Art's Blues

Stumbled on this at random today while looking for some other early jazz stuff.

Thoroughly mindblowing.

I Know That You Know

from a bio at

http://www.duke.edu/~njh3/biography.html:

Legend has it that classical pianist Vladimir Horowitz was so awed by Tatum's wizardry that it brought him to tears. Fittingly, his strongest support comes from one of his early influences, Fats Waller. One time in 1938 Tatum dropped in to hear Waller play at a club. By way of introduction Waller told the audience, "I just play the piano, but God is in the house tonight."

Seems about right. I'm no pianist, but it's easy to hear the insane level of mastery here. Even better, it's in service of musical effect-- and the songs are exceptionally beautiful with this level of baroque ornamentation.

Can't find the proper art for this collection, so substituted random photo.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zmnydxkmeki/Art Tatum- Classic Piano Solos.zip