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Art Tatum: Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine

Read "Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
October 11, 2008

The Zenph recording technology will be the most important aspect in deciding whether you will give this Tatum album a spin, so here are the details; the engineers have taken Tatum's Piano Starts Here, a fifty year old live recording, and rerecorded it by digitized the music, capturing every single nuance from touch to pedal action, and recorded it again through a piano fashioned for the purpose, capturing in both stereo surround and binaural stereo. Thus the poor recording quality ...