Steven Mayer - Improvisations

Art Tatum-Improvisations is a clever and completely appropriate bit of artist and repertoire marketing. Art Tatum (1909-1956) possessed perhaps the most complete and thorough knowledge of the Great American Songbook (and traditional classical music) and the most commanding piano technique of any American jazz artist. Anecdotal stories of his near-supernatural playing abound. With Art Tatum-Improvisations, the focus is not on the artist's original compositions, but his interpretations of other's compositions. This approach correctly casts improvisation as composition in real time, giving improvisation equal billing with composition.

1) Tea for Two
2) St. Louis Blues
3) Tiger Rag
4) Aunt Hagar's Blues
5) Humoresque
6) Sweet Lorraine
7) Get Happy
8) The Jitterbug Waltz
9) Tatum Pole Boogie
10) Cherokee
11) Lover Come Back to Me!
12) Elegy
13) Hallelujah
14) Willow Weep for Me
15) Emaline
16) Yesterdays
17) I Know That You Know