Mary Lou Williams in City of Kansas City - the 1930's
from Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It, pages 294-295:
…[A]t one place we ran into Art Tatum. Art had a radio program, also a job in a dicty private club, but preferred wailing after hours.
It was this place every night then. Whenever I wasn't listening to Tatum, I was playing--Art inspired me so much. Chords he was throwing in then, the boppers are using now. And his mind was the quickest.
Art usually drank a bottle of beer while the other pianists took over, and didn't miss a thing. For instance, there was a run that Buck Washington showed me. (Buck, of the Buck and Bubbles team, played a lot of piano, especially when … more >>
Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro, Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It (London, 1992), p. 294-295. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1435761826368 accessed: 18 September, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| jazz piano music | performed by Mary Lou Williams, Buck Washington, Art Tatum |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | the 1930's |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |