Art Tatum: The Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces (Pablo, 1953-1956).

Pablo PABCD 4404-02 (1991). 

Art Tatum (piano solo). 

Disque 1: 

Radio Recorders (Hollywood, CA), 28 décembre 1953. 

1. Can't We Be Friends (Swift, James) 3:45

2. This Can't Be Love (Rodgers, Hart) 2:37

3. Elegy (Massenet) 3:35

4. Memories of You (Razaf, Blake) 4:48

5. Over the Rainbow (Arlen, Harburg) 3:42

6. If You Hadn't Gone Away (Brown, Rose, Henderson) 3:55

7. Body and Soul (Green, Heyman, Eyton, Sour) 5:50

8. The Man I Love (Gershwin, Gershwin) 4:28

9. Makin' Whoopee (Kahn, Donaldson) 2:46

10. September Song (Anderson, Weill) 4:09

11. Begin the Beguine (Cole Porter) 2:59

12. Humoresque (Dvorak) 3:56

13. Louise (Robin, Whiting) 5:00

14. Love for Sale (Porter) 4:40

15. Judy (Hoagy Carmichael) 3:47

16. I'm Comin' Virginia (Heywood, Cook) 3:35

17. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (Barris, Koehler, Moll) 3:42

18. Dixieland Band (Hanighen, Mercer) 3:06

Disque 2: 

(suite de la session)

1. Embraceable You (Gershwin, Gershwin) 4:30

2. Come Rain or Come Shine (Arlen, Mercer) 5:07

3. Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin' (Ellington, Strayhorn, Gaines) 3:57

4. There Will Never Be Another You (Gordon, Warren) 5:28

5. Tenderly (Lawrence, Gross) 5:05

6. What Does It Take (Burke, Van Heusen) 2:49

7. You Took Advantage of Me (Rodgers, Hart) 3:16

8. I've Got the World on a String (Arlen, Koehler) 3:55

9. Yesterdays (Kern, Harbach) 3:28

10. I Hadn't Anyone Till You (Ray Noble) 3:32

11. Night and Day (Porter) 3:14

12. Jitterbug Waltz (Thomas Waller) 3:47

13. Someone to Watch Over Me (Gershwin, Gershwin) 3:47

14. The Very Thought of You (Ray Noble) 4:28

15. You're Driving Me Crazy (Walter Donaldson) 2:38

16. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You (Young, Washington, Crosby) 4:11

Radio Recorders (Hollywood, CA), 29 décembre 1953. 

17. Stardust (Carmichael, Parish) 5:00

Disque 3: 

(suite de la session)

1. I Cover the Waterfront (Green, Heyman) 3:45

2. Where or When (Rodgers, Hart) 5:14

3. Stay as Sweet as You Are (Gordon, Revel) 5:06

4. Fine and Dandy (Swift, James) 3:02

5. All the Things You Are (Kern, Hammerstein) 6:00

6. Have You Met Miss Jones (Rodgers, Hart) 4:48

7. In a Sentimental Mood (Mills, Kurtz, Ellington) 6:02

8. I'll See You Again (Noel Coward) 4:52

9. I'll See You in My Dreams (Jones, Kahn) 3:16

10. Ill Wind (Koehler, Arlen) 5:18

11. Isn't This a Lovely Day (Irving Berlin) 3:32

12. Blue Skies (Berlin) 2:56

13. Without a Song (Youmans, Rose, Eliscu) 5:48

14. Stompin' at the Savoy (Goodman, Webb, Sampson, Razaf) 2:55

15. My Last Affair (Haven Johnson) 2:53

16. I'm in the Mood for Love (McHugh, Fields) 4:26

Disque 4: 

(suite de la session)

1. Taboo (Lecuona) 2:50

2. Would You Like to Take a Walk (Warren, Dixon, Rose) 4:13

3. I've Got a Crush on You (Gershwin, Gershwin) 3:35

4. Japanese Sandman (Whiting, Egan) 3:14

5. Too Marvelous for Words (Whiting, Mercer) 2:58

6. Aunt Hagar's Blues (Handy, Brymn) 4:52

7. Just Like a Butterfly That's Caught in the Rain (Woods, Dixon) 3:50

8. Gone with the Wind (Wrubel, Magidson) 3:01

9. Danny Boy (Fred Weatherly) 4:10

10. They Can't Take That Away from Me (Gershwin, Gershwin) 4:45

11. Tea for Two (Youmans, Caesar) 3:30

12. It's the Talk of the Town (Livingston, Symes, Neiburg) 3:40

13. Blue Lou (Sampson, Mills) 2:43

14. When a Woman Loves a Man (Mercer, Jenkins, Hanighen) 5:35

15. Willow Weep for Me (Anne Ronell) 4:32

16. Ain't Misbehavin' (Waller, Brooks, Razaf) 2:35

17. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Kern, Harbach) 3:53

18. Mighty Like a Rose (Nevin, Stanton) 6:06

Disque 5: 

Radio Recorders (Hollywood, CA), 22 avril 1954. 

