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The Tatum Group Masterpieces is a 1952 album by Art Tatum.

The album was conceived of and produced by Norman Granz. Granz, the founder of Clef Records (and later Verve Records), was also responsible for the Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts, at which all of the musicians on the album had performed.

The album provides an overview of Astaire's musical career, plus two original compositions by Oscar Peterson ("The Astaire Blues" and "The Second Astaire Blues"), and an informal Jam session. Astaire also demonstrates his tap dancing on three tracks.

Peterson spoke warmly of the sessions that produced The Astaire Story in his autobiography, co-written by Gene Lees.

Peterson noted that vocally, Astaire was not naturally attuned to Jazz phrasing, and that Astaire enjoyed playing the drums at home. Astaire gave each of the musicians on the album a gold identification braclet, inscribed 'With thanks, Fred A'. Ray Brown lost his bracelet, Alvin Stoller's was stolen, but Peterson wore his for the rest of his life.

A deluxe four LP box set was produced of The Astaire Story, in a strictly limited edition of 1384 copies, each one hand signed by Astaire and the artist David Stone Martin, who contributed original drawings and paintings to the album.

The Astaire Story won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."

Volume One

 * 1) "Blues in C" (Louie Bellson, Benny Carter, Art Tatum) – 7:58
 * 2) "Undecided" (Sid Robins, Charlie Shavers) – 4:50
 * 3) "Under a Blanket of Blue" (Jerry Livingston, Al J. Neiburg, Marty Symes) – 6:13
 * 4) "Blues in B Flat" (Bellson, Carter) – 5:43
 * 5) "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 5:25
 * 6) "Street of Dreams" (Victor Young, Sam M. Lewis) – 3:49
 * 7) "'S Wonderful" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:17
 * 8) "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 6:11
 * 9) "Old Fashioned Love" (James P. Johnson, Cecil Mack) – 4:57
 * 10) "(I'm Left With the) Blues in My Heart" (Carter, Irving Mills) – 5:55
 * 11) "My Blue Heaven" (Walter Donaldson, George Whiting) – 4:00
 * 12) "Hands Across the Table" (Jean Delettre, Mitchell Parish) – 3:41
 * 13) "You're Mine, You" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 5:09
 * 14) "Idaho" (Jesse Stone) – 4:12

Volume Two

 * 1) "Night and Day" (Cole Porter) – 6:08
 * 2) "I Won't Dance" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Dorothy Fields) – 3:27
 * 3) "In a Sentimental Mood" (Duke Ellington, Manny Kurtz, Irving Mills) – 4:58
 * 4) "The Moon Is Low" (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed) – 4:11
 * 5) "Moon Song" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) – 4:59
 * 6) "You Took Advantage of Me" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:33
 * 7) "This Can't Be Love" (Hart, Rodgers) – 3:48
 * 8) "I Surrender, Dear" (Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford) – 6:52
 * 9) "I Won't Dance" – 3:30
 * 10) "In a Sentimental Mood" – 4:57

Volume Three

 * 1) "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Porter) – 7:06
 * 2) "I'll Never Be the Same" (Gus Kahn, Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli) – 6:38
 * 3) "Makin' Whoopee" – 7:05
 * 4) "Hallelujah" (Clifford Grey, Leo Robin, Vincent Youmans) – 4:55
 * 5) "Perdido" (Ervin Drake, H. J. Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol) – 5:06
 * 6) "More Than You Know" (Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans) – 4:16
 * 7) "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) – 5:09
 * 8) "Hallelujah" – 5:17

Volume Four

 * 1) "This Can't Be Love" – 6:16
 * 2) "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins) – 5:36
 * 3) "Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) – 5:58
 * 4) "Prisoner of Love" (Russ Columbo, Clarence Gaskill, Leo Robin) – 6:07
 * 5) "Love for Sale" (Concept I) (Porter) – 9:36
 * 6) "Love for Sale" (Concept II) – 6:14
 * 7) "Body and Soul" (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green) – 5:21
 * 8) "Please Be Kind" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin) – 4:46
 * 9) "This Can't Be Love" – 5:49

