16-inch pressings held by Mrs. David Rose.
Have mercy! Only Tatum. His runs..........the word impeccable comes to mind.
The G.O.A.T. of the jazz piano. I couldn't play this if I were given 1,000 years to learn it.
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
Out of this world. Beyond words. Thank you.
If two way different if not opposite pianists such as Oscar Peterson and Thelonious Monk ever had any inspiration, that one was Art Tatum, and that's rather telling.
❤thanks for musicians like him.
Very impressed you transcribed this. Very tricky rhythmic figures to notate, congrats!
Pure, unadulterated genius. Mind-boggling. Thank you.
Quand je vois la partoch qui retranscrit son impro et entend son tempo...Complètement hallucinant. Car non seulement c’est inhumain techniquement mais c’est surtout beau, très beau!
Art was indeed one of the best.
I´m speechless, simply the best piano player of all time...
Best jazz pianist of all time maybe
You need the notes to believe your ears. (I *think* I know what I mean! ). Magnificente!
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.
This is insane!
I like Tatum’s earliest stuff the best 😁
It's a shame more people haven't listened to this.
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 😎.
grazie! inarrivabile! fantastic!
Oh the irony of there being an advert before this video for some hack saying that they can teach you 100 songs on the piano in one week. This would take a 100 lifetimes
Great transcription. Good when you HEAR what he's playing & want to educate your ear. Try it reading & you'll never get it. This is very useful for analysis, but HEAR it first. This = a valuable lesson. Thank you.
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.
OH My WORD!!!!....Mindboggling GREATNESS!!!
Ogni volta penso che Dio ha fatto un incommensurabile dono a quest uomo... 😍
E' la pura verità! ♥
Thank Mr. Tatum for this version ❤❤❤
Let someone hear Tatum once, and they gave a rather lukewarm response. I mentioned that he was the most monstrous stride player ever & they responded "THAT EAS STRIDE!? 🤯" 🤣 Tatum & Phineas Newborn, Jr. Are my absolute piano idols.
Phineas Newborn, Jr, another wonderful pianist and composer.
Sounds like cziffra and tatum had an argument and tatum won lol
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
100% awesome
this is just hard to believe!
Ah yes, my favorite key to play in: Fb
Haha!
Nah, B#.
Слова не Эллингтон написал,а Мерсер и музыку Тизол сочинил. Эллингтон часть В сочинил.
Безусловно великий музыкант. Насколько мне известно, у него были маленькие ладони с короткими пальцами, не позволявшие брать большие интервалы. Тем удивительнее слышать такое исполнение.
1:56 seriously how is it possible to do that left hand
The best.
As the rapper said “Ya can’t touch this”
What book does the score come from?
From "Artist Transcriptions Piano" transcribed by Brendt Edstorm, edition Hal Leonard
Is this transcribed by a computer?
THANK YOU. MEDICINE GOOD.
Amazing
Asking any pianists:
Here we have an amazing show of playing skill plus an amazing score. Please tell me --
1. Was this score actually written BY Duke Ellington and did Art Tatum "learn" to play it, or was it scored note by note by Tatum or someone else AFTER Tatum improv'ed it?
2. Could Art Tatum read and play very difficult classical masterpieces?
3. Would an advanced classical pianist be able to learn and play such a piece?
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: th-cam.com/video/e_562_Y3c6I/w-d-xo.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...
Yeah, but can he put a Fruit Pastille in his mouth without chewing it? That's what I want to know.
Sí. Yo siempre me he preguntado eso también.
Holy shit!
holy cow!
Holy cow. !!!
Michel Petrucciani .....real genius
Who is the genius that transcribed this?
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.
1940 and light years ahead of anyone.
I can see where Oscar Peterson got some inspiration.
凄い、超絶技巧のキャラバン…。
唯一無二やろ
They say he drank a case of beer daily. What if he had been sober?
That's the same way I'd have played it.( if I were an almost blind black piano genius, suffering accute and hostile racism constantly, with whatever eyes to see harm to your fellow black folk in the 30s and 40s.🤔👀😇👌be safe.
오스카피터슨이 앞에서 피아노 안칠만하다...진짜...
Jimmy the Lyon and Fats Waller called him God , and Oscar Peterson on first hearing was convinced it was two piano players
Scary
Mi domando oggi quanti sarebbero capaci di suonare così...
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!
As Oscar Peterson said how can you ignore death
They have that , but then... there is Kent
Art Tatum is proof there is a God.
He is not a God like Fats Waller said.
But his genius sure points to God's existence.
Talent and art like Art's can not be the result of accident.
Art is such a treat to listen to every day.
I can't blame 0scer Peterson for his response to first hearing Art, which was to quit the piano for a short while because he knew he couldn't top him.
So what brand of player piano is this?
Good grief!
Ain’t no “South African” desert … but there exists the Kalahari and Karoo in parts of South Africa. The Music is 💯 gold. Wonderful soft base, the opposite technique of the jumping left hand of the Fire Dance.
aliens exist. this is fuckign impossible to playng. is not understable
1:55 - what in the actual f*ck is that even
This is the opposite of God: it exists but you don't believe it does
Grande Tatum, però per chi frequenta cose tipo Busoni, Godowsky, Sorabji,Alkan, etc etc etc, uno spartito del genere risulta davvero semplice semplice semplice.
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.