1. Stars Fell on Alabama (Parish, Perkins) 5:56

2. Blue Moon (Rodgers, Hart) 5:00

3. There's a Small Hotel (Rodgers, Hart) 5:01

4. Caravan (Ellington, Tizol, Mills) 2:36

5. The Way You Look Tonight (Fields, Kern) 6:38

6. You Go to My Head (Coots, Gillespie) 4:55

7. Lover Come Back to Me (Romberg, Hammerstein) 6:45

8. Sophisticated Lady (Ellington, Parish, Mills) 3:35

9. Dancing in the Dark (Schwartz, Dietz) 4:30

10. Love Me or Leave Me (Kahn, Donaldson) 3:23

11. Cherokee (Ray Noble) 3:38

12. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) (Strachey, Marvell, Link) 4:50

13. Deep Purple (DeRose, Parish) 5:00

14. After You've Gone (Creamer, Layton) 4:00

15. I Didn't Know What Time It Was (Rodgers, Hart) 4:13

Disque 6: 

(suite de la session)

1. Somebody Loves Me (Gershwin, McDonald, Sylva) 3:49

2. What's New (Haggart, Burke) 4:32

3. Sweet Lorraine (Burwell, Parish) 4:21

4. Crazy Rhythm (Meyer, Kahn, Caesar) 2:55

5. Isn't It Romantic (Rodgers, Hart) 4:34

6. You're Blasé (Sievier, Hamilton) 4:57

7. You're Mine You (Green, Heyman) 4:52

8. Indiana (Back Home Again in Indiana) (Hanley, Donald) 3:03

9. That Old Feeling (Brown, Fain) 5:12

10. Heat Wave (Berlin) 3:17

11. She's Funny That Way (Whiting, Moret) 3:51

Radio Recorders (Hollywood, CA), 19 janvier 1955. 

12. I Surrender Dear (Barris, Clifford) 3:51

13. Happy Feet (Yellen, Ager) 2:36

14. Mean to Me (Turk, Ahlert) 2:56

15. Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Warren, Dubin) 5:19

16. Moonlight on the Ganges (Myers, Wallace) 2:14

17. Moon Song (Johnston, Coslow) 4:39

18. When Your Lover Has Gone (Swan) 3:38

19. The Moon is Low (Brown, Freed) 4:10

20. If I Had You (Shapiro, Campbell, Conelly) 4:10

Disque 7: 

(suite de la session)

1. S'posin' (Denniker, Razaf) 3:22

2. Don't Worry 'bout Me (Bloom, Koehler) 4:10

3. Prisoner of Love (Columbo, Robin, Gaskill) 4:17

4. Moonglow (Delange, Hudson, Mills) 2:54

5. I Won't Dance (Kern, McHugh, Hammerstein, Harbach, Fields) 2:57

6. I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Batholomew, Ridgley) 3:35

7. Lullaby of Rhythm (Goodman, Sampson, Profit, Hirsch) 3:09

8. Out of Nowhere (Heyman, Green) 3:45

9. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Arlen, Koehler) 3:54

10. It's Only a Paper Moon (Arlen, Rose, Harburg) 2:38

11. Everything I Have is Yours (Adamson, Lane) 5:44

12. I Only Have Eyes for You (Warren, Dubin) 2:48

13. On the Sunny Side of the Street (McHugh, Fields) 3:06

14. Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me (Ellington, Russell) 4:55

15. So Beats My Heart for You (Ballard, Henderson, Waring) 5:18

16. If You Hadn't Gone Away (Brown, Rose, Henderson) 4:05

17. Please Be Kind (Cahn, Chaplin) 5:06

Hollywood Bowl, 15 août 1956. 

18. Someone to Watch Over Me (Gershwin, Gershwin) 3:50

19. Begin the Beguine (Porter) 2:58

20. Willow Weep for Me (Anne Ronell) 3:44

21. Humoresque (Dvorak) 3:24

Enregistrements originaux produits par Norman Granz. 

Compilation produite par Eric Miller. 

Ingénieurs du son: Art Baker (Disque 2, 16-18; Disque 3; Disque 4, 1-14), Val Valentin, assisté de Rafael Valentin (toutes les autres sessions). 

Édité et transfers en digital par Danny Kopelson. 

Remasterisation digitale, 1991: Phil De Lancie (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley). 

Photographie: Phil Stern. 

Notes de pochette: Benny Green.