Volume Five

 * 1) "Verve Blues" (Sweets Edison, Lionel Hampton, Tatum) – 12:47
 * 2) "Plaid" (Edison, Hampton, Tatum) – 6:41
 * 3) "Somebody Loves Me" (Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald) – 7:14
 * 4) "September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) – 7:05
 * 5) "Deep Purple" (Peter DeRose, Mitchell Parish) – 8:02
 * 6) "September Song" – 2:39
 * 7) "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Porter) – 7:41
 * 8) "What Is This Thing Called Love?" – 7:51

Volume Six

 * 1) "Just One of Those Things" (Porter) – 7:13
 * 2) "More Than You Know" – 3:37
 * 3) "Some Other Spring" (Arthur Herzog Jr., Irene Kitchings) – 4:46
 * 4) "If" (Stanley Damerell, Tolchard Evans, Robert Hargreaves) – 3:32
 * 5) "Blue Lou" (Mills, Edgar Sampson) – 3:03
 * 6) "Love for Sale" – 5:31
 * 7) "Isn't It Romantic?" (Hart, Rodgers) – 3:57
 * 8) "I'll Never Be the Same" – 4:54
 * 9) "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 3:40
 * 10) "Trio Blues" (Tatum) – 5:05

Volume Seven

 * 1) "Deep Night" (Charles E. Henderson, Rudy Vallée) – 5:47
 * 2) "This Can't Be Love" – 4:38
 * 3) "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) – 7:10
 * 4) "Once in a While" (Michael Edwards, Bud Green) – 5:13
 * 5) "A Foggy Day" – 3:24
 * 6) "Lover Man" – 6:38
 * 7) "You're Mine, You" – 7:01
 * 8) "Makin' Whoopee" – 3:37
 * 9) "Deep Night" – 5:50
 * 10) "Once in a While" – 5:05
 * 11) "This Can't Be Love" – 4:26

Volume Eight

 * 1) "Gone with the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 4:48
 * 2) "All the Things You Are" (Hammerstein, Kern) – 7:15
 * 3) "Have You Met Miss Jones?" (Hart, Rodgers) – 4:49
 * 4) "My One and Only Love" (Robert Mellin, Guy Wood) – 6:15
 * 5) "Night and Day" – 5:31
 * 6) "My Ideal" (Newell Chase, Leo Robin, Richard Whiting) – 7:18
 * 7) "Where or When" (Hart, Rodgers) – 6:28

Personnel
Recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, June 25, 1954, March 23-29, August 1, September 7, 1955, January 27, February 6, September 11, 1956:

Performance
Volume One: Volume Two: Volume Three: Volume Four: Volume Five: Volume Six: Volume Seven: Volume Eight:
 * Art Tatum - piano (all tracks)
 * Benny Carter - alto saxophone
 * Louie Bellson - drums
 * Roy Eldridge - trumpet, fugelhorn
 * John Simmons - double bass
 * Alvin Stoller - drums
 * Lionel Hampton - vibraphone
 * Buddy Rich - drums
 * Same personnel as Volume Three
 * Harry Edison - trumpet
 * Lionel Hampton - vibraphone
 * Barney Kessel - guitar
 * Red Callender - double bass
 * Buddy Rich - drums
 * Red Callender - double bass
 * Jo Jones - drums
 * Buddy DeFranco -clarinet
 * Red Callender - double bass
 * Bill Douglas - drums
 * Ben Webster - tenor saxophone
 * Red Callender - double bass
 * Bill Douglas - drums

Production

 * Gjon Mili - photography
 * Paul Nodler
 * David Stone Martin - cover art, drawings
 * Lowell Frank - engineer, mixing
 * Norman Granz - producer