@@billmavin1998 Peterson was extremely intimidated by Tatum, who had way more experience and was half-blind. The fastest jazz artist of all time is Art tatum. If you have heard Song of the Vagabonds by Art Tatum, you will be amazed at the speed of his fingers. th-cam.com/video/rH4gMdD8JwQ/w-d-xo.html
@@solomon525 Thanks for that link to "Song of the Vagabonds," Solomon. That was mind-blowing. I now see why Count Basie, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles, and so many other musicians (not simply pianists) revered Art Tatum. The recurring theme was that Mr. Tatum was not only playing at an entirely different level, but that he was almost supernatural in his musical understanding and abilities.
Les Paul began his musical career as a pianist. But when he heard Art Tatum; he never played piano again. But went on to become one of the greatest guitarists of all time!
You just have to watch and smile. Nobody has ever played jazz piano this great, and nobody ever will. You could practice 12 hrs. a day for a lifetime and not play like this. I think Art Tatum was God's gift to the piano!
I REALLY wish there was more video footage of Art Tatum. I absolutely cherish the few that exist and have watched all of them so many times that it would scare me to hear the actual number. His recordings are gold, and I am thankful he lived in a time when his godly playing was preserved for us all to hear. Rest in Peace Art, you were truly one of a kind.
And to think that people talked and ignored the music during his performance. They didn't appreciate they were some of the few that ever got to see this legendary pianist in person. My Dad actually got to see him perform and met him in a small club just after the war. He had the fastest fingers in the world on that piano.
Mick Soiseth It was said that if Tatum had gone on the classical concert platform ,he would have put the frighteners up a lot of people. Yep . Ya gotta put up with folks talking while your playing. The bigger the audience, the quieter they are! Most people don't actually LIKE music. They just like the noise it it makes!
My father saw him in a San Francisco Club in the mid 1930s. Two people started talking while he was playing, and he asked them to stop talking or leave.
It’s not so much that people didn’t appreciate what he was doing, but jazz music and jazz clubs back then were generally more sociable. And look closely. This is not a nightclub appearance. It’s supposed to be background for a movie. It’s too bad there’s no explanation provided of the source material or personnel.
@@icecreamforcrowhurst Yeah I believe that also, but Tatumn is more Virtuosic musically, so Virtuoso infact that people think his Jazz is strange sometimes with his sudden mind switching in his pieces.
It was speculated that Tatum had classical training, but if that were that case, he was very tight-lipped about it. At any rate, several of his contemporaries felt that he could have been an equally great classical pianist as he was as a jazz/stride artist.
Artie Shaw had the right idea. He kept a roll of banknotes in his coat pocket. During breaks he would hand noisy people back their entry fees and ask them to leave.
There was a Jazz supper club on Sunset & Silver Lake Blvd in LA 'The Red Chimney' booking the best Jazz musicians for yrs but the patrons, many were So damn indifferent to the musicians & Noisy & Restaurant Mgt didn't do Jack
Thanks for posting. Great to see as well as hear the extraordinary talent that was Art Tatum. The "Yesterdays" at the end is just incredible. And to think he only had about 25% vision in one eye. Another jazz great who died far too young.
He surely inspired many generations with his tremendous mastery. But can you imagine the number of players who just shook their heads quit after hearing him?
His ideas and musical thoughts so effortlessly comes out but they are so perfect and coherent he is pure perfection like a piano hendrix / mozart constantly pouring out pure piano ideas by the split second such correct ideas idk how he got to that level of mental ability
Just because he was caught on film and moving and almost looking at me from time to time, I am utterly intimidated. This was the man who brought all of New York's top pianists to their knees.
i call Franz List he is literally the first popstar/rockstar on planet earth in a time without radio tv just everybody that listen too him once have to tell it everybody they know and he got the hands of a giant a lot of his pieces cant be performt 100% correct by the majority of pianists because of that
Charles Duckett Jr. Y'know I thought the same thing but then a similar thing happened at 3:38 which made me think that maybe it's just a glitch in the audio recording.
