Art Tatum - Tiger Rag 1933 (Classic Jazz / Stride Piano Synthesia): The Hardest & Fastest Stride/Rag

Tiger Rag as played by Art Tatum.

Wikipedia:
Arthur Tatum Jr. was an American jazz pianist.

Tatum grew up in Toledo, Ohio, where he began playing professionally and had his own radio program, rebroadcast nationwide, while still in his teens. He left Toledo in 1932 and had residencies as a solo pianist at clubs in major urban centers including New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Throughout his career, Tatum also played for long periods at night in after-hours venues – at which he was often more spontaneous and creative than in his paid-for performances – and drank enormous quantities of alcohol. Although drinking did not negatively affect his playing, it did damage his health. In the 1940s, Tatum led a commercially successful trio for a short time and began playing in more formal jazz concert settings, including at Norman Granz-produced Jazz at the Philharmonic events. Granz recorded Tatum extensively in solo and small group formats in the mid-1950s, with the last session occurring only two months before the pianist's death from uremia at the age of 47.

Tatum is widely regarded as one of the greatest jazz pianists. His playing encompassed everything that had come before, added great harmonic and rhythmic imagination and complexity, and was often at very high speed. He extended what was considered possible in jazz piano and established new ground in jazz more broadly through innovative use of reharmonization, voicing, and bitonality.

This video quote:
"Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left." - Art Tatum

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[xris]

One time in NYC, I took a cab with my instrument case in hand. Got talking music with the driver, . He played jazz himself. He asked who I was listening to most lately. I said Tatum. He turned off the meter and said "You ride for free!"

[masterbetty]

Probably his most insane performance ever. I heard somewhere that during the time he met James P Johnson and Fats Waller for the first time he played this tune and they were both just blown away. I believe James was even a little bit jealous at how good Art was.

[E-Man]

When I say he has more piano playing talent in his little finger than in some people’s whole body, it’s very literal.

[mistermusturd]

i've heard it my whole life but have never seen it before today, i'm in tears. Bravo!

[sirpizza]

Glad you reuploaded this one. This classic is so dang flipping difficult🤣

[roroutube]

I literally prayed hoping this would get uploaded. Man that cat was good.

[hazmaticx]

you should do one for art tatums yesterdays, hopefully his live footage one

[benyjomusic]

One might need to practice one passage per month 😢

[KendalljazzYT]

I’ve played almost all of Chopin’s etudes and this is definitely harder than all of them

[callmeqwerty]

i think razor blades by tom brier can rival the difficulty

[gusemiester]

Any chance you could do some Johnny Costa?

[Plagolago]

Bruh I can barely play marry had a little lamb