@_jazz_daily_ on Instagram: "Art Tatum was a blind prodigy born with perfect pitch. Rachmaninoff said that if Art Tatum ever “decided to play serious music, (he) will be retiring”. Tatum picked out and played church hymns by the age of three, learned tunes from the radio and copied piano roll recordings his mother owned. His technique is marveled at by the best of classical pianists today; few can play his transcriptions, much less improvise something that resembles it. In my opinion this is one