@@thepianojuggler If you listen real close, he modulates down to Bb from B at the end of the intro; it's so sublime, you really can miss it altogether. Incidentally, it reminds me of those old analog conversions where the tune starts in one key, but ends at least a half step away due to the irregular phonograph speed. I secretly wonder if Tatum, in all his glory, wasn't imitating the unpredictable speed of the old turntables. I once worked with a pianist who would play The Entertainer, and he would randomly modulate even in the middle of beats to imitate the wonky playback.
and at 3:37, when his ascending right hand run should hit an "F" concert (the 5th in Bb), it warbles up to an F#... so, it's really anybody's guess! But seriously, he went up a half step to screw with his buddies...
Bro I just heard it, he does it twice, starts in B, Goes to Bb, then briefly does it in A. Plus the entire melody is done with just the right hand. Ive been practicing this for 3 days but haven't gotten past 4 minutes in the video.
Dick Hyman saw and heard Art Tatum play several times in person and has some fingerings for some of Tatum's runs in some of his method books for jazz piano. Many of those runs are only fingered with the first two or three fingers on the right hand (thumb and forefinger, with or without the middle finger).
@@andrewbarrett1537 How does that work? Does he just tap them lightly and then glide his hand further left instead of really pressing them? That would explain why his sound is so tinkly and fluffy. I'd really love to know.
Tatum was super good at the piano. Ahmaj says , one time he play a whole song and tatum listen, when he finish tatum got close to him and said "if you would of play it with one hand then you would of got my attention. Then tatum play the whole song with one hand (I believe his left hand ) Tatum was a super pianist. One time listen and used one hand to play at a genius level ! Amazing. Ahmaj jamal says there is no one till this day that can play as much piano like Tatum ! I don't know bit he says there is no one close enough! Horrowitz love tatum a lot , tatum was his favorite pianist !
They were really determined to transcribe what he was playing....lol. They had it from the same short piece filmed from several different angles over and over. Go Art Tatum!! Killin' it!!
But seriously Peterson is an equal of Tatum. Maybe not at the time but at some point Peterson reached Tatum’s level. The recordings are there to prove it.
Tatum and Oscar Peterson are considered the 2 most talented pianists of all time, complete mastery of their instrument, genius is a gross understatement.
They are both splendid but there's a lot of others that could play just as good, if not better. Bud powell was capable of everything from stride to bop. Earl hines was a pioneer I think, doing things in the 20s that they were doing in the 40s and 50z. Herman chittison is very forgotten, and was right up there in styling with Tatum and Peterson, though much more of a stride sound in most records. Though I love Tatum, I can only listen to so much of him for some reason. No disrespect at all intended to him.
@@SugarBearMosher “Many who could play just as good, if not better”? You just embarrassed yourself with that one, hoss. Ripped your drawers in front of all the people.
I just love Art isn't even looking at the keyboard, he's looking at the time on the wall, discussing major events in the middle east with the crowd, reading the newspaper, meanwhile, his hands just keep playing the most amazing piano ever. Yes, I know he was basically blind, which makes all of it even more amazing.
Art Tatum was almost completely blind, he had only 25% of his right eye sight and nothing of his left. He could not read sheet music in real time and he could not see the whole piano keyboard, only a few keys in a grey mist.
The video of Yesterdays is in the wrong key. It's been sped up. You can see he's in D minor, but the sound is in Eb minor, i.e. it's higher and (I guess) faster. I didn't measure, but sounds like about a semitone sharp, which would be about 6% faster that it actually was. It's super-weird for me (with perfect pitch) to hear black notes whenever he plays white ones, and vice versa! The very first note of the melody he hits an A with his little finger and out comes a Bb.
Bizarre that people are commenting here that folks in the bar are ignoring the music... huh? It's clearly a scene being filmed at the club - you can clearly hear a guy repeat 'go ahead please' and 'cut' before and after takes, and the patrons clearly wouldn't be encouraged to gawp at the performers but rather to act naturally...
@@Cadence24 That's what the cameraman or director says to Art Tatum to signal him to start playing, probably since he couldn't really see a visual cue to start.
They had to bring him and the 🎹 in with a Forklift bc he is attached to it the way he played they had to be inseparable GOD Blessed Art Tatum " PERSONALLY!!!!!"
