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- United States jazz pianist who was almost completely blind; his innovations influenced many other jazz musicians (1910-1956)
How To Use Art Tatum In A Sentence
- Tall, imposing and with a sonorous speaking voice, Mark was gifted with many talents, but he always knew -- since he heard Art Tatum as a kid -- that he was a jazzer. Melody Breyer-Grell: Conversation With Mark Murphy -- The Last Word in Vocal Jazz?
- Nearly all the major jazzmen tried swinging or reinventing the classics, and a few in particular — such as John Kirby, Art Tatum, John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet — made a specialty of it. Masters and Young Bloods