Word: tatum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haircut. He knew a little English but said he had already learned the "Indian language" (uh-uh; uh-huh; huh). He knew all about U.S. jazz (he plays the piano, violin and banjo by ear). In Manhattan, Strand listened to Swingdom's blind piano player Art Tatum, his favorite, then went off reluctantly to California. But the Swedish speedster, a printer by trade, did not forget what he came over...
Doubting Divine. The fourth God-seeker was the Reverend Job Tatum, who had risen from the wrong side of the tracks to the pulpit of one of Manhattan's toniest churches. But on Easter Sunday, 1944, when Job intoned his text, "I am the Resurrection and the Life," none of the congregation (which included Gladys, Laura and Nick) knew that Job had suddenly realized that "he did not believe a word of what he was saying...
...without Problems. On his football record, Blanchard could have picked his college and named his terms. Although he had a sentimental feeling about Tulane, he finally decided on North Carolina-because Coach Jim Tatum was his mother's first cousin. When he became Pfc. Blanchard in the Army, little persuasion was needed to make him accept an appointment to West Point...
Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basic, Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Teschemacher. Decca has marketed such choice collections as Riverboat Jazz and Harlem Jazz, 1930. Asch has continued to record the jazz chamber music played in Manhattan's nightclubs by Mary Lou Williams and Art Tatum...
Jimmie recalls endless gin, playing variations on Tea for Two for days on end, jamming at Harlem's Rhythm Club with youthful Duke Ellington, Art Tatum and Fats Waller, writing a bale of tunes for Broadway producers. He was one of the first jazzmen to go on the air. ("In those days we never got paid-just pats on the back and promises. . . .") By the end of the '203, Jimmie's health had more holes than a piano roll, and he was ready for what he calls his "stormy days...