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Documentary: 'Art Tatum: The Art of Jazz Piano'

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Marc Myers
Oct 11, 2023
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The most important jazz pianist of the 20th Century was blind on eye and had only partial vision in the other. Born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1909, Art Tatum pioneered a new piano approach that was both astonishing and impossible to duplicate. In the beginning, Jelly Roll Morton and James P. Johnson and Willie "the Lion" Smith were among the first to break fr…

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