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Art Tatum discography and sessionography


jostber

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Hi,

Does anyone know if there is a complete Art Tatum discography and/or sessionography somewhere around the net or in print?

The Solo Masterpieces CD's are listed at French Amazon as released in October 2007. Are these new remasterings?

http://www.amazon.fr/Tatum-Solo-Masterpiec...6858&sr=1-2

The original releases seems to have been from 1990.

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Don't think there is any worthy Tatum discography on the net.

There was one discography (by Laubich and Ray Spencer) but I am afraid it's not available any more.

Doubt The Solo Masterpieces are new masterings. I'ld say they are straigth rereleases of the Pablo reissues.

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Got the Laubich/Spencer many moons ago. It's a very thorough work... though please note it dates from 1982, and hence it's not updated anymore. A couple of years ago I took the time to cross-check it with the discographical information from the Live Tatum series from Storyville, and IIRC there was some material not listed in Laubich/Spencer. And no CD listings, of course.

You still can find it reasonably priced second-hand in some internet stores:

Bookfinder search

No online discography, to my knowledge.

And I am with brownie regarding the possible new remastering for the Solo Masterpieces boxed set. I bet no new remastering has been used.

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The most complete discography I could find seems to be over at allmusic: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...iftxqy5ldse~T21

Could have loved to see a sessionography too. Thanks for the link to the Laubich book, I will check that out.

Does anyone know what session is on this one?

http://www.audiophileusa.com/item.cfm?record=52690

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  • 9 years later...

I know that Ray Spencer died awhile back. I exchanged a few emails with Arnold Laubich years ago. A 2001 NYT article described him as a retired real estate attorney.

Laubich told me there were some things he had in his collection that would remain unissued. I had a friend who evidently had dubs of some of them but he has since passed away.

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