Art performed in his early years at the "Tabernilla" in Toledo Ohio area . This was in prohibition years and a rather questionable styled location but the foundation of jazz greats of the era. That club has been leveled and now houses condos where we presently live. Great memories of great jazz greats with Toledo Ohio as their beginning.
ah yes, a time where bread costs a nickel and coke still had coke in it. The golden era is over as far as culture is concerned. Luckily some of that gold was captured for us in the dark ages.
“Blacks see the content of their lives being elevated into art. They don’t always know that it’s possible, and it’s important for them to know that”. August Wilson
I think that he hated publicity.. Anecdotes suggest that recorders were quietly slipped under pianos and behind curtains. It was said that had he gone to the Concert Platform, he would have worried a good few people.
Not only that, apparently George Gershwin and even Vladimir Horowitz plus a few others snuck around a couple of late night clubs in NY to check this Tatum out and were definitely left in awe.
@@tropicvibe Horowitz eventually met Tatum. He played his awesome concert piece The Stars and Stripes and and Tatum played a version of Tea for Two. Horowitz stopped him and said "Amazing! How long did it take to arrange and memorise all that?" Tatum.."I just did it as I was playing...! Horowitz was suitably amazed.
Kids have you heard the stuff folks are fobbing you off with now these days! My daddy is way bigger than your daddy (-: Art Tatum king of the keys. Makes me smile every time, the music is so animated. Thanks for sharing.
People are talking and drinking and laughing and not even paying attention. Idiots. Sitting in the presence of such greatness and wasting the opportunity!
Oscar Peterson said that Art Tatum was the greatest two pianists he ever heard.
YEP Mr Peterson loved Art and Art loved him
It’ so...
@@billmavin1998 Peterson was extremely intimidated by Tatum, who had way more experience and was half-blind. The fastest jazz artist of all time is Art tatum.
If you have heard Song of the Vagabonds by Art Tatum, you will be amazed at the speed of his fingers.
th-cam.com/video/rH4gMdD8JwQ/w-d-xo.html
@@solomon525 Thanks for that link to "Song of the Vagabonds," Solomon. That was mind-blowing. I now see why Count Basie, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles, and so many other musicians (not simply pianists) revered Art Tatum. The recurring theme was that Mr. Tatum was not only playing at an entirely different level, but that he was almost supernatural in his musical understanding and abilities.
Art is surely the greatest
Les Paul began his musical career as a pianist. But when he heard Art Tatum; he never played piano again. But went on to become one of the greatest guitarists of all time!
Cosmic ironic causailty!!
maybe he just sucked at piano
Les Paul? Get real.
Oskar Peterson quit for about three months upon hearing art Tatum !
You just have to watch and smile. Nobody has ever played jazz piano this great, and nobody ever will. You could practice 12 hrs. a day for a lifetime and not play like this. I think Art Tatum was God's gift to the piano!
he was an early great no doubt, but many have indeed caught up with him since
I REALLY wish there was more video footage of Art Tatum. I absolutely cherish the few that exist and have watched all of them so many times that it would scare me to hear the actual number.
His recordings are gold, and I am thankful he lived in a time when his godly playing was preserved for us all to hear. Rest in Peace Art, you were truly one of a kind.
there were but those fuckers on tv deleted it
for some limited storage or something... what is more rare than art tatum playing? Chopin maybe lol
@@agamaz5650 what !!?🙀 Dammn
And to think that people talked and ignored the music during his performance. They didn't appreciate they were some of the few that ever got to see this legendary pianist in person. My Dad actually got to see him perform and met him in a small club just after the war. He had the fastest fingers in the world on that piano.
“I finished the concerto tonight...”
Yes, but a genius is playing right now!!!
Mick Soiseth
It was said that if Tatum had gone on the classical concert platform ,he would have put the frighteners up a lot of people.
Yep . Ya gotta put up with folks talking while your playing.
The bigger the audience, the quieter they are!
Most people don't actually LIKE music. They just like the noise it it makes!
My father saw him in a San Francisco Club in the mid 1930s. Two people started talking while he was playing, and he asked them to stop talking or leave.
most ppl cant see genius if he is breathing in their face
It’s not so much that people didn’t appreciate what he was doing, but jazz music and jazz clubs back then were generally more sociable.
And look closely. This is not a nightclub appearance.
It’s supposed to be background for a movie.
It’s too bad there’s no explanation provided of the source material or personnel.
Classical pianists from Rachmaninov and Horowitz to present day stars are in awe him.
