On the Playlist 16AUG2018…

Art Tatum - Piano Starts Here Zenph reperformance. An early 19th Century Jazz Piano virtuoso. This album is a very interesting one as it is a reperformance. When I lived in North Carolina I met the founder of Zenph Studios, John Walker. He invented a technology that would analyze old recordings and create a digital file of the notes played including a myriad of different parameters about the notes. This digital file could then be played back to a modern Yamaha Diskclavier Pro piano for a "reperformance" of the original piece of music as played by the original artist. I visited his studio in Durham and it was quite amazing to see a piano playing this music from a digital file and playing it identically to how it was originally played and recorded over 70 years ago. So this recording is a modern recording of music that was originally played and recorded back in the 30s. 

Here is a link to a story on NPR about it.

Art Tatum - Piano Starts Here Live at the Shrine - Zenph reperformance