| Tatum, Art / Piano Starts Here: Live At The Shrine |
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| Album: | Piano Starts Here: Live At The Shrine | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Tatum, Art | Added: | Jul 2008 | |
| Label: | Sony Classical | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2008-08-17 | Pull Date: | 2008-10-19 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Oct 19 | Oct 5 | Sep 28 | Sep 7 | Aug 31 | Aug 24 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 01, 2012: | Nathin' To Do Tiger Rag | 4. | Sep 30, 2008: | Echo Lab Tiger Rag | |
| 2. | Oct 17, 2008: | Memory Select: Tom Djll's "Mockracy" Tatum Pole Boogie | 5. | Sep 26, 2008: | No Cover, No Minimum Tea For Two | |
| 3. | Oct 17, 2008: | No Cover, No Minimum Tatum Pole Boogie | 6. | Sep 03, 2008: | Emphysema For Emphasis Someone To Watch Over Me |
| Album Review |
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| Fo Reviewed 2008-08-10 | ||
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ART TATUM: Piano Starts Here – Live at the Shrine Sony Classical, 2008 SOLO PIANO – This disc needs a little explanation… Jazz piano god Art Tatum originally recorded these tracks in 1933 or in concert in 1949. The performances were great but the recordings were poor. So last year, Zenph Studios put each one through a rigorous computer analysis and recreated them on a Yamaha Disklavier – a high-tech grand piano. So these are like player-piano rolls, only incredibly detailed, accurate to the millisecond and (supposedly) revealing every nuance hidden by the muddy originals. Does it work? Is it restored art or soulless techno-trickery? Good or evil? You be the judge. There are 13 tracks, presented twice: 1-13 are in stereo surround; 14-26 are in binaural stereo. The first 4 tracks in each set (the 1933 cuts) were recorded in a studio, and the remainder in front of a live audience (which seems to be faking its enthusiasm) at the same venue as the original 1949 concert. 1 / 14 – trips & tiptoes merrily 2 / 15 – relaxed blues, gets knotty 3 / 16 – fast but perfectly articulated 4 / 17 – classy tune, tricky playing 5 / 18 – very playful classical theme 6 / 19 – quirky boogie-woogie 7 / 20 – relaxed and warm 8 / 21 – chopped-up and speedy 9 / 22 – in little gusts, then rolls 10 / 23 – playful introspection 11 / 24 – brief Irish melody 12 / 25 – elaborate and elegant 13 / 26 – walks, runs, leaps [ Fo ] 10-Aug-08 | ||
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