I've never heard this broadcast before, this made my day as someone that listens to Tatum every day. Thank you!

This is a masterful interview of arguably the greatest jazz pianist who ever lived! Very inspiring.

Man so sad he passed the following year.  Once in a lifetime genius.

The man was from another planet.

Art Tatum,
The Greatest Piano Player in the history of Jazz.

always nice to hear to the mister master monster Tatum

Fantastic to hear the great one speaking ...

Art "Cant Imi Tatum" The GOAT

Loved this guy for 50 yrs. I knew he was genius-nice to hear the voice behind that genius. Priceless!

i wish i could of heard the playing too even though i heard those songs a bunch by him i like the vintage radio quality.

Having listened to this remarkable genius for more years than.i care to remember.i feel that the most womdrous part of his prodigious output is his ability.to.seemingly. interrupt the flow of the.tune with those amazimg rhythmic  cascades of techmicall virtuosity without destroying.the progress of the whole piece.
Never heard anything quite like it since.my pianistic hero of all time

Great always Art Tatum🎼🎶🎹🍇🇺🇸Gregory Baranovsky.

Brilliant insight indeed from a true Gentleman

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Love that voice.

The host is right about Elegie being maybe his finest solo record. His version on the California Melodies record is insane

Holy Moly!  Art Tatum!

superb. thanx for posting.

Man....Art T. claimed he could replay his various solos note for note, his musical memory was that good. I heard Jordan Rudess (keyboardist for Dream Theater) once explain that he relies heavily on sheet music, and can sight read very well. One of his qualms with classical performing and training at the Berkeley School was that they don't want you to rely on sheet music, but remembering the compositions just didn't work for Rudess. Meanwhile, he expressed his admiration for John Petrucci's "musical memory", whereby he had everything stored in his head. It's a very interesting phenomena how great musicians process musical information differently, and how varied their gifts and capabilities are, even at a master level.

4 hours of recording, cutting 100 sides, 2  retakes only. That says it all!