In Reply to: Seriously? posted by Analog Scott on August 22, 2012 at 21:12:24:
I'm familiar with Tatum's other versions of "Tea for Two." The one for which I posted the URL is just the one that happened to come up when I did a Google search for Chris.
Yuja Wang's rhythms are wrong, and where they aren't wrong, they're unsophisticated. My initial reaction was that she thinks she's playing some kind of waltz. After that, that she misses the subtleties of Tatum's rhythmic inflections. What you apparently hear as "rhythmic issues" are Tatum's characteristic syncopations. A lesser pianist can't hope to imitate those, or Tatum's technique.
You can't judge these interpretations, either Wang's or Tatum's, with a classical ear. They aren't classical works. Perhaps the best way to describe her performance is to say she speakers jazz as a second language. Her performance is classically accented, a phonemic approximation in the manner of a non-native speaker, and it doesn't work.
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