Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

Tatum could also play the blues with authority.

The sounds that Tatum produced with the piano were also distinctive.

Tatum also displayed phenomenal independence of the hands and ambidexterity, which was particularly evident while improvising counterpoint.

Nick LaRocca's 1917 composition " Tiger Rag " was covered by Louis Armstrong in several different versions throughout his career, while Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and The Mills Brothers also recorded important and influential cover versions of the jazz standard.

Before Powell, Art Tatum and Earl Hines had also somewhat explored independent homophony closely resembling later piano playing.

He has also been compared to " Art Tatum with contemporary-classical leanings.

Garrett also dated celebrities such as his former Family co-star Kristy McNichol, Tatum O ' Neal and Justine Bateman.

The album also contains nods to Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Tatum O ' Neal, and Lita Ford.

Fetkovich also performed experiments by throwing a football against a brick wall at a velocity greater than 60 feet per second, twice the speed that Fetkovich calculated that Bradshaw's pass was traveling when it reached Tatum and Fuqua.

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Adams also feuded with Tatum and Hyatt, with Sunshine once again managing Chris.

Carl then says that he met Dedrick Tatum while he was at a party with Dr. Hibbert at Bleeding Gums Murphy's house ( both of those characters are also African-American ).

The film also stars Kristen Stewart and Tatum O ' Neal and premiered in 2010 at the Sundance Film Festival to favorable reviews.

He also received the Lasker Award of the American Public Health Association ( 1950 ), the Dyer Award ( 1951 ), the Emil Christian Hansen Prize of Denmark ( 1953 ), the Albert Einstein Commemorative Award in Science ( 1958 ), the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958 with E. L. Tatum and J. Lederberg, the National Award of the American Cancer Society ( 1959 ), and the Kimber Genetics Award of the National Academy of Sciences ( 1960 ).

The AICF also created a new glossy secular coffee-table commercial magazine called Quest with a circulation of several hundred thousand copies ; bought the book publisher Everest House and funded the motion picture Paper Moon starring Tatum O ' Neal.

Kapp also signed new performers such as Chick Webb, Art Tatum, Jimmie Lunceford, Ethel Waters, and a year after the company's founding, Louis Armstrong.

In 1851, Smith married Hannah Tatum Whitall, a woman who also descended from a line of prominent Quakers in the region.

Homer and Ned try to escape from the waitresses, going on a wild rampage through the casino, until they are confronted by casino security, Gunter and Ernst ( also from "$ pringfield "), Drederick Tatum, Boomhauer, and the Moody Blues.

The song was featured in the 2012 film The Vow, where Channing Tatum ( Leo ) sings it ; it also appears on the film's soundtrack.

Victory and Tatum also teamed together in the Universal Wrestling Federation ( where they were managed by Tatum's girlfriend, Missy Hyatt, and won the UWF Tag Team Championship in 1986 ) and Wild West Wrestling ( where they won the WWW Tag Team Championship in 1987 ).

" Similarly, in 2004 ESPN. com released a list of the Top 100 Simpsons sport moments, ranking the entire episode at # 2, saying " Greatest sports introduction ever: In the Tatum fight, Homer is introduced as the Brick Hithouse ( and is also known as the Southern Dandy ), and his walk-to-the-ring music is ' Why Can't We Be Friends?

Art Tatum, commonly cited as the greatest jazz pianist of all time, was also almost blind.

Tatum also signed with Beatrice Model agency in Milan, Italy and Ford Models in New York City.

Mainstream jazz piano has gone in a different direction than that pioneered by Tatum.

Tatum was not inclined toward understatement or expansive use of space.

Preferring a more organic approach to music I use the term Spontaneous Composition .” “ I have never considered the music of people like Duke Ellington, Don Byas, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, John Coltrane, Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill – I have never considered this creative tradition ‘ Jazz ’.”

In addition to using major and minor seconds, dissonance was inherent in the complex chords that Tatum frequently used.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

* 1909 – Art Tatum, American jazz pianist ( d. 1956 )

Toledo has produced a number of famous artists, including actors Jamie Farr, Alyson Stoner, Katie Holmes, Adrianne Palicki and Danny Thomas, musicians Tom Scholz, Lyfe Jennings, and Scott Shriner, painters Israel Abramofsky and James E. Brewton, jazz pianist Art Tatum.

Jazz stars in the 1950s who came into prominence in their genres called Bebop, Hard bop, Cool jazz and the Blues, at this time included Lester Young, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Gil Evans, Jerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Max Roach, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday.

* November 5 – Art Tatum, American jazz pianist ( b. 1909 )

Other notable jazz pianists who occasionally played the celesta include Meade " Lux " Lewis, Willie " The Lion " Smith, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, McCoy Tyner, Sun Ra, and Herbie Hancock.

Nancarrow's first pieces combined the harmonic language and melodic motifs of early jazz pianists like Art Tatum with extraordinarily complicated metrical schemes.

His jazz piano style is virtuosic and eclectic, drawing upon such influences as Art Tatum, Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, and Bill Evans.

Arthur " Art " Tatum, Jr. (, October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956 ) was an American jazz pianist and virtuoso who played with phenomenal facility despite being nearly blind since birth.

Tatum is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time and he was a major influence on later generations of jazz pianists.

Rainey, who too was visually impaired, likely taught Tatum in the classical tradition, as Rainey did not improvise and discouraged his students from playing jazz.

Tatum identified Waller as his main influence, but according to pianist Teddy Wilson and saxophonist Eddie Barefield, " Art Tatum's favorite jazz piano player was Earl Hines.

Two years later Tatum won Esquire Magazine's first jazz popularity poll.

Although Tatum was idolized by many jazz musicians, his popularity faded in the mid to late forties with the advent of bebop-a movement which Tatum did not embrace.

But jazz musicians were beginning to incorporate improvisation while playing over the chord changes of tunes, and Tatum was a leader in that movement.

Benny Green wrote in his collected work of essays, The Reluctant Art, that " Tatum has been the only jazz musician to date who has made an attempt to conceive a style based upon all styles, to master the mannerisms of all schools and then synthesize those into something personal.

When jazz pianist Stanley Cowell was growing up in Toledo, his father prevailed upon Tatum to play piano at the Cowell home.

From the foundation of stride, Tatum made great leaps forward in technique and harmony and he honed a groundbreaking improvisational style that extended the limits of what was possible in jazz piano.

But perhaps because his playing was so difficult to copy, only a handful of musicians — such as Oscar Peterson, Johnny Costa, Johnny Guarnieri, Adam Makowicz, Luther G. Williams, Steven Mayer and Christopher Jordan, and, outside of the usual roster of jazz pianists, Andre Previn — have attempted to seriously emulate or challenge Tatum.