Art Tatum - Tiger Rag download song

This requires two brains. The left hand is insane and the right. Whole note scales, runs up and down, tri-tones, all the odd-even rhythms...ha

His right hand is scary good. His left hand is a nightmare to whoever studied the piano ever. But his creativity is at the highest pinnacle of genius

Definition of Imbecile: Someone who down votes Art Tatum. (Look it up - it's in Webster's)

Keep in mind that this man was blind in one eye.

The fact that I can hear this come from my crappy laptop speakers almost a century after it was recorded on some now-ancient machine makes me so very thankful but so sad at the same time. To hear this in person would be unbelievable.

I know that this may be subjective, but I have to think that Tatum was the greatest piano player/keyboardist in the history of the instrument. I am almost certain that Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven, and all the other great composers would have been in awe of his playing and imagination. 

Ben shiprio brought me here

So easy to forget he only had ten fingers… I keep listening for the other 26.

I believe in measure 15 he was supposed to play a B natural........

That's great. So, how many pianists were there again? 4?

The original black midi

No wonder the "classical boys were Amazed!!!!!

After hearing this i understand why a very young Oscar Peterson, in his own words got intimidated by Art Tatum talent and he stopped playing his piano for a few days after hearing Tatum for first time: he tought it was two people playing piano.

This makes me happy to have been born, so I could hear it.