Art Tatum - Complete Original American Decca Recordings '2002

Tracks list

Tracklist

Disc: 1

1. Tiger Rag
2. Strange as It Seems
3. Ill Never Be the Same
4. You Gave Me Everything But Love
5. This Time, Its Love
6. Tea for Two
7. St. Louis Blues
8. Tiger Rag
9. Sophisticated Lady
10. Moonglow
11. Emaline
12. Love Me
13. Cocktails for Two
14. After Youve Gone
15. Stardust
16. III Wind
17. Shout
18. Strange as It Seems
19. Ill Never Be the Same
20. You Gave Me Everything But Love
21. This Time, Its Love

Disc: 2

1. Beautiful Love
2. Liza (All the Cloudsll Roll Away)
3. I Would Do Anything for You
4. When a Man Loves a Woman
5. After Youve Gone
6. I Aint Got Nobody
7. Liza (All the Cloudsll Roll Away)
8. (Take Me Back to My) Boots and Saddle
9. Body and Soul
10. With Plenty of Money and You (Oh! Baby What I Couldnt Do)
11. What Will I Tell My Heart?
12. Ive Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
13. Gone With the Wind
14. Stormy Weather
15. Chloe
16. Sheik of Araby
17. Beautiful Love
18. When a Woman Loves a Man
19. Body and Soul
20. With Plenty of Money and You (Oh! Baby What I Couldnt Do)
21. Chloe

Disc: 3

1. Tea for Two
2. Deep Purple
3. Elegie
4. Humoresque
5. Sweet Lorraine
6. Get Happy
7. Lullaby of the Leaves
8. Tiger Rag
9. Sweet Emalina, My Gal
10. Emaline
11. Moonglow
12. Love Me
13. Cocktails for Two
14. St. Louis Blues
15. Begin the Beguine
16. Rosetta
17. (Back Home Again In) Indiana
18. Deep Purple
19. Sweet Emalina, My Gal

Disc: 4

1. Wee Baby Blues
2. Stompin at the Savoy
3. Last Goodbye Blues
4. Battery Bounce
5. Lucille
6. Rock Me Mama
7. Corrina, Corrina
8. Lonesome Graveyard Blues
9. I Got Rhythm
10. Cocktails for Two
11. I Aint Got Nobody
12. After Youve Gone
13. Moonglow
14. Deep Purple
15. I Would Do Anything for You
16. Liza (All the Cloudsll Roll Away)
17. Tea for Two
18. Honeysuckle Rose
19. Lucille
20. Lonesome Graveyard Blues

Recording Date:August 5, 1932 - January 5, 1944

Collectors of recordings by piano great Art Tatum are frustrated by the many
haphazard, poorly documented, and often incomplete collections of his work; this
four-CD set by the English label Definitive attempts to collect all of his known
recordings for Decca, but there are a few surprising twists. Tatum recorded many
of his piano solos with several different takes, so as many as 23 alternate
takes remain unissued (and are most likely either lost or unusable) according to
Tatum discographer Arnold Laubich. But this is made up by the fact that all of
his sessions with singer Adelaide Hall for Brunswick (including four previously
unissued alternate takes, one of whose existence was not previously known) and
every song he waxed with blues singer Joe Turner are present. Tatums virtuoso
performances -- especially his solos of Tiger Rag, Elegie, and Body and Soul --
are still amazing many decades after they were first released. The 24-bit sound
of this compilation is richer than the earlier MCA and GRP CD reissues, so the
release of this thorough collection may cause more than a few Tatum fans to
trade up. The only drawback to this highly recommended reissue is its rather
pedestrian liner notes.~Ken Dryden

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