The Best of the Pablo Group Masterpieces

The Best of the Pablo Group Masterpieces Artist: Art Tatum
Label: Pablo
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 025218044028
EAN: 0025218044028
ASIN: B0000AB133


Release Date: 2003-07-29

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  1. " After Midnight - Mainstream Jazz"

Tracks:

  1. Perdido
  2. Memories Of You
  3. You Took Advantage Of Me
  4. All The Things You Are
  5. Body And Soul
  6. Under A Blanket Of Blue
  7. The Moon Is Low
  8. Just One Of Those Things
  9. Street Of Dreams
  10. Somebody Loves Me
  11. My Ideal
  12. Deep Night

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Outside of the cerebral offshoots.......2006-01-30

Art Tatum
The Best of the Pablo Group Masterpieces
Pablo Records PACD-2405-440-2
www.fantasyjazz.com
This is classy, exciting, good time music, evocative of all that was illicit and sensual in pre-Vegas, pre-Rat Pack Jazz Superstar America. Art Tatum suffered from a shortage of bandstand equals, making his combo productions uneven and sometimes disappointing, but this record, specifically designed to match him with serious peers, shows what he, and they, could do. For once, his finesse at the piano cannot be called "peerless."
Familiar names among Tatum studio partners here include Lionel Hampton, Buddy Rich, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Benny Carter, Louis Bellson, Red Callendar, "Sweets" Edison and Barney Kessel. Tunes, standards all, include "Perdido," "You Took Advantage of Me," "All the Things You Are," "Body and Soul," "Just One of Those Things," Street of Dreams" and "Somebody Loves Me," as well as others. Personnel or set list would make this a must for any serious jazz record collection; both together put it somewhere beyond essential.
Cutting edge, avant garde and outrageous in its day, this music has gained a quaint, almost Disneyesque patina with the passage of time. Outside of the cerebral offshoots, we rarely seek outrage in jazz today, finding it more easily in hiphop and other genres. This is brisk and beautiful.

5 out of 5 stars Great way to introduce a jazz piano pioneer into your ear..........2004-02-08

This is my first Tatum CD. My reading indicated that his best work was done solo, but my personal preference is for small-group jazz of the '50's, and this is exactly that. After long exposure to Shearing, Brubeck, Peterson, and other piano giants, and short but intense submersion into Monk, I finally felt ready for Tatum. Well, I like this a lot. Here are 12 classic songs from jazz and pop music, interpreted by Art when he was in his forties, and recorded well for Norman Granz in '55 and '56. For 70 minutes, you hear not only Tatum, but Lionel Hampton on vibes, Buddy Rich on drums, Buddy DeFranco on clarinet, Roy Eldrige on trumpet, Ben Webster on tenor saxophone, Benny Carter on alto sax, Sweets Edison on trumpet, etc. And the sidemen get interesting solo moments which add a lot to the enjoyment. If I were a pianist, I'd probably want to hear Art by himself, but I'm just a non-musican casual jazz fan. I don't need the expensive box set that this disc is meant to entice listeners to invest in, but I am glad I bought this great sampler. Most of these tracks are ballad or mid-tempo renditions, four-to-seven minute explorations of love songs by Rodgers and Hart, Kern and Hammerstein, Porter, Gershwin and others. The sound quality is fine, and the overall effect of the CD is cheerful. Musicians can study Tatum's technique and keep the earphones on to dissect how the other players either stay out of Art's way, or challenge him, or compliment him. I just put it on the player when I'm reading or sitting at the computer or puttering around the house doing quiet cleaning.

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