Jorge Luis Prats = the resurrected Art Tatum

[ed palamar]

What say ye?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Classical_piano_in_Cuba&diff=648089225&oldid=648074088

I have more reason to suspect this being correct than incorrect.

But what's your gut reaction?

[8_octaves]

What say ye?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Classical_piano_in_Cuba&diff=648089225&oldid=648074088

I have more reason to suspect this being correct than incorrect.

But what's your gut reaction?

Hi Ed,

never consciously heard of Prats, and your linked article is interesting to me, whether Prats being the resurrected Art Tatum or not.  

Haven't often heard about some other names in the article, but I know the name Espadero, and the name Ignacio Cervantes: The number 6 of his "Cuban dances" is added in the "Little book of L.M. Gottschalk: Seven previously unpublished pieces", which I have, and furthermore, of course, in the "6 cuban dances"-collection at IMSLP (Cervantes).

Comparisons of Prats to Art Tatum I cannot judge, because I know nearly nothing.  

Cordially, 8_octaves!

[j_menz]

Prats was born in July 1956, Tatum didn't die until November 1956. You're talking nonsense.

[michael_c]

Apart from the fact that he obviously cannot be the resurrection of Art Tatum, what similarities do you see between the two pianists? One is classically trained and plays the classical repertoire, staying very faithful to the written indications. The other was largely self-taught and played jazz in a highly idiosyncratic manner, always improvising new ornamentations.

[ed palamar]

Prats was born in July 1956, Tatum didn't die until November 1956. You're talking nonsense.

Not in terms of the gift of bilocation, which has been shown to humanity at various times, even constantly with regard to the Gospels.

The changing in the twinkling of an eye concerning resurrection can also come in a variety of ways.

I don't know why specifically (save for a quatrain about the 2nd and 3rd children making great music who I associate with two of my older brothers, Robert and David), but I've met many people in arts/entertainment, mostly before I turned 13, Sviatoslav Richter, Al Pacino, Robert de Niro, Tom Hanks, Chuch Norris, Mel Gibson, John Wayne, Mike Tyson, Shaq O'Neil, Alexis Weisenberg, Manny Ax, Andre Watts, and others including, at a young age, Jorge Luis Prats.

The 3rd (of the 2nd and 3rd) remarked at the time that Jorge was Art Tatum.  I was recuperating from, amongst other things, temporary loss of both of my hands, and I only heard him speak briefly then, I didn't see him.

I met him once while I was doing some serious study later (and was told on the side at that time that he insisted on being overweight [like Art]), but hadn't heard him play until on-line at U-tube within the past c. 6 weeks.

Art was beaten when he was young, had poor sight from it, would have studied classical, but it wasn't time for that yet.

By the way, there probably isn't a piece of Cuban music that he doesn't play, amongst many works of the 'standard' repertoire.

And then there is his "Tenderly".

[mjames]

my sister was born on october the 17th therefor she is the reincarnation of chopin