Word: tatum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sits at the piano. He is a faucet, a river, a flood of music. His left hand pounds out sharp, staccato chords, and his right hand flies, hummingbird fast, up and down the keyboard. There is history here: the imaginative, intricate runs of Art Tatum, the restless romanticism of Bill Evans, and of course, the hot, insistent rhythms of Cuba. Valdes' set is frustratingly brief--he is exhausted from his travels--and he plays only one more tune. Afterward he is asked the name of his first number. He smiles and says, "Improvisacion...
Harry Connick Jr. has long viewed himself as something of a Sinatra for the '90s. Although he broke into jazz a decade ago as a solo pianist influenced by Bud Powell and Art Tatum, his career veered sharply toward big-band and string-arranged music after his 1989 sound track, When Harry Met Sally, went multi-platinum. When his version of the classic It Had to Be You--with Connick singing--became a hit, he began moving his repertoire closer toward pop, writing, as he did on 1991's Blue Light, Red Light, jaunty big-band tunes that echoed...
Army, meanwhile, without junior swingman and leading scorer George Tatum--lost to an aggravated groin injury--struggled all night to find an offensive rhythm, hitting only 24-of-62 as Harvard kept the Cadets under the 40 percent benchmark at 38.7 percent...
...Army was out of synch without Tatum in the lineup," said Harvard coach Frank Sullivan. "They were looking all night for someone to step upon the offense, and it's very hard to make that kind of adjustment...
Featuring an excellent backcourt composed of freshmen guards Babe Kwasniak and All-Patriot League candidate George Tatum, the Cadets are expected to play a slow-tempo, half-court game. Running an uncomplicated offense and defense, Army will hope to exploit its physical strength, as well as its excellent mental preparedness...