Daar heb je idd groot gelijk in, maar dit is niet zomaar "een verzamel". Veel opnames op dit album komen uit 1933, de eerste opnames voor 'The Solo Masterpieces'-reeks zouden pas 20 jaar later volgen. Dit album schets een mooi beeld van de jongere Art Tatum, de laatste opnames voor dit album werden gemaakt in 1949, het is eigenlijk een interessant album voor de Tatum-liefhebbers die zijn ander werk mogen.
Tiger Rag
- "When Oscar Peterson was still a young boy, his father played him a recording of Art Tatum performing "Tiger Rag". Once he was finally persuaded that it was performed by a single person, Peterson was so intimidated that he did not touch the piano for weeks.[7] Interviewing Oscar Peterson in 1962, Les Tompkins asked "Is there one musician you regard as the greatest?" Peterson replied "I’m an Art Tatum–ite. If you speak of pianists, the most complete pianist that we have known and possibly will know, from what I’ve heard to date, is Art Tatum."[8] "Musically speaking, he was and is my musical God, and I feel honored to remain one of his humbly devoted disciples."
~"Here's something new" pianist Hank Jones remembers thinking when he first heard Art Tatum on radio in 1935, "they have devised this trick to make people believe that one man is playing the piano, when I know at least three people are playing." -
(Bronnen: Wikipedia)