Art Tatum :: Tenderly
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Song of the Day - “Tenderly”
70 years ago today, December 29th, 1953, the brilliant piano man Art Tatum had an impressive recording session.
Tatum, who was universally seen as a genius pianist, never seemed to have a successful career commercially. He always worked, and is cited by most every other piano player of the era as being a teacher and an inspiration. But he just never had a career commensurate with that stature.
Tatum also had a terribly unhealthy lifestyle, drinking vast quantities of beer while only exercising enough to get himself from one club to the next. By 1953, Tatum’s kidneys had started to fail.
But the smart impresario producer Norman Granz decided to do right by Tatum, by at least immortalizing him forever on record. He signed Tatum to one of his labels, Clef Records, and on December 29th, 1953, booked Tatum a studio, open-endedly, put a few cases of Pabst on ice, and told Tatum he wanted to record his entire repertoire… or really just whatever the heck Tatum felt like putting down. Tatum obliged with recording an astonishing sixty-nine acceptable tracks - by midday.
One of the tracks was this one, “Tenderly”, which was composed as a waltz by Water Gross, a pianist and a conductor at CBS Radio in the 30s and 40s. Years later, the lyricist Jack Lawrence added the lyrics. But Gross always said the song was meant as “pianistic” and that Tatum’s performance of it was/is the ultimate interpretation ever.
This is classic Art Tatum, who really may indeed “own” “Tenderly”…
The album Granz made out of this day of tracks recorded, was titled “Tenderly”… and the whole album is sublime, all standards… each one outdoing the last… On the other tracks, Granz added in sidefolk - some drums and bass… But “Tenderly” needed none…
[Thanks to Mary Elaine LeBey]
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Also Tom Cruise: Oh but I must touch his hand and hug him.
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"Your voice, your eyes, your hands, your lips
Our silence, our words
Light that goes, light that returns
A single smile between us
In quest of knowledge I watched night create day
Oh beloved of all, beloved of one alone
Your mouth silently promised to be happy
Away, away, says hate
Closer, closer, says love
A caress leads us from our infancy
Increasingly I see the human form as a lovers’ dialog
The heart has but one mouth
Everything by chance
All words without thought
Sentiments adrift
A glance, a word, because I love you
Everything moves
We must advance to live
Aim straight ahead towards those you love
I went toward you, endlessly toward the light
If you smile, it enfolds me all the better
The rays of your arms pierce the mist”
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"La tua voce, i tuoi occhi, le tue mani, le tue labbra
Il nostro silenzio, le nostre parole
Luce che va, luce che ritorna
Un solo sorriso tra di noi
Alla ricerca della conoscenza ho osservato la notte creare il giorno
Oh amato da tutti, amato da uno solo
La tua bocca in silenzio prometteva di essere felice
Via, via, dice l'odio
Più vicino, più vicino, dice l'amore
Una carezza ci accompagna fin dalla nostra infanzia
Vedo sempre più la forma umana come un dialogo tra amanti
Il cuore ha una sola bocca
Tutto per caso
Tutte parole senza pensiero
Sentimenti alla deriva
Uno sguardo, una parola, perché ti amo
Tutto si muove
Dobbiamo avanzare per vivere
Punta dritto verso chi ami
Andavo verso di te, incessantemente verso la luce
Se sorridi, mi avvolge ancora meglio
I raggi delle tue braccia squarciano la nebbia”
- Paul Eluard
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It really should be said that Studio Triggers desire to only do what they want has always led them down the right path
no I don't care about Franxx it's not real it can't hurt me
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strangely, there's nobody else around
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