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Offline elevateme_returns

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Art Tatum
on: May 17, 2007, 10:28:31 AM
Does anyone have anything by Art Tatum? not crappy arrangements, the real things.thank you!
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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #1 on: May 18, 2007, 03:46:21 PM
Here's a few:

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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #2 on: May 18, 2007, 05:16:00 PM
thanks any more out there?
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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #3 on: May 18, 2007, 06:25:26 PM
I have/had a 200pages long book with transcriptions of 12 songs (I remember caravan and tendery).
I will look if I can find something for you.
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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #4 on: May 18, 2007, 06:35:27 PM
There you go. A lot of pleasure, not an easy job.
If anyone has something of Oscar Peterson, I'm interested to.
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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #5 on: May 18, 2007, 09:14:32 PM
thank you so much franz_ !! i really really appreciate this.
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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #6 on: May 18, 2007, 10:38:48 PM
No problem ;)  Let me know how the work goes. Have fun.
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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #7 on: June 16, 2007, 02:01:06 PM
loooking for a new one : evaline. do you have it?
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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #8 on: June 16, 2007, 02:03:52 PM
heres some oscar peterson as you requested

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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #9 on: June 16, 2007, 05:38:41 PM
Quote from: elevateme_returns on June 16, 2007, 02:03:52 PM
heres some oscar peterson as you requested
Oh man, where did you get these from?? You're my HERO!!!
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Reply #10 on: June 16, 2007, 05:45:36 PM
Oh and by the way, do you have any recording of these transcriptions? I have quite a lot of Oscar, but I can't find these versions.
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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #11 on: June 16, 2007, 05:50:16 PM
Quote from: elevateme_returns on June 16, 2007, 02:01:06 PM
loooking for a new one : evaline. do you have it?

Tatums playing of that song reaches new heights of beauty.

Regretfully, the Classical pianist that recorded a lot of Tatums transcriptions did not.

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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #12 on: June 17, 2007, 04:30:48 PM
Quote from: franz_ on June 16, 2007, 05:45:36 PM
Oh and by the way, do you have any recording of these transcriptions? I have quite a lot of Oscar, but I can't find these versions.

sorry, afraid not . no recordings at all. try youtube or somewhere to hear them

Quote from: thalbergmad on June 16, 2007, 05:50:16 PM
Tatums playing of that song reaches new heights of beauty.

Regretfully, the Classical pianist that recorded a lot of Tatums transcriptions did not.

Thal

omg yes tatums playing is amazing. which classical pianist are you referring to? i havent heard anyone other than the man himself.
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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #13 on: June 17, 2007, 04:42:47 PM
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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #14 on: June 17, 2007, 07:27:52 PM
listening to it now on naxos online library.. .  this is shite lol
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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #15 on: June 17, 2007, 07:32:41 PM
OMGG AAAAHHHHH AWFUL!!!!! what was the point in recording this cd?!?!?!? art tatums is so good compared to this crap.

back on topic if anyone has the sheet music for emaline i would REALLY appreciate it if you could let me know. thankyou!!
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Reply #16 on: June 17, 2007, 07:46:26 PM
Tis a shame, as the same pianist recorded the Liszt v Thalberg disc and it was very good.

Listening to him play jazz reminds me a little of Menuin playing Jazz. He has just not got the "swing" and is stiff to put it mildly.

All of Tatums works are of course copyrighted.

Thal

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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #17 on: June 17, 2007, 07:49:26 PM
yes they are. but whoever has it can they pm me?
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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #18 on: June 18, 2007, 10:56:41 AM
thal, do the sheets for emaline even exist ? if so you know where i could buy them? somewhere that uses pounds not dollars
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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #19 on: June 18, 2007, 12:28:49 PM
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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #20 on: June 19, 2007, 07:32:48 PM
please
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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #21 on: June 19, 2007, 09:56:17 PM
I don't think that it has ever been written down.

When Mayer played it, it was an improvisation on a tune that Tatum played as an improvisation.

Sheet music for Tatum is pretty pointless, since i dont think he ever played the same piece the same way again. Most of the attempts that i have seen, are not that good but do serve as a template for experiment.

I think Mayer worked out his own arrangement of Emaline and plays it like a corpse.

This CD should be blasted into atoms.

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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #22 on: June 19, 2007, 10:20:53 PM
right, thanks thal
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Reply #23 on: June 19, 2007, 10:30:41 PM
You could actually write to Mayer. I suggest the following:

Dear Mr Mayer,

I have recently wasted £10 of my hard earned money on your Art Tatum Improvisations disk. God know what your are improvising on, but it sure aint Tatum.

Your playing is stiff, straight, and about as close to Jazz as Clementi.

It is my intention to start to learn Tatums music, with the song "Emaline", which is incidentally the one you make the biggest hash of.

I wonder if you would be so kind as to share with me the written notes, on the understanding that i will play it nothing like you did.

Regards

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Re: Art Tatum
Reply #24 on: June 19, 2007, 10:31:34 PM
hahahahahaha. in the mail as we speak. i'm actually sending that though, i really am
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