Arthur Tatum May 2026

The story of is that of a man who moved so fast and with such complexity that he made even the greatest musicians in history question their own ears. Born Arthur Tatum Jr. in Toledo, Ohio in 1909, he spent his life in a world of shadows, legally blind due to severe cataracts. Yet, through those shadows, he saw music in a way no one else could—as a "harmonic earthquake" that redefined what was possible on eighty-eight keys. The Sound of Two Men (With Only Two Hands)