[Dixielandjazz] Art Tatum

[Jazzjerry at aol.com]

Hi all with all this talk about the above named piano player I though someone 
out there might be interested in the the following CD set which is being 
released on 14th July. The price to them as has to pay the tax is £GBP15.25 and 
for those who don't is will be £GBP12.98. Shipping extra

Art Tatum Piano Grand Master
PROPERBOX60
A 4-CD set with the customary exemplary Properbox standard of packaging and 
presentation. Includes 44-
page illustrated booklet with authoritative biography/musical critique of 
Tatum and full discographical details.
Other reissues of Tatum cannot compare or compete with this masterly 
retrospective. Art Tatum was an
enigma. Partially sighted, largely self-taught, yet one of the most 
technically accomplished piano players of
the 20th Century (admired by classical composers and pianists as well by jazz 
audiences), he was not
universally embraced by the jazz fraternity, some critics considering him too 
clever by half to be a real
jazzman! On the other hand, fellow jazz pianist Teddy Wilson said of him, 
"You get all the finest jazz pianists
in the world and let them play in the presence of Tatum. Then let Tatum play. 
Everyone (else) there will
sound like an amateur". This is the definitive anthology of artistic genius.


Cheers,

Jerry
Norwich,
U.K.