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In Reply to: You probably know about Tatum and Horowitz posted by Paul_A on August 23, 2012 at 16:46:57:
That's a great story about Horowitz. I didn't know he and Tatum were friends, although I know that Horowitz expressed his admiration for him, along with most of the other great pianists of the time.
I've read some of the stories of other jazz musicians coming across Tatum. I can't say I blame them for being intimidated. He was head and shoulders above everybody else. I love the stories too about the aspiring musicians who heard his recordings for the first time, and assumed they must be a trick, with two pianists playing.
I know what you mean about warming up to Tatum. I'd always loved Fats Waller, who's music is so infectious it delights immediately. When I first heard Tatum, my reaction was much like yours -- I was impressed by his virtuosity, but found his riffs off putting. They seemed almost to get in the way of the music. It was only gradually that I discovered the genius in his treatments and started to delight in them. Maybe I would have done so sooner, but jazz wasn't my main thing: I was very familiar with rock and classical, but while my father was a jazz buff and I had a friend who played stride piano and was a big fan of Oscar Peterson, it had never been my focus.
I do like to think that anyone with a good musical ear will come to appreciate Tatum as we did.
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