Word: tatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia Brown" were the same red, white and blue uniforms which have gained them world-wide renown, as well as capacity crowds wherever they go, but as far as this crowd was concerned, the Globetrotters could have stayed in New York. Gone from the lineup was the showman Goose Tatum; gone from the floor was the remarkable dribbler Leon Hilliard--in short, the Globetrotters were just a basketball team, and not a show company...
...casual passerby, everything looked normal around the University of Maryland's treeless new Georgian campus at College Park last week. Fall classes had yet to begin, but in Byrd Stadium, Football Coach Jim Tatum ran his 54-man squad (Pennsylvania mining and mill-town boys outnumber the 19 home-state boys) through first practice with high hopes of repeating his undefeated 1953 season. But across campus, in an ornate, walnut-paneled office, the U. of M.'s new president, Wilson Homer Elkins, 46, held his first press conference. Said he casually: "I don't think that...
Bernard Peiffer et Son Trio (Norgran LP). French Pianoman Peiffer (rhymes with May fair) plays as playfully as Erroll Garner or George Shearing, occasionally as gaily as Tatum. Unoriginal, but pleasant listening...
...Genius of Art Tatum (Clef LP). Five recordings produced by Jazz Impresario Norman Granz in testimony of Tatum's famed skills. Pianist Tatum, 44 and nearly totally blind, can make any song sparkle with his dextrous, imaginative ideas. Spontaneously, he ripples off complex chords, melodic figures and moods that should make the most devoted Liberace fan cry with shame. Some of the 34 titles: The Man I Love, Body and Sold, Yesterdays, My Last Affair, This Can't Be Love, and I'm Coming, Virginia...
...Other popular blind pianists: Alec Templeton, Art Tatum, George Shearing, Lennie Tristano...