http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:45:02 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/01/30/130858.php#comment-40651 Art Tatum is the man!!! This guy was so fast,so creative and so influential he blows me away.Ray Charles once said and I quote: "I couldn't carry Art Tatum's shit bucket".... 40651@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:45:02 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/01/30/130858.php#comment-40594 I've been meaning to get to this one Joe, and now I will. Thanks! 40594@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:07:05 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/01/30/130858.php#comment-40591 Thanks, bookofjoe, for advising the rest of the world to listen to Mr. Tatum, the greatest pianist ever lived. There is so many stories about ol' Art, but my favorite is the one about Fats Waller, when during mid-performance he spotted his friend walking in the bar. Fats stopped playing, stood up and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I just play piano. Now God is in the house." I don't have the "20th Century Piano Guiness," but I have Tatum's "The Piano Starts Here," and I swear, his version of "Tiger Rag" is the best sound ever recorded. 40591@blogcritics.org Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:02:27 EST