Art Tatum had the most Flawless Piano Technique in Recorded Piano History!…………Tatum, Horowitz and Rachmaninoff were the GOLD STANDARD!!!!!
Gotta put Oscar Peterson on that list ‘cause he was an equal of Tatum. True!
@@icecreamforcrowhurst Yeah I believe that also, but Tatumn is more Virtuosic musically, so Virtuoso infact that people think his Jazz is strange sometimes with his sudden mind switching in his pieces.
I’d add Oscar Peterson for sure
Emmet Cohen’s technique from his playing modern classical, is pretty darn good, and he’s still young
@@icecreamforcrowhurst OP said he learned lot from Tatum, but that he was unsurpassable.
"When you listened Art, it seems like two person playing the piano, you just couldnt believe what you hearing man" Ray Charles.
Thank God For This Rare Archival Footage of This Phenomenal Jazz Master !!!....
THEY'RE PIANO PLAYERS AND THERE IS ART TATUM. THE ABSOLUTE GOD OF PIANO
I'm so grateful that I could see Art playing because I don't think I'd have believed that was possible on the piano without seeing....x
Art Tatum’s fingers glide over the piano keys like nobody else’s. He is the best piano player I have ever heard. 🥰🌻
Is just unbelievable for someone to play like this.
Not to mention as a legally blind guy!
It was speculated that Tatum had classical training, but if that were that case, he was very tight-lipped about it. At any rate, several of his contemporaries felt that he could have been an equally great classical pianist as he was as a jazz/stride artist.
He is the greatest of all times nobody could play like him. A God given talent, gifted from birth, he didn't even need his eyes to play.
@@stevestone7085 Totally blind in one eye and only 20 percent vision on the other.
@@lisamuse574Vladimir Horowitz said that he, Art was the best pianist he ever saw.. So I read somewhere long time ago.
Thank you! *Art Tatum - October 13, 1909 - November 5, 1956* - Shared on Google+, Oct. 13, 2018
Jazz musicians back then had so much class. And this man... magic powers.
Artie Shaw had the right idea. He kept a roll of banknotes in his coat pocket. During breaks he would hand noisy people back their entry fees and ask them to leave.
There was a Jazz supper club on Sunset & Silver Lake Blvd in LA 'The Red Chimney' booking the best Jazz musicians for yrs but the patrons, many were So damn indifferent to the musicians & Noisy & Restaurant Mgt didn't do Jack
Pretty class move to 😊
Louis Armstrong was alleged to only play with you if you were down smoking. The herbal remedies
Also he endorsed laxative use for weight loss
His smile at the end made me smile back at my screen
Thanks for posting. Great to see as well as hear the extraordinary talent that was Art Tatum. The "Yesterdays" at the end is just incredible. And to think he only had about 25% vision in one eye. Another jazz great who died far too young.
Autumn Leaves I wonder if there’s more footage somewhere from the same “Yesterdays” performance...
That solo at the end is just insane. I never heard piano sound like that, he went prog on that cut!
Tatum - one of Thee, if not Thee greatest Jazz pianist Ever.
For me Earl Hines, Tatum's' teacher' [according to Tatum], was less 'flash' but even greater: go see Hines on Vimeo @ vimeo.com/58414566
MrTolesi Earl Hines influenced Nat Cole too.
Greatest***
obviously the best
That's nonsense... Sun ra was the greatest pianist ever
One can't get any better than this.😊Art Tatum
now im beginning to cry because of the beauty and joy Art expresses in himself through the piano and music.
I only play the piano, but tonight God is on my laptop screen
He surely inspired many generations with his tremendous mastery. But can you imagine the number of players who just shook their heads quit after hearing him?
@@ryneagheilim9782 Something like that in Maurice Waller's book about his dad.
@@tranquilitybase2351 It included Les Paul. But he just did something else instead.
The man was in a different league. Even Oscar Petersen said that his talent was intimidating..
Tatum is the king of piano. He was so good.
I envy those people beside him, seeing him play, OMG!!!
OMFG.
THIS is why life is worth living
I’m down today. Your comment makes me feel good, and puts things in perspective, so for that, I say thank you ❤
Mr. Art Tatum was truly gifted. Also, that is Mr. Ray Bauduc who was a fabulous drummer.
