Art Tatum

INCLUDES 6 BONUS TRACKS

4 1/2 STARS DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE

This release contains the complete original quartet session showcasing the brilliant Art Tatum with clarinet player Buddy DeFranco, plus Red Callender on bass, and Bill Douglass on drums. It was the only collaborative recording date by Tatum and DeFranco. The master takes were originally issued as The Art Tatum-Buddy DeFranco Quartet on Verve MGV-8213. For this edition, it was added all three existing alternate takes, as well as unaccompanied piano versions by Tatum of three of the album’s tunes. This music constitutes one of the various pairings of Tatum with other jazz greats produced by Norman Granz in the last years of the pianist’s life. Tatum was seriously ill at that time and neglected by record companies due to stylistic changes in the music industry. He would die on November 5, 1956 at the age of 47.

PERSONNEL:

ART TATUM, piano
BUDDY DeFRANCO, clarinet
RED CALLENDER, bass
& BILL DOUGLASS, drums

Los Angeles, California, February 6, 1956.

BONUS TRACKS:

[9-11] From the same session, but not included on the original LP.
[12-14]: ART TATUM, piano solo. Los Angeles, December 28, 1953 (12-13)
& April 22, 1954 (14) (Clef Recordings)

INCLUDES 16 PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01 Deep Night
02 This Can’t Be Love
03 Memories Of You
04 Once In A While
05 A Foggy Day
06 Makin’ Whoopee
07 You’re Mine You
08 Lover Man
09 Deep Night [A.T.] *
10 This Can’t Be Love [A.T] *
11 Once In A While [A.T] *
12 This Can’t Be Love *
13 Memories Of You *
14 You’re Mine You *

TOTAL TIME: 71:52