ART TATUM: THE ART OF JAZZ PIANO
Art Tatum
Art Tatum: The Art of Jazz Piano is still the only documentary portrait of the greatest jazz pianist ever. Using photographs and some rare footage of Tatum and his contemporaries, the film reconstructs his genius.
Included are interviews with musicians who played with him or who were influenced strongly by him, including Guitarists Tiny Grimes and Les Paul, and pianists Marian McPartland, Hank Jones, Dick Hyman, and George Shearing. Their reminiscences and demonstrations underline Tatum's stutus as the "musician's musician."
Art Tatum (1909-1956) lifted his genre to a new plateau - playing at speeds literally undreamed of, segueing effortlessly between swing, stride and boogie-woogie, and lapsing into the most fantastic melodic variations and inventions that anyone had heard up through that time.
For various reasons, biographical documentaries on Tatum have been surprisingly scant, but Art Tatum: The Art of Jazz Piano marks one of the few exceptions.
Bonus Materials include the following film clips: Tiny's Exercise, Yesterdays, Blue Monk, and Hothouse.
Contents
- St Louis Blues
- Tiger Rag
- LaRocca & DeCosta
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Sweet Lorraine
- Strange As It Seems
- Rosetta
- Aunt Hagar's Blues
- I Got Rhythm
- Humoresque
- Toledo Blues
- My Ideal
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Price: $14.95
Product Details: DVD (NTSC/ALL REGION)
60 Minutes
Product Code: 820680105396
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