The Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces

The Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces Artist: Art Tatum
Label: Pablo
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 6


UPC: 025218440127
EAN: 0025218440127
ASIN: B000000XHR


Release Date: 1991-07-01

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Tracks:

  1. Blues In C
  2. Undecided
  3. Under A Blanket Of Blue
  4. Blues In B Flat
  5. A Foggy Day
  6. Street Of Dreams
  7. S'Wonderful
  8. Makin' Whoopee
  9. Old Fashined Love
  10. (I'm Left With The) Blues In My Heart
  11. My Blue Heaven
  12. Hands Across The Table
  13. You're Mine You
  14. Idaho

Tracks:

  1. Night And Day
  2. I Won't Dance
  3. In A Sentimental Mood
  4. The Moon Is Low
  5. Moon Song
  6. You Took Advantage Of Me
  7. This Can't Be Love
  8. I Surrender Dear
  9. I Won't Dance
  10. In A Sentimental Mood
  11. What Is This Thing Called Love
  12. I'll Never Be The Same
  13. Makin' Whoopee
  14. Hallelujah

Tracks:

  1. Perdido
  2. More Than You Know
  3. How High The Moon
  4. This Can't Be Love
  5. Stars Fell On Alabama
  6. Lover Man
  7. Prisoner Of Love
  8. Love For Sale (Concept I)
  9. Love For Sale (Concept II)
  10. Body And Soul
  11. Please Be Kind
  12. This Can't Be Love
  13. Hallelujah

Tracks:

  1. Verve Blues
  2. Plaid
  3. Somebody Loves Me
  4. September Song
  5. Deep Purple
  6. September Song (78 RPM Single Version)
  7. What Is This Thing Called Love (Previously Unreleased)
  8. What Is This Thing Called Love (Previously Unreleased- Alternate Take)
  9. Just One Of Those Things
  10. More Than You Know
  11. Some Other Spring

Tracks:

  1. If
  2. Blue Lou
  3. Love For Sale
  4. Isn't It Romantic
  5. I'll Never Be The Same
  6. I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans
  7. Trio Blues
  8. Deep Night
  9. This Can't Be Love
  10. Memories Of you
  11. Once In A While
  12. A Foggy Day
  13. Lover Man
  14. You're Mine You
  15. Makin' Whoopee

Tracks:

  1. Deep Night (Previously Unreleased-Alternate Take)
  2. Once In A While (Previously Unreleased-Alternate Take)
  3. This Can't Be Love (Previously Unreleased-Alternate Take)
  4. Gone With The Wind
  5. All The Things You Are
  6. Have You Met Miss Jones?
  7. My One And Only Love
  8. Night And Day
  9. My Ideal
  10. Where Or When
  11. Gone With The Wind (Previously Unreleased-Alternate Take 1)
  12. Gone With The Wind (Previously Unreleased- Alternate Take 2)
  13. Have You Met Miss Jones? (Previously Unreleased-Alternate Take)

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Invaluable.......2006-04-01

Tatum's genius has never been in doubt, but at times his virtuosity could impede his rich jazz instinct. These group recordings bind Tatum a bit, in that he has to take in the idiosyncracies of his colleagues, but that limitation is actually liberating. Because his colleagues here are all great musicians themselves, no one is cowed by Tatum's mastery. The songs vary from plain lovely (Benny Carter, Roy Eldridge) to utterly sublime (Ben Webster, Lionel Hampton). It is the Hampton tracks that are the hreatest revelation: The two men speak in almost identical language on their instruments and inspire each other to to a kind of tense passion that is mark of great jazz improvisation. The only conceivable negatives have nothing to do with the music. The packaaging is indifferent, and the liner notes by Benny Green, while erudite, are written in a tone just this side of paranoia. The music could not be better.

5 out of 5 stars Fantastic piano playing - Pablo's packaging, not so good.......2000-11-28

You don't need to read my comments about Art Tatum's piano playing - he is simply amazing.

You will, however, be disappointed with the packaging. Pablo decided to use CD cases designed for 4 CDs per case to hold 3 CDs. These cases (you get 2 of them for those 6 CDs) take up a fair amount of real estate. The booklet they enclose is the size of a LP and the box that holds everything is the equivalent of a record case (LPs) that would hold all of Beethoven's symphonies.

I get the feeling that Pablo was trying to get rid of old LP boxes and used them to hold the CDs and booklet. I would have bought this set anyway, but Pablo could have done a much better job with the packaging.

5 out of 5 stars Truly "Group Masterpieces".......2000-09-28

In addition to recording Art Tatum in solo piano sessions that would yield an amazing seven CDs worth of material, Norman Granz also captured Tatum in a variety of group settings that would produce eight individual volumes of music. "Art Tatum - The Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces" brings all of these group recordings made between 1954-56 on six discs. This music in its collected form has to represent one of the towering achievements in recorded jazz history, not to mention jazz piano and classic 50s jazz. I won't go into specifics about the songs, sessions and personnel because the editorial review does that, and I have already written individual reviews for Volumes 3, 4 and 6 (plus there are excellent, informative reviews for the remaining titles by other customers). The Box Set is a major purchase, but if you are considering getting three or four of these volumes individually, you might as well get this because you will save money in the long run. Besides I guarantee you if start with Volumes 6, 7 and/or 8, you will fall in love with this music, and will want the whole enchilada anyway.

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  5. Dust ~ Ben Monder
  6. The Season ~ Jane Monheit
  7. The Water Is Wide ~ Charles Lloyd
  8. From the Round Box ~ Ravi Coltrane
  9. Dante No Longer Repents ~ Vinny Golia
  10. Rendezvous ~ Walter Beasley

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