Art Tatum came out of nowhere, a pianist with a technique so ferocious that even the great Vladimir Horowitz was jealous of his abilities, re-imagining familiar standards with a degree of harmonic sophistication and freewheeling daring that had never before been displayed on any instrument. Tatum's music is art of the most breathless, over-the-top, embarrassment-of-riches kind, like a Kusturica film, a Zeffirelli production, a Rushdie novel or maybe most of all like late Joyce, every moment stuffed to bursting with ideas, flourishes, notes. These 20 dazzling tracks are culled from the 120 solo performances that Tatum recorded for Norman Granz in the last three years of his life, from 1953-56.