Art Tatum
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican jazz pianist (1909-1956)
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Arthur Tatum Jr. was an American jazz pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever. From early in his career, fellow musicians acclaimed Tatum's technical ability as extraordinary.
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Arthur Tatum Jr. was an American jazz pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever. From early in his career, fellow musicians acclaimed Tatum's technical ability as extraordinary. Tatum also extended jazz piano's vocabulary and boundaries far beyond his initial stride influences, and established new ground through innovative use of reharmonization, voicing, and bitonality.
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United StatesCategory
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1909 to 1956 · aged 47
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