All The Things You Are

February 17, 2019 8:58 PM

The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Volume Eight is an album by Art Tatum and Ben Webster, with Red Callender on double bass and Bill Douglass on drums. The 1956 session was originally released in 1958 on a Verve Records album produced by Norman Granz. He reissued the material as one of a series of eight Group Masterpieces featuring Tatum in collaboration with other artists, also issuing it as part of a boxed set, The Complete Pablo Group Masterpieces.
posted by growabrain (9 comments total)

Great stuff! Subtle phrasing and inventive ideas.
posted by Mental Wimp at 10:18 PM on February 17, 2019 [1 favorite]

This is gorgeous. Thank you.
posted by coolxcool=rad at 12:52 AM on February 18, 2019

Thank you! Greatly improved my start to the week ...
posted by carter at 4:53 AM on February 18, 2019

Seminal and pretty!
posted by DJZouke at 5:21 AM on February 18, 2019

I thought Tatum had died in the 40's. TIL.
posted by thelonius at 5:27 AM on February 18, 2019

Wonderful. Thank you so much.
posted by james33 at 5:45 AM on February 18, 2019

Lovely
posted by pt68 at 8:27 AM on February 18, 2019

Didn't know about this. Very very nice. Thank you.
posted by aleph at 9:23 AM on February 18, 2019

Tatum is one of my all-time favorite players. If you listen past the virtuostic pyrotechnics and the firehose of musical ideas you can hear great depth of beauty and soul.
A philosopher I know has said that if the devil offered him a bargain, he would opt to play like Tatum. I can’t disagree.
posted by Jode at 12:52 PM on February 18, 2019 [2 favorites]