Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Standards. Toledo-born Art Tatum played his first professional engagement at 16 as a dance-band pianist. Two years later he left the band to go on his own as a soloist. "The other boys used to razz me," he says. "They said I had no left hand, so I made up my mind to show 'em." Tatum is still sensitive about criticism of his bass, but can claim, with the enthusiastic approval of his fans, that he does more with his left hand than most pianists do with both...
...Pianist Tatum sat at a corner table, his customary bottle of beer before him, and admitted he was tired of the grind of nightclub shows, sometimes thinks of retiring to his home in California with his wife and two Doberman pinschers. But as the intermission pianist swung into a chorus of Basin Street, he turned his head attentively. "He's got some good ideas," he said. "You can't create everything. You hafta listen to the other fella." His strong fingers flexed in an imaginary run. "I'm always tryin' new ideas. No matter...
...with inspired polyphony from George Brunis' trombone and Bill Davison's trumpet. Condon's rickety palace is no longer subject to such damage, with Bruins in Chicago; but the proprietor, operating as always with an eye for the main chance, has recouped his loss by promoting a remarkable young pianist...
Every hour on the hour he leaves his beer, turns out the stage lights, and addresses the piano. Hr begins every tune with a style just this side of Eddie Duchin, but infinitely more subtle; this pleasant music may last for as many as 32 bars before the cocktail pianist gives way to the ragtime revivalist. Sutton plays almost no ragtime "classics"--his entire repertoire consists of such out-of-context numbers like "Just One of Those Things," "The Way You Look Tonight," and "Body and Soul...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Pianist Jacques Abram...