Arthur Tatum Jr. (/ˈteɪtəm/, 13 Oktober 1909 – 5 November 1956) adalah seorang pianis jazz Amerika. Tatum tumbuh di Toledo, Ohio, di mana ia mulai bermain piano secara profesional dan memiliki program radionya sendiri, disiarkan ulang secara nasional, saat masih remaja.
Referensi sunting
- Doerschuk, Robert. 88 – The Giants of Jazz Piano. hlm. 58.
'by consensus, the greatest jazz pianist who ever lived.' When Leonard Feather was compiling his Encyclopedia of Jazz in the mid-1950s, he polled a number of musicians about the players they themselves most admired on their respective instruments. More than two-thirds of the pianists surveyed put Tatum at the top of the list. Gene Lees conducted a similar poll thirty years later, and again Tatum dominated the results.
- Gioia, Ted. . Jazz.com. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal June 10, 2016. Diakses tanggal September 11, 2012.
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- Tatum's profile at NPR 2020-01-20 di Wayback Machine.
- 1955 radio broadcast by Voice of America, in which Willis Conover interviews Tatum