[JPL] Anyone playing the Tatum computer recreated CD? Opinions?

[Jim Wilke]

Arturo,

I'm playing it and I think it's marvelous!  It's a very interesting  
process, one that captures the nuances of Tatum's playing from his  
own recordings, not just the notes, but the attack, pedaling, etc.  
and then plays them back ON A PIANO.    It's a computer/machine,  
yes,  but it's a machine that has been in effect programmed by Art  
Tatum to sound exactly like he plays.    If you compare these re- 
recordings with the 1933 & 1949 originals from which they're taken  
everything is the same except the sound quality.  It's like being at  
the studio or concert and taking your earmuffs off.    If he were  
making records today, this is what it would sound like.  I don't have  
a problem with that.

Jim


On Jun 27, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Arturo Gomez wrote:

>
> I am sure many Jazz Week panel members have received a Zenph
> "re-performance" CD of Art Tatum which takes the Shrine Auditorium  
> sessions
> of Tatum and recreates them through computer in both surround sound  
> and
> binuaral stereo versions. They recorded it at the Shrine Auditorium  
> in front
> of a live audience and plaing the piano in the same spot where  
> Tatum played
>
> I consider it to be a computerized player piano and not the real deal,
> obviously.
>
> Arturo
>