Art Tatum - Want It All

Art Tatum

10 CD + 1 DVD SET

This boxed set consists of 1 DVD and 10 CD's comprising 212 tracks and 12 1/2 hours of playing time. They range in date from early 1934 to mid-October 1956, only three weeks before Tatum's death. Almost all of the material here had never been previously available on CD and most tracks had never been issued in any form. CD 10, newly issued here, comprises 23 tracks, of which 21 were previously unissued. None of the tracks in this box was recorded in a studio for ultimate sale to the public. With the exception of some recordings made for the US government, they are all live performances, from a wide variety of sources, including off-the-air radio broadcasts, the audio portion of his limited TV appearances, private parties, night club perfomances, after-hours clubs, transcriptions, recordings in private homes (including his own), and tracks from pressings made gratis for the Voice of America, and for the US Armed Forces during WWII