# CD review: Art Tatum – Wizard on the Keys 2022: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2022/03/15/cd-review-art-tatum-wizard-on-the-keys-2022-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2022-03-15T17:13:59+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**“By all the criteria of the nineteenth-century piano tradition, Art Tatum made
himself into a piano virtuoso worthy to be compared to the best who have ever played.**

This achievement certainly did not come from years of hard labor under European-
trained teachers, which is the usual route for concert pianists. It seems instead
to have come from a very fine match between the opportunities the piano offers, 
on the one hand, and Tatum’s innate sensitivities and gifts of coordination, on 
the other. Once he had been exposed to it and his mind had gotten its teeth into
it, he was launched into a search for higher and higher levels of achievement, in
the same way the great European artists had been.

He responded sensitively to the nature of the piano, as they had, and he arrived,
probably independently, at many of the same ways of dealing with it as they had.
His basic gifts, in other words, were world-class, and his gifts drove him to be
the pianist he was. Tatum wove the virtuoso tradition and the jazz idiom together
in his playing, from the early days of his development, and brought a previously
unimagined level of playing into jazz.”

01. St. Louis Blues
 02. Moonglow 03. Moon Song 04. No, No, Nanette: Tea for Two
05. Murder at the Vanities: Cocktails for Two 06. Present Arms: You took advantage
of me 07. Gone with the Wind 08. Honeysuckle Rose 09. The Boys from Syracuse: This
can’t be love 10. One Damn Thing After Another: My heart stood still 11. The Gay
Divore: Night and day 12. Oh, Kay!: Someone to watch over me 13. I surrender dear
14. Sweet Lorraine 15. Three Sisters: I won’t dance 16. The moon Is low 17. Smiles:
Time on my hands 18. In a sentimental mood 19. Clowns in Clover: Don’t blame me 
20. Goin’ Home

![Art Tatum - All that Jazz, Vol. 142: Wizard on the Keys (2022) Hi-Res](https://
i0.wp.com/www.dibpic.com/uploads/posts/2022-03/1646796743_cover.jpg?resize=640%2C640&
ssl=1)

### _Related_