Tatum worked first around Toledo and Cleveland and then later in New York at the Onyx Club for a few months ; he recorded his first four solo sides on the Brunswick label in March, 1933.

In 1941, Tatum recorded two sessions for Decca Records with singer Big Joe Turner, the first of which included " Wee Wee Baby Blues ", which attained national popularity.

Drummer Jo Jones, who recorded a 1956 trio session with Tatum and bassist Red Callender is quoted as quipping, " I didn't even play on that session [...] all I did was listen.

Tatum recorded commercially from 1932 until near his death.

Tatum demonstrated remarkable memory when he recorded 68 solo tracks for Norman Granz in two days, all but three of the tracks in one take.

However, the soundtracks were recorded off-air by Tatum enthusiasts at the time, and many are included in Storyville Records extensive series of rare Tatum recordings.

Zenph Studios, a software company focused on precisely understanding how musicians perform, recorded a new album of Tatum ’ s playing with Sony Masterworks in 2007.

Tatum recorded commercially from 1932 until near his death.

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.

Among the artists who have recorded " Tiger Rag " are Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Kid Ory and his Creole Jazz Orchestra, Bix Beiderbecke, Les Paul, Art Tatum, The Mills Brothers in a no.

With a new lineup, Kingdom Come managed one more international release on Polygram, an album entitled Hands of Time in 1991, co-writing with harpist / songwriter Carol Tatum ( Angels Of Venice ), which was recorded by with several session guitarists and drummers, including future Poison guitarist Blues Saraceno, and former Dancer drummer Bam Bamm Shibley, with Lenny Wolf himself playing the bass.

* 2004 Sketches: A Tribute to Art Tatum ( originally recorded in 1984 / 1978 )

In 1956 he recorded a classic set with pianist Art Tatum, supported by bassist Red Callender and drummer Bill Douglass.

He and his stable, the No Limit Soldiers, which included some of Master P's lackeys and midcard wrestlers Brad Armstrong and Chase Tatum, feuded with Curt Hennig and the West Texas Rednecks, who had recorded a single called " Rap is Crap.

" Prisoner of Love " is a standard that has been recorded by Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, Art Tatum, Perry Como, the Ink Spots, Mildred Bailey, Teddy Wilson with Lena Horne on vocals, Bing Crosby, Billy Eckstine, and James Brown.

" Night and Day " has been recorded many times, notably by Fred Astaire, Bill Evans, Art Tatum, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Dionne Warwick, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Bassey, Ringo Starr, Sondre Lerche, Doris Day, Deanna Durbin, Jamie Cullum, Etta James, and U2.

He also recorded with Lionel Hampton, Art Tatum ( 1941 ), the Capitol Jazzmen, and Lester Young.

In August 1932, Adelaide recorded " Strange as it Seems ", " I'll Never Be The Same ", " This Time it's Love " and " You Gave Me Everything but Love " using Art Tatum as one of her pianists on the recordings.

During an extremely long career ( Adelaide entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most enduring recording artist ), Hall has performed with major artists such as Art Tatum Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, Fela Sowande and Jools Holland, and has recorded as a jazz singer with Duke Ellington ( with whom she made her most famous recording, " Creole Love Call " in 1927 ) and with Fats Waller.

Monk's style at this time was later described as " hard-swinging ," with the addition of runs in the style of Art Tatum.

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

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.

A child prodigy with perfect pitch, Tatum learned to play by ear, picking out church hymns by the age of three, learning tunes from the radio and copying piano roll recordings his mother owned.

" Tatum triumphed with his arrangements of " Tea for Two " and " Tiger Rag ", in a performance that was considered to be the last word in stride piano.

Perhaps believing there was a limited audience for solo piano, Tatum formed a trio in 1943 with guitarist Tiny Grimes and bassist Slam Stewart, whose perfect pitch enabled him to follow Tatum's excursions.

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.

Tatum embellished melodic lines, however, with an array of signature devices and runs that appeared throughout his repertoire.

Tatum could also play the blues with authority.

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

" Tatum laughed and replied, " Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand, I'll do with my left.

Tatum played chords with a relatively flat-fingered technique compared to the curvature taught in classical training.

After regular club dates, Tatum would decamp to after-hours clubs to hang out with other musicians who would play for each other.

According to the review by Marc Greilsamer, " All of the trademark Tatum elements are here: the grand melodic flourishes, the harmonic magic tricks, the flirtations with various tempos and musical styles.

Tatum tended to work and to record unaccompanied, partly because relatively few musicians could keep pace with his fast tempos and advanced harmonic vocabulary.

Other musicians expressed amazed bewilderment at performing with Tatum.

" Clarinetist Buddy DeFranco said that playing with Tatum was " like chasing a train.

Perhaps because Tatum believed there was a limited audience for solo piano, he formed a trio in 1943 with guitarist Tiny Grimes and bassist Slam Stewart, whose perfect pitch enabled him to follow Tatum's excursions.

Using computer equipment coupled with an electronic incarnation of the player piano, they created re-performances of Tatum ’ s first four commercial tracks, from March 21, 1933, and the nine tracks from the April 2, 1949 live concert at Los Angeles ' Shrine Auditorium.

That honor goes to Slam Stewart, who would scat in octaves with his bowed bass in his solos, good examples of which can be found on the trio recordings he made with Art Tatum and Tiny Grimes.

In 1958, George Beadle and Edward Tatum received the Nobel Prize for work in fungi showing that one gene produces one enzyme.

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.

After his departure, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ryan Gosling, Channing Tatum, Alexander Skarsgård, Ewan McGregor, Robert Pattinson, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Michael Fassbender, Bradley Cooper, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joel Kinnaman, Russell Crowe, Chris Pine, Ryan Reynolds, and Jon Hamm were considered for the lead role.

In the eighth-season episode " The Homer They Fall ", the announcer at Homer's boxing match against Drederick Tatum refers to Fat Tony as Anthony D ' Amico, which he is called later as well, for example, by the FBI.

Lee Tatum and his wife, Mary, applied for a post office designation in 1895, beginning the town of Tatums in Indian Territory.

In 1925, Tatum moved to the Columbus School for the Blind, where he studied music and learned braille.

Earlier, Tatum had personally selected and purchased for Clarence Baker the Steinway piano at Baker's, finding it in a New York showroom, and shipping it to Detroit.

Tatum also pioneered the use of dissonance in jazz piano, as can be heard, for example, on his recording of " Aunt Hagar's Blues ", which uses extensive dissonance to achieve a bluesy effect.

" When Bud Powell was opening for Tatum at Birdland around 1950, the end of an era when musicians engaged in overt competition and so-called cutting sessions, Powell reportedly said to Tatum, " Man, I'm going to really show you about tempo and playing fast.

Numerous stories exist about other musicians ' respect for Tatum.

Perhaps the most famous is the story about the time Tatum walked into a club where Fats Waller was playing, and Waller stepped away from the piano bench to make way for Tatum, announcing, " I only play the piano, but tonight God is in the house.

Actress Tatum O ' Neal states in her book A paper life that she was named for him.

* James Lester ( 1994 ) Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-509640-1