Monday, October 18, 2010

Art Tatum - jazz piano virtuoso

They are born blind has never been proven to go against the music of Arthur Tatum Jr. heart. One of the most technically skilled pianist, his technique and compositions to manage, even musicians Boggle in this day and age.

Born October 13, 1909, Arthur Tatum difficult Seeing Eye after a cataract in one eye each other with a limited vision - a condition he had since he was only a few months. A child prodigy, he began tolearn to play piano recordings by her mother used to play at home. Slowly he began to play duets, not knowing what was intended to be played as duets, but playing both parts himself.

They have learned to play in this unusual way, his style was very fast, which is not surprising that he could play with acute precision. While he was developing his talent, he also made sure that the plan was always the same vote and I wish it were right-aligned.

Heunderwent surgery for the condition of his eyes, which are not exempt him too long to improve. Around 1930, when he was about 20 years, had caused damage to his eye again. He began his career in Ohio, where he was born. He then shifted base to New York in 1932.

His musical influences have grown over the years and has started to take after James P. Johnson and Fats Waller, who were considered the best stride piano players. His claim to fame is a race cut. A cutmatch was a game between players of Harlem stride piano, where a player would "cut" in the game the other player was playing and groped in the process of overcoming him. In a race cut in 1933, his heroes defeat the Keys - Fats Waller.

In these competitions, the standard songs that were played earlier in Harlem Strut and Carolina Shout and a handful of keys - all of which were written between Johnson and Waller. Tatum fought against them with his arrangement of personnel Tiger Rag - a melodyoriginally composed of the original Dixie Land Jazz Band. He beat competition from them and all others who make the event that marked the phasing out of step period. He became known to the stride style of piano playing. He held the record for the best tool only to be challenged by Donald "The Lamb" Lambert who came closest to challenging Tatum on the instrument that had come to overwhelm.

The immediate reaction of a pianistto a recording of Tatum would leave him baffled by what he did where and how. His fingers flowed like water on the keys. E 'stylist was so free in his playing the piano. His mastery of the ability to quickly move your fingers on the keys of a piano with a precision as if listening to a speeded up version of the player using the same techniques. This left him like a wind flying through a pianist to play on the other hand would tremble, because it wasdifficult.

The same technique is not complicated. Jimmy Rowles, an admirer and colleague confessed that despite the delay of the fastest part of his signature piece "Tiger Rag," you could have a perfect consistency, the syncopated rhythm. Taking the land of his stride piano roots, took the very genius of playing jazz and the proper use of pentatonic scales that allowed for a form of jazz music that was ideal for solo to grow. He has influenced many jazz masters of the period,Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, Billy Taylor, Bill Evans and Chick Corea.

Another useful work of genius that Tatum was the introduction of the swinging beat of a jazz piece. He was a firm believer that the king was showing melody in his music. He never attempted to leave the original melody of the song, preferably using the original melody of the song's chord progressions innovate to match the melody.

The man was a genius at the pianobecause most musicians could not keep pace with his speed and extended techniques. He will be remembered as the jazz piano virtuoso.

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