His ideas and musical thoughts so effortlessly comes out but they are so perfect and coherent he is pure perfection like a piano hendrix / mozart constantly pouring out pure piano ideas by the split second such correct ideas idk how he got to that level of mental ability
Like a piano art Tatum
How lucky to be able to sit next to and hear such a genius ! Wow !
Just because he was caught on film and moving and almost looking at me from time to time, I am utterly intimidated. This was the man who brought all of New York's top pianists to their knees.
“looking at” you?
He was blind
@@banfield1368 He wasn't completely blind.
The last piece is perfect jazz. Thank you 👍
breathtaking talent, beautiful artistic hands
He is so good, that he frightens me.....
The late Oscar Peterson found out the hard way...Art Tatum was beyond this World..
Les Paul did too. He wanted to be a pianist till he heard Art Tatum play.
@@RockSpoon123 We owe the electric guitar to Art.
@@Photologistic We do! Without his insane technique, we wouldn't have the Les Paul guitar!
maybe the greatest talent on piano of all time.
maybe chopin bro, but yeah probably greatest talent on video
@@agamaz5650 Eldar Djangirov isn't bad either
@@pukulu haha
He was so fast they named a time signature for him called the Tatum
i call Franz List he is literally the first popstar/rockstar on planet earth in a time without radio tv just everybody that listen too him once have to tell it everybody they know
and he got the hands of a giant a lot of his pieces cant be performt 100% correct by the majority of pianists because of that
Art cracks the band up when he starts in on the tune a half step lower, little deleted scene moment! 1:38.
Charles Duckett Jr. Y'know I thought the same thing but then a similar thing happened at 3:38 which made me think that maybe it's just a glitch in the audio recording.
@@thepianojuggler If you listen real close, he modulates down to Bb from B at the end of the intro; it's so sublime, you really can miss it altogether. Incidentally, it reminds me of those old analog conversions where the tune starts in one key, but ends at least a half step away due to the irregular phonograph speed. I secretly wonder if Tatum, in all his glory, wasn't imitating the unpredictable speed of the old turntables. I once worked with a pianist who would play The Entertainer, and he would randomly modulate even in the middle of beats to imitate the wonky playback.
and at 3:37, when his ascending right hand run should hit an "F" concert (the 5th in Bb), it warbles up to an F#... so, it's really anybody's guess! But seriously, he went up a half step to screw with his buddies...
Bro I just heard it, he does it twice, starts in B, Goes to Bb, then briefly does it in A. Plus the entire melody is done with just the right hand. Ive been practicing this for 3 days but haven't gotten past 4 minutes in the video.
He's is completely messing with the all white camera crew.
THE CONCERTO CAN WAIT!
Here is a great Musician so neglected by the listeners.
Let us make that he never dies and is always alive...
This man was just amazing. I love him!
When Art plays one of his downward runs, I'm not even sure which fingers are hitting which keys
Dick Hyman saw and heard Art Tatum play several times in person and has some fingerings for some of Tatum's runs in some of his method books for jazz piano. Many of those runs are only fingered with the first two or three fingers on the right hand (thumb and forefinger, with or without the middle finger).
@@andrewbarrett1537 How does that work? Does he just tap them lightly and then glide his hand further left instead of really pressing them? That would explain why his sound is so tinkly and fluffy. I'd really love to know.
@@jazzygiraffe8589 That and his preference for a piano with a light action... Beyond amazing.
That's a great player
Provavelmente o maior gênio da execução no Jazz. Saudações do Brasil
Respect! I knew that I was going to be impressed by Art Tatum. I wish that I could play like that!
If you could play like that then you’d know what it feels like to be the greatest at something in the world. Probably a pretty good feeling I imagine.
@@icecreamforcrowhurst uh huh 😎
Wonder pianist! Great awesomeness!
Tatum was super good at the piano.
Ahmaj says , one time he play a whole song and tatum listen, when he finish tatum got close to him and said "if you would of play it with one hand then you would of got my attention.
Then tatum play the whole song with one hand (I believe his left hand )
Tatum was a super pianist.
One time listen and used one hand to play at a genius level !
Amazing.
Ahmaj jamal says there is no one till this day that can play as much piano like Tatum !
I don't know bit he says there is no one close enough!
Horrowitz love tatum a lot , tatum was his favorite pianist !
They were really determined to transcribe what he was playing....lol. They had it from the same short piece filmed from several different angles over and over. Go Art Tatum!! Killin' it!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS PRICELESS VIDEO! NEVER BEFORE SEEN! REALLY APPRECIATE THIS!! THANKS AGAIN!!
Tiny Grimes on Tenor Guitar!
The One and ONLY....KING of JAZZ PIANO. ! ALL HANDS DOWN No Arguments !
7:50 Just this tiny bit is enough to understand why Oscar Peterson almost quit playing piano after listening to Art...
Did he just play that one sick run with only right hand?!
He should be spoken of in the same breath as Shostakovich and Stravinsky, and he's not the only jazz musician I'd say that about.
You can see the saxophone player just starting to laugh
But seriously Peterson is an equal of Tatum. Maybe not at the time but at some point Peterson reached Tatum’s level. The recordings are there to prove it.
An absolute legend.
GENIUS AT WORK
This guy is so terrific, how on earth do those fingers move
Tatum and Oscar Peterson are considered the 2 most talented pianists of all time, complete mastery of their instrument, genius is a gross understatement.
They are both splendid but there's a lot of others that could play just as good, if not better. Bud powell was capable of everything from stride to bop. Earl hines was a pioneer I think, doing things in the 20s that they were doing in the 40s and 50z. Herman chittison is very forgotten, and was right up there in styling with Tatum and Peterson, though much more of a stride sound in most records.
Though I love Tatum, I can only listen to so much of him for some reason. No disrespect at all intended to him.
@@SugarBearMosher “Many who could play just as good, if not better”? You just embarrassed yourself with that one, hoss. Ripped your drawers in front of all the people.
@@PabluchoViision lmao and how is that?
@@SugarBearMosher Bill Evans isa other pia ist who can rexuce me to jelly
They were the greatest four pianists ever
I just love Art isn't even looking at the keyboard, he's looking at the time on the wall, discussing major events in the middle east with the crowd, reading the newspaper, meanwhile, his hands just keep playing the most amazing piano ever. Yes, I know he was basically blind, which makes all of it even more amazing.
Art Tatum was almost completely blind, he had only 25% of his right eye sight and nothing of his left. He could not read sheet music in real time and he could not see the whole piano keyboard, only a few keys in a grey mist.
Imparagonabile....
The video of Yesterdays is in the wrong key. It's been sped up. You can see he's in D minor, but the sound is in Eb minor, i.e. it's higher and (I guess) faster. I didn't measure, but sounds like about a semitone sharp, which would be about 6% faster that it actually was. It's super-weird for me (with perfect pitch) to hear black notes whenever he plays white ones, and vice versa! The very first note of the melody he hits an A with his little finger and out comes a Bb.
Why is it people never truly appreciate being in the presence of greatness !!?
Bizarre that people are commenting here that folks in the bar are ignoring the music... huh? It's clearly a scene being filmed at the club - you can clearly hear a guy repeat 'go ahead please' and 'cut' before and after takes, and the patrons clearly wouldn't be encouraged to gawp at the performers but rather to act naturally...
Yeah, filmed for the March of Time newsreel, I believe.
Some people have the need to complain.
the guitarist enjoy it really deep. Such a Story teller on the keys ! Yes Sir ! R.I.P. Art Tatum.
Thanks for posting this.
Apparently many of AT's original clips were destroyed to make room!
what the f... are you serious? wow... I would kill those idiots.... murder those assholes.... is there anything more precious than art tatum playing?
I am not overreacting tell me who are those people I will find them
Imagine if we saw Chopin playing the piano then someone would decide.... PHEW LET'S DELETE IT
Make room for what?
So many precious things have been lost that way.
awesome, thanks for uploading it
incredible!!!!!!!!!!!
Something special, legendary
Thanks for posting.
Wow, that second piece is great, they really blew the lid off that place.
Rachmaninov said : ''If that guy (Art) gets into classical music, we (all the classical pianists) would be in hard trouble.."
The best, bar none! May God rest his immortal soul!!!!!
I have heard of him for ever but I do not think I have ever heard him until tonight. Amazing man and apparently modest with it.
