Art Tatum - Yesterdays (1954)

For more in-depth Art Tatum analysis, please visit Classic Jazz Arranging, here: The classic clip featuring Art Tatum performing live on the Spike Jones TV show from 1954 (shortly before his death). The only complete performance, as in live film footage, of Tatum that we currently have. If you would like to see Tatum’s hands in slow (as in poetry-in-) motion, I have uploaded a half-speed version so you can see how his hands are dancing, moving so beautifully physically in space: