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Hi,

I wanted to share with you a transcription that I made recently of Art Tatum's "Begin The Beguine".

http://collinatorstudios.com/tatum

enjoy!

-patrick

Amazing, thanks!

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Great article. In the 40's, Tatum also recorded for the V-Disc series, and recorded for the [Moses] Asch label.

I removed the following passage; the section in caps was posted by a newby, so it is probably an error rather than vandalism. I raise it here as the "images" referred to may not be the sequence in the Dorsey's biopic:

and a couple of other brief images in a non-descript documentary [PLEASE FIX AS SEVERAL MINUTES OF VIDEO OF ART TATUM CAN BE FOUND IN THE VIDEO DOCUMENTARY MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS THE BLUES].

Philip Cross 11:58, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Great improvising pianists ...

Imagine, if you will, a pianists' heaven. I can imagine Art Tatum and Charles Camille Saint-Saëns there, trying to outdo each other, with, amongst other things, outrageous runs up and down the keyboard!

Somehow I doubt that Saint-Saëns would want to jam with Tatum. — Mütze 21:27, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV?

Quite a few sentences like

To hear these recordings today is to marvel at the structure and interplay which are unequalled to this day.

Might be factual but doesn't carry that tone at all

[edit] YouTube links

This article is one of thousands on Wikipedia that have a link to YouTube in it. Based on the External links policy, most of these should probably be removed. I'm putting this message here, on this talk page, to request the regular editors take a look at the link and make sure it doesn't violate policy. In short: 1. 99% of the time YouTube should not be used as a source. 2. We must not link to material that violates someones copyright. If you are not sure if the link on this article should be removed or you would like to help spread this message contact us on this page. Thanks, ---J.S (t|c) 06:44, 8 November 2006 (UTC)