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OK - I was giving Paul a bad time, but. . .

. . . yes, I had heard the Tatum 1933 performance on YouTube too. So the way I hear it (and, I freely admit to only the most tangential knowledge of jazz playing and styles BTW), is that Tatum's original is a bit more agressive and slightly faster with some interesting voicings, while Yuja's slightly slower rendition is a bit more delicate, with way clearer textures - partly but not entirely the result of progress in sound recording over 75 years (which even comes through on YouTube!). I mean, seriously, is there only one proper way of doing it? I'd think an alternative way of playing it (like Yuja's) would be welcomed, not castigated.

And further: if the only thing that can be done when asserting the superiority of the Tatum performance is to appeal to some kind of amorphous idea that one pianist doesn't "get" it while another one does, then that's not a good enough explanation for me. Of course, as always in music, we're reduced to an inadequate linguistic shorthand when we all try to describe our musical experiences (one performance was fiery while another was phlegmatic, etc.), but I want at least an attempt at more than that when one performance is dismissed with such facile generalities. And that's just the word that applies in the absence of other supporting evidence.

BTW, I happen to be replying to your post, Josh, but my comments apply to what Paul wrote too - don't want you to feel you're getting all the brunt of my comments. ;-)


Edits: 08/22/12
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