Widely accepted amongst jazz giants as the greatest jazz piano player of all time, hands down. The recordings would never be super \"high fidelity,\" because many were recorded during the stone age. So, who cares about bit rate? And yet Art Tatum gets 4 out of 5 stars here on emusic. If we were real audiofiles to begin with, we would be digging up the original 78s and playing them through a head with vacuum tubes. Jeez.
if the recording is in mono (highly likely), then the bitrate will be a lot lower than what it would be if it were stereo. LAME is efficient like that.
Warning! These are ripped at 128kbits!
How can it be that music as marvellous as this is so obscure now? Tatum is undescribale - you have to hear him to believe it. Every element is outstanding. First of all his tone is beautiful - like Charlie Parker the pure sound he produces is full, rich and rounded. Then, his sense of time is superb. One of the things everyone remarks on when they hear Tatum at first is how he will take flight in the middle of a bar into a wild set of runs, going way off into different ideas and keys. What you realise after that is his ability to come back into the original tune at exactly the right beat. He really does have rythym. Start with this album by all means, though "The Best Of" was never more redundant as an album title - everything by Tatum is required listening, and you can find the whole set of the Pablo solo and group sessions on this site. Get them all and you'll have a treasure store you can go back to again and again for your whole life. Hope you discover him!
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