This week on Riverwalk Jazz, actor Vernel Bagneris offers a glimpse of 
Art Tatum
piano1909 - 1956
Shelly Berg Plays Art Tatum This Week on Riverwalk Jazz
"
data-original-title="" title="">Art Tatum through the words of jazz musicians who knew him, and noted pianist Shelly Berg performs Tatum masterworks with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band.
The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website.
Squarely grounded in the stride piano style of
The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM sattelite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website.
Squarely grounded in the stride piano style of
James P. Johnson
piano1894 - 1955
Fats Waller
piano1904 - 1943
Nearly blind from infancy, Tatum learned to play by ear as a toddler. Irresistibly drawn to the piano, Tatum would place his fingers on the keys depressed by player-piano rolls in his mother's collection. As a boy, he entertained his friends by replicating the sound of a bumblebee or an airplane on the piano.
In 1932—at the age of 22—Tatum moved to New York as singer
Adelaide Hall
b.1904Art Tatum didn't talk much about himself, but other musicians who admired his playing made up for it. One night in 1938, after Tatum dropped by to hear his mentor Fats Waller play, Waller told the audience, “I just play the piano, but God is in the house tonight."
Concord recording artist
Shelly Berg
pianoOn our show this week, in response to being asked how to understand Art Tatum's contribution to jazz, Shelly Berg says, “Babe Ruth's record has been broken, but after all these years nobody has ever eclipsed Art Tatum."
Continue Reading...
Visit Website | Purchase
Tags
Radio
Riverwalk Jazz on Public Radio International
Don Mopsick
Art Tatum
James P. Johnson
Fats Waller
Adelaide Hall
Shelly Berg
Buy Now
