tracks 2-12, 2-13 alto saxophone Payton Laguere
tracks 2-12, 2-13 alto saxophone Skeets Herfurt
tracks 1-15 to 1-20 bass Clinton Nordquist
tracks 2-12, 2-13 bass Jud Denaut
tracks 1-9 to 1-14, 1-21, 2-1 to 2-4 bass Slam Stewart
tracks 2-12, 2-13 clarinet Murray McEachern
consultant, coordinator Arnold Laubich
design Pearce Marchbank
tracks 2-8 drums Specs Powell
engineer [dvd engineered by] Henrik Madsen
engineer [engineered by] Hans Nielsen
engineer [engineered by] Jørgen Vad
tracks 1-15 to 1-20 guitar Calvin Gooden
tracks 1-15 to 1-20 guitar Les Paul
tracks 2-12, 2-13 guitar Les Paul
tracks 2-8 guitar Remo Palmieri
tracks 1-9 to 1-14, 1-21, 2-1 to 2-4 guitar Tiny Grimes
liner notes Arnold Laubich
liner notes Felicity Howlett
liner notes Loren Schoenberg
liner notes Mike Hennessey
photography by [box front, pages 22-23, 30-31] Unknown Artist
photography by [pages 2, 4-5, 6-7, 10-11, 12-13, 16-17, 26, 37] Duncan Schiedt
photography by [pages 8-9, 14-15, 34-35] Ken Whitten
piano Art Tatum
producer Anders Stefansen
tracks 2-12, 2-13 tenor saxophone Babe Russin
tracks 2-12, 2-13 trombone Bob McReynolds
tracks 2-12, 2-13 trombone Les Jenkins
tracks 2-12, 2-13 trombone Murray McEachern
tracks 2-12, 2-13 trombone Ray Conniff
tracks 2-12, 2-13 trumpet Bob Goodrich
tracks 2-12, 2-13 trumpet Gene LaFreniere
tracks 2-12, 2-13 trumpet Philip Candreva
tracks 2-13 vocals Jack Martin
tracks 2-13 vocals Martha Stewart
tracks 2-13 vocals The Mel-Tones
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This boxed set consists of 10 CD and one DVD comprising 212 tracks and 12½ hours of playing time. They range in date from early 1934 to mid-October 1956, only three weeks before Tatum’s death. None of the tracks in this box was recorded in a studio for ultimate sale to the public. With the exception of some recordings made for the U.S. government, they are all live performances, from a wide variety of sources, including off-the-air radio broadcasts, the audio portion of his limited TV appearances, private parties, night club performances, after-hours clubs, transcriptions, recordings in private homes (including his own), and tracks from pressings made gratis for the Voice of America, and for the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II. 212 tracks, including Valse In C # Minor, Opus 64, #2.

The first nine CDs, CD 1 - CD 9, were issued individually by Storyville during 2002-05. The DVD and the compilation on CD 10 were previously unissued.

DVD is coded for DVD Zone 2, though unmarked as such, and is not playable on DVD players restricted to Zone 1 or Zones 3-8. DVD clips are in the clips original NTSC format.

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