Art Tatum

This 10 CD Tatum box contains 121/4 hours of his music, almost all of it recorded live. On most of these occasions he was free to play what he wanted to for as long as he wished, to talk with his friends, and even to sing along when the spirit moved him.
Twenty one of twenty three tracks on CD ten included here have never been issued before.
This box present this piano genius as you’ve never heard him before.

CD1: 21 tracks - 73:54
Art Tatum Piano Solos: (broadcast) [1-5] Cleveland, Ohio, February 27, 1934. & [6-7] New York, August, 1938 [8]-1939. Art Tatum Trio: Art Tatum (p), Tiny Grimes (g), Slam Stewart (b).
[9-13] Los Angeles, March 22, 1943 & [14 & 21] April 1944.
Art Tatum with Les Paul Trio: Art Tatum (p), Calvin Gooden (g), Les Paul (g), Clinton Nordquist (b). [15-20] Los Angeles, 1944.

CD2: 21 tracks - 77:29
Art Tatum Trio: Art Tatum (p), Tiny Grimes (g), Slam Stewart (b),
[1-2] April, [3-4] May 21, 1944 (broadcast) and [8] December 29, 1944 (broadcast).
Art Tatum Piano Solos: [5] New York July 5,1944 (broadcast) , [6] Fall 1944 (live) [7] September 18, 1944, [9-13] New York 1945 (live), & [14-15] October 23 & [16-21] 26, 1945.

CD3: 21 tracks - 74:05
Art Tatum Piano Solos: [1] New York, 1945. [2-7] Hollywood, California, January 21, 1946.
[8-10] New York, April 5, 1947. [9] Los Angeles, California, August 8, 1948 & [11-21] Toronto, Canada, November 1949 (live).

CD4: 18 tracks - 67:03
Art Tatum with the Club Norman Orchestra: [1-5] Art Tatum (p), Bill Carter (tp), Bill Povey (as), Johnny Ord (ts), Ned Ciashine (acc). Murray Lauder (b). Don Hilton (dr,), Wally Wickin (leader & recorder). Toronto, Canada, November 1949.
Art Tatum Piano Solos: [6-10] New York, September 2, 1951(broadcast) & 11-18] New York, July 1950 (live).

CD5: 21 tracks - 71:57
Art Tatum Trio: [1-4] Art Tatum (p), Everett Barksdale (g), Slam Stewart (b), New York,1951 (live).
Art Tatum Piano Solos: [5-6] 1951 & [7-21] live, 1951.

CD6: 18 tracks - 71:15
Art Tatum Trio: [1-3] Art Tatum (p), Everett Barksdale (g), Slam Stewart (b), New York, 1951 (live). [4-9], New York May 10, 1952 (live). [10-13]New York, February 2, 1953 (broadcast). [14-16] February 9, 1953 (broadcast). Art Tatum Piano Solos: [17-18] New York, February 16, 1953 (TV Broadcast).

CD7: 22 tracks - 74:57
Art Tatum Trio: Art Tatum (p), Everett Barksdale (g), Slam Stewart (b). [1-4]. New York, February 16, 1953 (broadcast) [6-12] Oregon, September 21, 1954. [13-15] New York, December 1954 (broadcast). [16-19] New York, June 2, 1955 (TV broadcast).
Art Tatum Piano Solos: [5] New York, April 17, 1954 (TV Broadcast) [20-22] Hollywood, July 8, 1955. (TV broadcast).

CD8: 20 tracks - 72:05
Art Tatum Trio: Art Tatum (p), Everett Barksdale (g), Slam Stewart (b). [1-2] New York, October 3, 1955 (TV broadcast). [3-9] New York, November 5, 1955 (Radio broadcast). [10-11] Chicago, Illinois March 25, 1956 (Radio broadcast). [15-17] Washigton DC, October 7, 1956 (broadcast). [18-20] New Jersey, October 14, 1956.
Art Tatum Piano Solos: [12-14] New York, 1956.

CD9: 27 tracks - 75:78
Art Tatum Duo: Art Tatum (p), Slam Stewart (b). [1-2] New York, July 8, 1944.
Art Tatum Piano Solo: [3] New York, January 6, 1945. [6-9] Los Angeles, October 13, 1952. Alan Roth Orchestra: [5] Art Tatum (p). Radio broadcast, Schaefer Revue Program on NBC Radio. New York, March, 5 1945.
Art Tatum with Vocalist: [10-27] Art Tatum (p, vo-2), Mal Collier (vo-1), Los Angeles, 1952.

CD10: 23 tracks - 77:07
Art Tatum Trio: [1-5] Art Tatum (p), Joe Shulman (b), Billy Exiner. New York, c. 1952.
[16] Art Tatum (p), Tiny Grimes (g), Slam Stewart (b). New York, December 5, 1943.
Art Tatum Duo: [6-7] Art Tatum (p), Tal Farlow (g). New York, 1952. [8-12] Art Tatum (p), Joe Mooney (org). New York,1952. [13-14] Art Tatum (p), Cholate Williams (b). New York, July 26 or 27, 1941.
Art Tatum with orchestra. [15] Radio broadcast “Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street”, on NBC Radio. New York, December 5, 1943.
[17-19] Louis Armstrong (tp, voc), Jack Teagarden (tb, voc), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Art Tatum (p), Al Casey (g), Oscar Pettiford (b), Sid Catlett (d). New York, January 16, 1944.
Art Tatum Piano Solos: [20-23] Cafe Society Downtown, New York, 1948

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