i just saw this what is a program for an art tatum related event

http://zenph.com/pdf/Art%20Tatum%20Live%20...2023%202007.pdf



so that cd that was recently produced....THEY DID IT WITH AN AUDIENCE?!?!?? IT WASNT SOME STATE OF THE ART THING DONE IN A LAB OR WITH NO PEOPLE-- BUT THEY PRESENTED IT AS AN ACTUAL CONCERT?!?!

am i reading into this wrong?

HUH?

I have no idea what they did. What the hell is a "re-performance" ? A Victrola on stage? A corpse propped up at a piano? Dick Hyman doing Tatum? A player piano? A time machine?

Those must be the weirdest liner notes since Sun Ra. Or Harry Smith.

for the sake of brevity, copyright, and whatever, here's a link explaining the whole process, including audio and video clips: zenph studios

What's your beef with Dick Hyman? Electric Eclectics is one of thee greatest albums ever made.

Thanks jazzshrink. So it was a player piano - of sorts. Wild.

Teasing, I love Dick Hyman. I just picked him cuz he does such a great job of playing the old styles; his Jelly Roll Morton album on Columbia is one of my all time faves. Tho I don't mean to imply that I (or that he would himself) think he could "re-perform" Art Tatum. Maybe Oscar Peterson could have, but that would be covered in my second guess, after Victrola.

I hadn't heard of Electric Eclectics before. Ordinarily a title like that would put me off, but if it's by Dick Hyman, I might agree with your assessment. I'd certainly like to hear it - have to see if I can track it down.