{"id":10255,"date":"2010-04-24T02:09:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T07:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10255"},"modified":"2010-03-30T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T17:44:07","slug":"jacks-joey-art-tatum-meeting-the-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10255","title":{"rendered":"Jacks, Joey &#8211; Art Tatum: Meeting the Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youcallmechild.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/arttatum1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"arttatum1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/arttatum1.jpg\" alt=\"arttatum1\" width=\"242\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Art Tatum &#8211; Meeting the Kings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those of you out there who don&#8217;t know your jazz masters as well as you should, this is an excellent introduction to Art Tatum.\u00c2\u00a0 His name hasn&#8217;t survived as well as some (like Coltrane, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk), but he was an acknowledged master at the time.\u00c2\u00a0 This mini recounts the first time some legends of Harlem heard Art, and how they were able to recognize the prescence of greatness almost at once.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, some of this might be creative license, but it&#8217;s hard to imagine the greats hearing this guy and NOT thinking that they were hearing something completely different.\u00c2\u00a0 Joey breaks down the specifics far better than I could, and does an excellent job of transforming music into images.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re at all curious about this kind of music Art Tatum wouldn&#8217;t be a bad place to start, and this comic wouldn&#8217;t be a bad intro to all of it.\u00c2\u00a0 No price, so let&#8217;s say $2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/arttatum2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"arttatum2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/arttatum2-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"arttatum2\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Art Tatum &#8211; Meeting the Kings For those of you out there who don&#8217;t know your jazz masters as well as you should, this is an excellent introduction to Art Tatum.\u00c2\u00a0 His name hasn&#8217;t survived as well as some (like Coltrane, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk), but he was an acknowledged master at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1338,2947,2946],"class_list":["post-10255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-art-tatum","tag-joey-jacks","tag-meeting-the-kings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10256,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/revisions\/10256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}