I know Von Henselt was supposed to have had velvet paws, but Tatum surely takes it to a whole new level!
Imagine being at that bar that night. Jesus Christ.
I'd buy Art his drinks and food.
Greatest of all time
Phenomenal
go ahead please
I need to sample that
@@harriporter8044 why did I write go ahead please ?
@@Cadence24 0:54 my dear friend
2:38
@@Cadence24 That's what the cameraman or director says to Art Tatum to signal him to start playing, probably since he couldn't really see a visual cue to start.
Un enorme pianista!
Wow what a gem this video is! Awesome!
Christ on a bike!... All hail the King!
He isn’t t even looking at the piano most of the time. Freakishly talented.
well he was almost blind
@@null8295 ...When you're blind in one eye, and have twenty percent vision in the other, you're legally blind.
Some would say he wasn't looking at anything at all
They had to bring him and the 🎹 in with a Forklift bc he is attached to it the way he played they had to be inseparable GOD Blessed Art Tatum " PERSONALLY!!!!!"
The great Ray Bauduc on drums in the Dorsey section .
9:48 HIS LEFT HAND. JESUS CHRIST.
Art performed in his early years at the "Tabernilla" in Toledo Ohio area . This was in prohibition years and a rather questionable styled location but the foundation of jazz greats of the era. That club has been leveled and now houses condos where we presently live. Great memories of great jazz greats with Toledo Ohio as their beginning.
Toledo? Really?
@@adhanda2017 also Roy Bargy
doubt if he can improvise...
He just makes it look so easy….
His fingers just GLIDE over the keys!
As they're supposed to 😉 that's how you play piano.
@@LasseBoogieJensen His super-precise staccato articulation reminds me a lot of Glenn Gould!!
The greatest master.
I just realized he’s not even looking at the piano while playing💀
Yeah, he's 80% blind lol.
When I first saw this I thought for sure the video had been sped up. Maybe shot at 18 fps. Then I realized my TH-cam player was set at 1.25 speed.
Oscar, Nat, etc.. They all talk of Art Tatum's influence on their playing....
When the video started I hat to check whether it was a 1.25x speed. Damn, he's smooth
The Greatest of all time
ah yes, a time where bread costs a nickel and coke still had coke in it. The golden era is over as far as culture is concerned. Luckily some of that gold was captured for us in the dark ages.
That was just great...
those days state of the art : tatum's piano // tiny grimes' guitar
+ (very young) charlie mingus' bass !! matchless trio, take after take
Is this really Mingus? Most lists say its slam stewart and I dont think that mingus was in new york at that time.
Also really looks like slam stewart
Definitely not Mingus. Others say Slam Stewart and I guess they're probably right.
@@ChrisWrightOM1 You're defintely right. ( Mingus played with Red Norvo + Jimmy Raney. )
@@gabchaim8232 Wasn't it Tal Farlow? Unless you're talking about a different trio.
How could 42 people not like this?
“Blacks see the content of their lives being elevated into art. They don’t always know that it’s possible, and it’s important for them to know that”. August Wilson
Wilson was a first-class bullshitter. Every single people have had the content of their lives elevated into art.
Rather Unique 🏆❤
Perfection.
Un súper referente en el mundo jazz!
I think that he hated publicity..
Anecdotes suggest that recorders were quietly slipped under pianos and behind curtains.
It was said that had he gone to the Concert Platform, he would have worried a good few people.
Not only that, apparently George Gershwin and even Vladimir Horowitz plus a few others snuck around a couple of late night clubs in NY to check this Tatum out and were definitely left in awe.
@@tropicvibe Horowitz eventually met Tatum.
He played his awesome concert piece The Stars and Stripes and
and Tatum played a version of Tea for Two.
Horowitz stopped him and said "Amazing! How long did it take to arrange and memorise all that?"
Tatum.."I just did it as I was playing...!
Horowitz was suitably amazed.
Kids have you heard the stuff folks are fobbing you off with now these days! My daddy is way bigger than your daddy (-: Art Tatum king of the keys. Makes me smile every time, the music is so animated. Thanks for sharing.
You just made my week
God's in the room 🎹👌
People are talking and drinking and laughing and not even paying attention. Idiots. Sitting in the presence of such greatness and wasting the opportunity!
The greatest!