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Art Tatum
Arthur "Art" Tatum, Jr. (, October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist.
Tatum is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time,〔Robert Doerschuk, ''88 – The Giants of Jazz Piano'', p. 58 "by consensus, the greatest jazz pianist who ever lived." When Leonard Feather was compiling his Encyclopedia of Jazz in the mid-1950s, he polled a number of musicians about the players they themselves most admired on their respective instruments. More than two-thirds of the pianists surveyed put Tatum at the top of the list. Gene Lees conducted a similar poll thirty years later, and again Tatum dominated the results.〕 and was a major influence on later generations of jazz pianists. He was hailed for the technical proficiency of his performances, which set a new standard for jazz piano virtuosity. Critic Scott Yanow wrote, "Tatum's quick reflexes and boundless imagination kept his improvisations filled with fresh (and sometimes futuristic) ideas that put him way ahead of his contemporaries."〔Scott Yanow and Michael Erlewine (1998) ''The All Music Guide To Jazz, 3rd edition'', p. 1074, The author adds: "Art Tatum's recordings still have the ability to scare modern pianists."〕
==Life and career==
For a musician of such stature, there is little published information available about Tatum's life. Only one full-length biography has been published, ''Too Marvelous for Words'' (1994), by James Lester.〔James Lester (1994) ''Too Marvelous for Words: The Life and Genius of Art Tatum'', Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-509640-1〕 Lester interviewed many of Tatum's contemporaries for the book and drew from many articles published about him.
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