Release : Art Tatum - The Tatum Group Masterpieces (1956)
Artist : Art Tatum
Album : The Tatum Group Masterpieces (1956)
Genre : Jazz
Source : CDDA
Label : JVC / Fantasy
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Date : 00-00-2000
Encoder : LAME v3.97
Quality : 147kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 10
Time : 57:10 min
Size : 60.56 MB
1 Gone With The Wind 4:48
2 All The Things You Are 7:15
3 Have You Met Miss Jones? 4:49
4 My One And Only Love 6:15
5 Night And Day 5:31
6 My Ideal 7:18
7 Where Or When 6:28
8 Gone With The Wind (Alternate Take 1) 4:53
9 Gone With The Wind (Alternate Take 2) 4:51
10 Have You Met Miss Jones? (Alternate Take) 5:02
Art Tatum
The Group Masterpieces
JVC CD JVCXR-0034-2, monaural, 1956 (57:17) (Pablo CD 2405-431)
Ben Webster on tenor with Tatum on piano. It just doesn't get much better than
this. All the tunes are standards, from "Gone with the Wind" to "Night and Day."
I heard the version of "My Ideal" here on the radio a few years back, and
immediately went out and bought the Pablo CD. Just drop dead beautiful. Here, as
in the rest of the tunes, Tatum takes the intro and first solo, ornately
pearlescent and elegant, then Webster exhales his solo with gruff majesty and
restraint. What a wonderful contrast!
The recording, by Val Valentin, is a little less intense and captures less of
the recording space than the ones by Rudy Van Gelder. (Rudy had a great studio.)
Maybe because of that, the differences between the Pablo CD and the XRCD are
less apparent, mainly consisting of much better bass (which is very welcome)
and, again, more natural instrument sound. Believe me, you want a record that
captures as much of Ben's subtlety as possible: he was a master of the aside.