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| ARTIST: | Art Tatum |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Storyville Records |
| TYPE: | Jazz, Pop |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Stay as Sweet as You Are, Where or When, Louise, Song of the Vagabonds, Night and Day, Poor Butterfly, (Back Home Again In) Indiana, Sweet Lorraine, Yesterdays, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Dialogue, Very Thought of You, Somebody Loves Me, Continental, I Cover the Waterfront, Don't Blame Me, Dardanella, Very Thought of You, Come Rain or Come Shine, Someone to Watch Over Me, Valse in C# Minor, Opus 64, No. 2 |
| UPC: | 717101833320 |
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Customer Reviews of Live 1945-1949
Rare Tatum Gems! This 74 minute all solo CD is probably the best volume yet of Storyville's eight CD series of Art Tatum rarities drawn from radio and television broadcasts and private recordings.
Tracks 2 -7 are V disc recordings, some available elsewhere, and range from a fine 4 minute long "Where or When" to a one and a half minute "Night and Day". Tracks 8 - 10 are drawn from radio broadcasts, and include a typically inventive reading of "Sweet Lorraine".
However, for Tatum fans the primary reason to buy the CD are tracks 12 - 21, the long sought after but never previously released private recordings made by Ernie Faulkener in Toronto in 1949. The sound quality of these tracks is not good, but the quality of the music more than compensates for it. The claim is often made that Tatum played better in private than in the studio. In general this assertion has been met with some scepticism, but these tracks, along with the 1948 "Jazz Chronicle" and 1950-55 Ray Heindorf recordings lend it some credence. Tatum is inspired throughout this set. Two tracks stand out, both the only versions Tatum ever recorded of these tunes: a powerful version of "The Continental", and a jazz transformation of Chopin's Waltz in C# Minor, Opus 64 No. 2. This is an outstanding re-invention, more rumbustious than his much recorded arrangements of "Humoresque" and "Elegie". I can imagine Tatum playing this in cutting contests in response to Donald Lambert's own stride versions of the classics.
Excellent notes by Tatum expert Felicity Howlett round off an invaluable release. This is an essential purchase for Tatum fans.