Schlagwort: Art Tatum (p)

Art Tatum (p) (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) – wiki –

Saxophonist Benny Green wrote that Tatum was the only jazz musician to „attempt to conceive a style based upon all styles, to master the mannerisms of all schools, and then synthesize those into something personal“.

Critic Whitney Balliett commented on the overall form of Tatum’s style: „his strange, multiplied chords, still largely unmatched by his followers, his laying on of two and three and four melodic levels at once […] was orchestral and even symphonic.“